‘Technological me’: young children’s use of technology across their home and school contexts

Research into children’s learning with digital technologies is represented by a growing body of literature examining the relationship between home–school technological practices. A focus of this work is on the notion of a ‘digital-disconnect’ between home and school. This argument suggests that children are such native users of technologies they struggle to connect with commonly used technologies in school. This paper examines how the ‘digital-disconnect’ is experienced in children’s lives. Drawing on a data set investigating the digital experiences of 12 children aged 2–12 years, we consider the experiences of one family attending the same school. Three siblings aged 5–12 years recorded their home and school technology use for one week. The findings suggested some difference in use across both settings, but also similarities associated with information retrieval, rote learning and entertainment. We use Bulfin and North’s and Dyson’s ideas about the permeability of social boundaries to explain why technology use might be more similar than disconnected in each context. We consider the extent to which each setting influences the other as the basis for moving away from binary conceptualisations of the digital-disconnect informed by generational assumptions about children and technologies.     

探讨双语教育的新形式——以中央民族大学“北京蒙古语言文化班”为例

本文以对中央民族大学学生创办的蒙古语言文化班（培训班）为个案,分析蒙古语言文化班作为双语教育的模式,是在民族区域外的双语教育实验。双语教育是有争议而且受国内关注的话题之一。在提倡多元文化的社会背景下,研究探讨＂双语教育＂对于安定团结构建和谐社会具有重大的意义。     

一类非线性系统的广义预测控制

对于时延的非线性系统,将其等价为含有纯滞后的时变线性系统,利用三次样条函数逼近时变参数,利用渐消记忆递推最小二乘法在线辨识多项式的参数以实现时变参数估计,将基于Hammerstein模型的非线性系统线性化.最后运用广义预测控制策略实现对该系统的仿真,结果表明被控对象在广义预测控制算法的控制下系统闭环稳定性好、稳态误差小.     

More library materials budget justifications

In the Winter 1990 issue of BRQ, Frederick C. Lynden outlined a strategy for justifying library materials budgest based on his experience at Brown University. Albert Henderson elaborates on this process by offering three additional arguments to justify increased funding at research libraries. These arguments are based on the accelerating publication rate, the shrinking of library budgets as a percentage of GNP, and the consequences for research of inadequate library holdings. Albert Henderson, presidents of Henderson Associates is a consultant to scholarly and professional publishers. He was previously an editor with Johnson Reprint and vice-president for marketing and production with Pergamon Press.     

"五四"作家与佛教

“五四”作家之近佛是一个普遍而又特殊的文化现象,它既有深刻的社会历史,政治文化以及文学方面的原因,亦与传统价值系统的解体密切相关,近佛一方面使“五四”作家入世不忘出世,积极中隐含着消极,另一方面佛教中的自贵其心、不依他人的精神追求,静观默照,直觉顿悟的禅宗思维以及明智通达,理而有情的慈悲境界对他们的人格塑造,文化创造产生了积极的影响。     

‘Trying to decide … what sort of teacher I wanted to be’: mentoring as a dialogic practice

Mentoring of pre-service teachers in school contexts is acknowledged as an important part of initial teacher education. However, finding sufficient school-based professional experience placements for pre-service teachers, ensuring the quality of the learning experiences provided by such placements, and gaining a clear understanding of what teachers actually learn during placements continue to be of concern to all involved in this component of teacher education. In this paper, three interconnected perspectives are provided as a university-based teacher educator, a school-based teacher educator and a pre-service teacher learn together in a dialogic mentoring relationship. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Valentin Voloshinov is employed to theorise the nature of dialogic relationships and how such relationships differ from ‘having a conversation’.