Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning

This article, derived from a three-year ethnography of distributed medical education provision in a Canadian university, explores the ways in which information and communication technologies are used by teachers and students in their everyday work within technologically rich teaching environments. The environments being researched are two university campuses: a campus at the main university site and a satellite campus in a neighbouring province. The article seeks to contrast dominant, institutional discourses of technology use in higher education teaching with the everyday practices of staff and students. The article concludes that there is a gap between policy and practice in distributed education and that the teaching and learning experience and context of staff and students in different sites need to be analysed in depth, in terms of: whether the experience of learning across sites can be positioned as being comparable; the extent to which technology ameliorates learning and teaching; and understanding the work done by staff.     

光素数地址码互相关特性数学分析

围绕OCDMA系统的重要地址码类型——光素数地址码的结构模型,根据有限Galois域上的线性全等理论,系统分析了基本素数码、扩展素数码、修正素数码的互相关特性,指出码字中“1”位的重叠区域.具体给出基本素数码最大互相关为2、扩展素数码和修正素数码最大互相关为1的数学证明,并给出完整的的素数码相关性分析过程.在此基础上,计算基本素数码和扩展素数码的信号干扰比以及多址干扰误码率,并比较基于不同素数码的OCDMA系统的误码性能,给出定量比较结果.     

西方对影响幼儿良心发展因素研究述评

良心作为一种重要的社会情感,在许多化习俗中被广泛地作为道德教化的重要目标,它在个体的道德化和社会化过程中发挥重要作用。对此,西方学进行了大量的研究,得出了许多有价值的结论。章综述了良心的内涵;影响幼儿良心发展的因素,诸如,父母在幼儿良心发展中的作用,气质差异和性别差异对良心发展的影响;主动顺从、自我控制、年龄等个性特质和良心发展的关系,在此基础上,提出了未来的研究取向。     

浅谈中西传统建筑文化差异

人创造建筑,建筑影响人。人与建筑相互影响。从建筑的材料来说明人与建筑和环境的关系,中国的“神韵”魅力和西方的“神性”追求是两种文化、历史与社会背景的不同。     

Parent-teacher conference communication: a guide to integrating family engagement through simulated conversations about student academic progress

Abstract

Teachers regularly communicate with families, yet few candidates are well-prepared for this professional activity. This gap can hinder family–school partnership and pupils’ success. Given that candidates’ opportunities to learn about family engagement (FE) depends on the decisions and values of individual teacher educators, we illustrate how FE can be integrated into an existing educator preparation programme. Specifically, we describe how to design and use simulated parent–teacher conferences (PTCs) to: foster candidates’ conference communication skills; assess their understanding of content knowledge and their ability to plan instruction. Specifically, we designed two simulation tasks that required candidates’ to analyse and respond to a given student assessment profile and then share their interpretation of the information in ways that developed parent–teacher partnership. Modelled after simulation-based medical education, we describe three steps teacher educators can take to integrate simulated PTCs into their existing curriculum. To illustrate how and why simulations impact professional readiness, we also describe the advantages, sequence and psychological processes of simulation training. A sample of candidate profiles across the two tasks are shared to illustrate what candidates take away from their experiences and the kinds of findings faculty may encounter when integrating simulation pedagogy.     

对比分析对民航无线电陆空通话教学的启示

文章首先介绍了对比分析与民航英语通话特点。然后从语法、标准术语、语序、句子结构和歧义现象等方面就句法层面,语义层面进行了对比分析。英语通话与汉语进行比较分析是民航教学研究的新课题。通过对比分析发现了通话语言的一些特殊现象,也使通话教学的教师们全面地了解了民航英语通话与汉语语言结构和意义的差异,对比分析对民航无线电陆空通话教学的启示为制定出行之有效的教学方法提供了一定的理论依据。     

汉英礼貌与文化价值差异探微

汉英礼貌的起源不同，但具有本质上的一致性：一种社会现象，一种获得良好的人际关系的手段，一种由社会习俗所强加的标准。礼貌具有人类性，更存在着民族性。随着英汉民族之间交往的加深，礼貌现象也有了一些变异。只有把握汉英礼貌的共性和个性，我们在跨化交际中才能避免或尽量避免交际障碍，达到有效的交际目的。     

跨文化交际与大学英语教学

语言和文化是相辅相成的。公共外语教学必须加强对学生的跨文化交际意识的培养，发挥教师进行文化导入的作用，避免交际中的语用失误，从而顺利地进行交际活动。