Ways with Visual Languages: Making the Case for Critical Media Literacy

Teaching is a stressful profession. The causes are many but solutions are available to help the teacher cope. The author offers thirteen practical suggestions to manage stress.     

浅议高校采访馆员的素养

采访馆员的素养高低直接影响着资源建设质量.从采访馆员的任职资格、专业素养、必备技能、文化修养等方面入手,讨论了采访馆员的个人修养,并提出了提升采访馆员素养的途径与方法.     

Exploring the Cautionary Attitude Toward Wikipedia in Higher Education: Implications for Higher Education Institutions

This article presents the research findings of a small-scale study which aimed to explore the cautionary attitude toward the use of Wikipedia in the process of learning. A qualitative case study approach was taken, using literature review, institutional documentation, and semi-structured interviews with five members of academic teaching staff from a UK Business School. Analysis found the reasons for the cautionary attitude were due to a lack of understanding of Wikipedia, a negative attitude toward collaborative knowledge produced outside academia, and the perceived detrimental effects of the use of Web 2.0 applications not included in the university suite.     

Science Re-Imagined

Adam Bly, founder and director of Seed Media Group, describes the potential of science to improve the state of the world. But for the potential of science to be realized, it must be integrated into society after two preconditions have been met: science literacy must be aimed at creating seven billion scientifically literate people, and we must move from closed to open science. For the first, society needs to change the way it engages with science; engaging through culture and ideas has been a goal of Seed Media Group. For the second, there must be a mandated free flow of information; peer review must be reinvented; and scientific publishing needs to be removed from the hands of publishers and put in the hands of society.     

Negotiation,embeddedness, and non-threatening learning environments as themes of science and language convergence for English language learners

In this review, we explore the notion of teaching science to English language learners (ELLs) as a balancing act between simultaneously focusing on language and content development, on the one hand, and between structuring instruction and focusing on student learning processes, on the other hand. This exploration is conducted through the lens of a theoretical framework embedded in the Science Writing Heuristic approach, an approach exemplifying immersive orientation to argument-based inquiry. Three learning processes (learning through the language of science, learning about the language of science and living the language of science) and three classroom structures (collective zone of proximal development, symmetric power and trust relationships and teacher as decision-maker) are explored in relation to learning theories and empirical findings from second language acquisition and science, multicultural and teacher education bodies of work. Three themes – negotiation, embeddedness and non-threatening learning environments – to inform ELL science education emerged from the review.     

Creativity through a rhetorical lens: implications for schooling,literacy and media education

This article, which is speculative in outlook and emerges from an extended literature review on this subject, takes as its basic premise the notion that the idea of ‘creativity’– whether in relation to literacy, schooling or the economy, is constructed as a series of rhetorical claims. These rhetorics of creativity emerge from the contexts of research, theory, policy and practice. Initially, we distinguish 10 rhetorics, which are described in relation to the philosophical or political traditions from which they spring. The discussion then focuses on four rhetorics – play, technology, politics/democracy and the creative classroom – which have most relevance for understandings of literacies and the way in which these are nurtured, encouraged and expressed in different social settings. This article aims to summarise the rhetorics and their major concerns, while considering how selected ones might apply to an instance of media literacy. Key questions addressed in this article ask whether creativity is more usefully understood as an internal cognitive function or an external cultural phenomenon; whether it is a ubiquitous human activity or a special faculty; whether it is necessarily ‘pro‐social’ or should be dissident; and what the implications of a culturalist social psychological approach to creativity might be for analyses of the media literacy of children and young people.     

论数字化学习对信息素质的要求

本文分析了数字化学习较之传统的学习模式所具有的四大优势,研究了数字化学习在教育、技术、资源和人文四个方面对信息素质提出的要求,指出了适应数字化学习在信息意识、信息技能、信息道德三方面必须具备的能力。     

STEAM教育视角下教师素养及提升路径研究

STEAM教育在国内正风起云涌，各类STEAM课程正在如火如荼地进行中，但是国内各学校保证STEAM教育有效实施的教师相对缺乏，师资力量供不应求。为推进STEAM教育的持续与系统化建设，需要建设专业教师队伍，这要求教师具备相应的能力素养。通过文献研究法归纳出STEAM教育视角下的教师素养，包括迁移与整合知识技能、组织与协调科研、弘扬与贯彻立德树人、过程化的教育评价等素养，进而提出规范指导规划、组织岗前培训、开展校企合作等路径，以提高教师能力素养，为STEAM师资建设提供理论依据。     

转型变革背景下高校图书馆发展趋势研究——基于2012-2018版《ACRL高校图书馆发展大趋势报告》的解读与分析

[目的/意义]对2012年至2018年的4份ACRL《高校图书馆发展大趋势报告》进行对比和分析，希望为促进国内高校图书馆的转型发展提供参考。[方法/过程]重点解读《高校图书馆发展大趋势报告：2018版》中的出版商与数据库商发展新趋势、虚假新闻与信息素养、图书馆项目管理方法、教科书的支付能力与开放教育资源、学习分析和数据收集与伦理问题、研究数据采集和文本挖掘与数据科学、馆藏管理等七大发展趋势。[结果/结论]提出借鉴国外先进经验、制定中国版图书馆发展趋势报告、加强数字素养教育、关注信息伦理问题、探索循证采购模式等建议。