Access and Express: Professional Perspectives on Public Library Makerspaces and Intellectual Freedom

This study examines the roles of makerspaces and librarians in public libraries, as defined by nine librarians instituting makerspace services. It explores their understanding of creative spaces and library policy, specifically the foundational principles of intellectual freedom and access. Using constructivist discourse analysis tools, this study analyzes interview data to illuminate a concept of access grounded in expression, incorporating hands-on activities, tools, and social connections. This study has implications for practitioners and policymakers in reconsidering access as a positive liberty enabled by social contexts, and librarians’ enzymatic roles in facilitating those contexts.     

Public Library Services for Veterans: Selected Brief Case Studies

Public libraries across the country design and deliver programs for military veterans and their families, often collaborating with other organizations and agencies. The examples were assembled from both general and specialized interviews with librarians, and literature and Internet searches, with summaries of programs assembled and written by multiple researchers. The specific limitations on the listing in this article are clearly outlined in the first section. Overall, however, the article provides a good introductory overview of what’s going on in veteran’s programs and services in America’s public libraries in over seventy libraries in forty states. We hope this list of what public libraries have organized or are doing will supply other public librarians with ideas on how to provide new services or enhance their existing ones.     

Early Literacy and the Public Library: An Opportunity of a Lifetime (of Reading)

In this article, author Bill Ptacek says that the future is now, and, at least from the 1970s through today, in the field of early childhood work, the future has come so fast that it is constantly upon us. That reality means that those concerned about young children in libraries have been about adaptation on a continuing basis. In this world of rapid change, innovation is constant: City firefighters come to the libraries in uniform to read stories to children, library outreach specialists take programs to daycare centers in their communities, and staff members create a space in a library devoted to early childhood reading. This tradition of rapid change means that the early childhood staff of most large public libraries in North America is changing for the future on a regular basis. The work unit should be considered seriously as one model for 21st century public library reform.     

中国早间电视的发展现状与对策

中国早间电视潜在着巨大效益,电视从业者要改变观念,找准早间电视节目的定位,分析收视对象,利用早间电视的传播特征,把握时机创造出早间电视的时段效益。     

核心素养在高职称量实训教学设计中的体现

在教学设计中,核心素养是三维课程目标的继承与发展,是教学适应社会发展的理论指导。社会生活对于学生的发展提出新的要求,这种要求在职业教育阶段更为突出。在食品、药品生产与经营相关专业的职业教育中,做出精准快速的称量操作,是学生应该掌握的基础技能和职业素质。这项实训课程应不断创新教学设计,体现核心素养。     

网络与多媒体辅助教学在大学英语课堂中的运用

网络与多媒体辅助教学在大学英语教学中既具有优势也存在使用误区。要在英语课堂中合理地使用网络与多媒体辅助教学,教师必须真正理解现代教育技术的内涵,并能科学地选择最佳的教学媒体来实施教学。     

Accuracy of activPAL Self-Attachment Methods

This study examined the accuracy of self-attachment of the activPAL activity monitor. A convenience sample of 50 participants self-attached the monitor after being presented with written material only (WMO) and then written and video (WV) instructions; and completed a questionnaire regarding the acceptability of the instructional methods. Participants positioned the monitor lower than the instructed position on the thigh (WMO ?5.15 ± 2.75 cm, WV ?4.16 ± 2.15 cm; p = .008 difference) and approximately 2 cm laterally from the thigh midline (WMO 1.90 ± 0.92 cm; WV 2.08 ± 1.24 cm). The orientation of the device was positioned correctly along the midline (within < 1° of vertical). Acceptability was high for both instructional methods although preference was shown for the WV instruction. In conclusion, participants consistently self-attached the activPAL close to the intended placement with either instructional method. The addition of video instruction produced a slightly more accurate attachment and was preferred by the participants.     

浅议信息化教学设计

随着教育信息化的推进,传统的教学设计终将被信息化教学设计所取代.首先简要阐述了信息化教学设计的理论基础--建构主义学习理论,然后比较了在建构主义指导下的信息化教学设计与传统教学设计的区别,最后引入了<全球性挑战--21世纪的水资源短缺、战争和可持续发展问题>案例.     

理解的维度之探讨

促进学生的理解是教育的终极目标。UbD理论新近提出了“理解的六个维度”(即解释、释义、应用、洞察、移情和自知)。参照布卢姆认知目标新分类和马扎诺学习的维度观,我们采用领会意义、灵活应用和洞察自省三个维度,配以细化的指标,可以对UbD中的理解维度进行改造。     

教育技术与课程整合--教育改革的光明通途

在当前我国积极推进教育现代化、信息化的大背景下,倡导和探索教育技术与具体学科课程整合的教学,对于教育改革的成功进行,对于发展学生的"信息素养",培养学生的创新精神和实践能力,提高教师树立现代教育观念和掌握现代教育技术,改变传统的教学结构,提高教学效率和效益有着十分重要的现实意义.本文试以教育技术与课程整合为途径对现代教育改革的成功进行作分析和探讨.