Didactic Aid Research Articles

FILMS FOR EFL: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS OF A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER

Introduction: Research on teacher perceptions on the use of films in the secondary school English classroom is scarce since most studies have focused on other educational levels and on the opinions of students. Besides, most of these studies are merely of a theoretical nature. Consequently, there is a need for empirical research which sheds further light on both Compulsory Secondary Education and teacher perceptions on this matter. Objective of the paper: this study explores the perception of a secondary school teacher on the use of a film as a tool for conducting EFL classes. Method: data were obtained according to the following steps. Firstly, the English instructor was interviewed regarding her views on the use of authentic audio-visual materials in the English classroom. Then, the teacher examined a film-based lesson plan which included the advantages of authentic audio-visual resources for EFL as defined by scholars in the field. Finally, the teacher was interviewed again to trace changes in her perception. Findings: the results of the study show that, in the initial interview, the participant’s opinion was positive although her use of movies as a didactic aid was vague and minimal. However, in the final interview, she reflected a more positive view and she was willing to include films and their multiple educational benefits into her lessons, advocating, therefore, a more holistic understanding of EFL. Conclusion: the contextually situated awareness elicited through the teacher’s own experience of the lesson plan made her question her own classroom practice. This led to the amplification of the teacher’s understanding of EFL, which, at the post-intervention stage, emerged not only as a linguistic endeavour but also as a platform from where to promote critical thinking, aesthetic sensitivity or awareness towards issues of social justice.

Vertalen in het vreemdetalenonderwijs: Wikipedia als didactisch hulpmiddel?

This article relates to the field of the didactics of foreign language teaching, and presents the results of a preliminary study carried out in order to determine the extent to which Wikipedia can be used as a didactic aid and learning tool in the translation lectures of foreign language teaching in the Master’s degree in Dutch at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland). In view of the free access to this online encyclopedia, on the one hand, and the richness of texts (in Polish and Dutch) with a cultural content on the other, we investigated to what extent Wikipedia translation can be successfully used as a tool in L2 translation classes. The increasing importance of technological tools (such as electronic dictionaries, terminological databases, and machine translation software) for translation and its use in language teaching, on the one hand, and, on the other, the fact that Polish graduates in Dutch philology often work as translators, were the starting point for this research, which was conducted as a preliminary phase (case study) of a more extensive study into the practical application of Wikipedia translation activities in language acquisition classes.

Elementary School Student's Attitudes on Teaching Artist' Monochrome Picture Book Without Text and Graphite Technique

ABSTRACTBecause drawing with a pencil is a basic but often ignored or underestimated rendering skill, we offered a didactic aid—the teaching artist's monochrome picture book—to elementary school third graders for their visual art classes (N = 25, between 8 and 9 years of age). On the basis of the created works of visual art and the transcribed interviews with them, we checked the participating students' responses to the monochromatic graphite technique. This research shows that the graphite technique attracts the students and upgrades their knowledge of visual art concepts.

Szkolna nauka czytania i pisania z wykorzystaniem wybranych elementarzy – refleksje metodyczne

Tekst dotyczy nauki czytania i pisania na początkowym etapie nauczania szkolnegooraz roli elementarzy w procesie alfabetyzacji dziecka. Artykuł ma charakter przeglądowy. W części pierwszej wskazano psycholingwistyczne podstawy czytania i pisania oraz różnice między systemami językowymi, warunkujące zastosowanie określonych metod nauki czytania i pisania. Opisano strukturę, funkcję i metodyczne aspekty pracy z elementarzem, który potraktowany został jako efektywna pomoc dydaktyczna i skuteczna forma inicjacji dziecka w świat pisma. W części drugiej scharakteryzowano wybrane elementarze oraz proponowane przez ich autorów koncepcje nauki czytania i pisania. Do analizy elementarzy zastosowano podejście tradycyjne – dydaktyczne i nieoceniające. Na koniec wskazano przykłady współczesnych elementarzy polskich, niemieckich i jeden rosyjski. Kryterium ich doboru był długoletni okres wykorzystywania (blisko pół wieku) w pierwszych latach nauki szkolnej oraz dominacja metod analityczno-syntetycznych w nauczaniu czytania i pisania.

UTILIZAÇÃO DE JOGO DIDÁTICO NO ENSINO DE QUÍMICA NAS ESCOLAS DE REFERÊNCIA ATRAVÉS DO CICLO DA EXPERIÊNCIA KELLYANA (CEK)

Geralmente, em um meio escolar encontramos discentes com dificuldade na disciplina de química, esse fato pode ser atribuído às estratégicas tradicionais de ensino, que aliadas aos conteúdos complexos tornam as aulas monótonas e desestimulantes. Visto que, o jogo, aliado ao aprendizado de determinados conteúdos e atividade lúdica, desperta o interesse dos estudantes nos conteúdos discutidos, proporcionando uma aprendizagem eficaz, divertida e empolgante. Por esse motivo, foi realizada uma pesquisa através do Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (TCC) defendido em 2017, no curso de Licenciatura em Química do IFPE (Instituto Federal de Pernambuco) – Campus Vitória, essa pesquisa buscou investigar as contribuições dos jogos didáticos no aprendizado em conceitos químicos através do Ciclo de Experiência Kellyana (CEK) pelos bolsistas do PDVL (Programa Internacional Despertando Vocações para Licenciaturas). O presente trabalho foi realizado nas Escolas de Referencia do Ensino Médio (EREM) no Município de Vitória de Santo Antão, essas escolas foram escolhidas por possuírem a concepção de escola inovadora, possibilitando assim, estratégias didáticas que facilitem ou dinamizem as aulas de maneira atrativa para os alunos. Ao realizarmos uma análise preliminar nessas escolas constatamos que os professores que lecionavam a disciplina de química não utilizam jogos didáticos em seu planejamento escolar. A partir disso verificando que nessas escolas possuíam o PDVL onde participam alguns estudantes do curso da Licenciatura em Química do IFPE (Instituto Federal de Pernambuco) – Campus Vitória e que esse programa possui o Grupo de Trabalho (GT) de Jogos Didáticos que realizam intervenções com os estudantes da disciplina de Química do ensino médio nas Escolas de Referência parceiras do programa, o nosso foco se voltou para as suas ações nas referidas escolas. A pesquisa se estabeleceu nas seguintes etapas: (i) Análise da proposta do programa; (ii) Observação das intervenções através do CEK (Ciclo da Experiência Kellyana) realizadas pelos bolsistas do PDVL - GT de Jogos Didáticos. Os resultados encontrados validaram nossa pesquisa, em vista que o PDVL - GT Jogos Didáticos vem a contribuir nas Escolas de Referência em Ensino Médio através das intervenções que os bolsistas realizam, utilizando como base metodológica o CEK, possibilitando aos estudantes um jogo didático que concilia o aprendizado de determinados conteúdos e a atividade lúdica, assim conseguindo despertar o interesse dos estudantes pela disciplina proporcionando uma aprendizagem diferenciada. A partir das investigações propostas nesse trabalho observamos que jogo didático não é utilizado em sala de aula como auxílio didático para aulas da disciplina de química, com isso, o PDVL vem desempenhando intervenções de maneira atrativa e estimulante na contribuição de saberes químicos para os alunos das EREM, conseguindo auxiliar no Ensino e Aprendizagem dos estudantes. A aplicação dos jogos didáticos no processo educativo promove a integração, a sociabilidade, o despertar lúdico, da brincadeira e principalmente do aprendizado. É importante frisar também, que os jogos devem ser sempre utilizados como ferramentas de apoio ao ensino e que este tipo de prática pedagógica conduz ao estudante à exploração de sua criatividade, dando condições de uma melhora de conduta no processo de ensino e aprendizagem.

Uses and Misuses of Ted Kaczynski's MMPI

ABSTRACTAlthough case studies can be a helpful didactic aid when teaching personality assessment and illustrating use of a test, they can, of course, not be used as “evidence” that a test “works” or does not work. This article, however, reviews and discusses the far more problematic uses instantiated in a case study of Ted Kaczynski's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). A series of errors of omission and commission are identified in Butcher, Hass, Greene, and Nelson's (2015) effort to criticize the MMPI–2–RF. These include not disclosing that Butcher's interpretive Minnesota Report for Forensic Settings indicates that the protocol is invalid, not including most of the MMPI–2 and MMPI–2–RF scores that contradict the authors' assertions, and mischaracterizing the MMPI–2–RF findings. Proper use of a case study is then illustrated by a discussion of diagnostic considerations indicated by the MMPI–2–RF findings.

USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTs) IN ACTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AT COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS (CLCs) IN MEKONG RIVER DELTA

For the using Information and Comunication Technologies (ICTs) in education and general schools and community learning centers to be improved, great attention must be paid to various aspects. The article introduces a model and different activities in using ICTs at CLCs. Using ICTs in CLCs to be an effective strategy, how to develop learners’ initiative and self – learning capacity, to improve the quality of teaching and learning in CECs at District level. The article’s author exposes the design of a gifted self-learning lesson and electric documents (digital documents) can help learners to easily learn, read, study, self evaluate the learning results, through a series of objective tests. It helps to train learners’ capacity in self-learning. Setting up teaching-learning software, there is no absolute need for a teacher to grasp the capacity of computer’s programming. Enough to establish a cooperation between a expert of the given science and a expert of informatics, to set - up successfully a teachinglearning software of quality, meeting satisfactorily any requirements of a didactic aid. The experiments can be developed by Macromedia Flash and also must satisfy the requirements for the online interactive experiments. Therefore, this ones are implemented in teaching – learning Science Subjects to help CECs’ learners understanding and interesting in knowledge deeply. So the modeling of experiments on computers is a good and feasible solution, to avoid the actual teaching – learning process in CECs without experiments today.

Automat do odmiany i składania liczebników głównych, czyli o pewnej aplikacji internetowej

An Automaton for Declining and Combining of Cardinal Numerals, or About a Certain Internet ApplicationThe paper describes the workings of a website which main purpose is to serve as a didactic aid in the teaching of the grammar of Polish numerals. The user inputs a natural number into the application (as a string of digits), and selects the categories of gender and case; the output is the declined number as a word, together with the syntactic requirements of the numeral group which corresponds to the given number. The paper presents the theoretical basis of the algorithm of this application, and some problems and doubts which arose during its implementation.

DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODELS FOR DIDACTIC SUPPORT

This paper presents the evaluation of a discrete event simulation model designed to be used as a didactic aid instrument in classes of a technical course on high school. The simulation model was developed using the free version of the Arena software. Among the results obtained, it was found that applying this model as a didactic resource in classes has enabled an increase of quality in the students’ learning. This result was even more significant concerning students with average grades below 6. In these cases, with the help of the simulator, students of worse educational achievement obtained performance close to the ones that had average grades equal to or higher than 8.

Virtual Laboratory of Bottling Process with Temperature Control in an Autoclave

Technological advances in the area of virtual laboratories in recent years, have made possible the implementation of industrial processes in virtual environments for different purposes, such as monitoring and control of these processes, and as a didactic aid in the education field at professional level. This development offers the capability to navigate and control a graphical environment of a bottling process in the brewery industry. As well as being accessible from any virtual platform with internet access.

Immersive Educational Simulation of Medical Ultrasound Examination

Abstract In the Poznan University of Technology Chair of Production Engineering and Management, a Virtual Reality –Rapid Prototyping team has been active for many years and one of the studied activities is possibility of VR use in classes for higher education. As a result of cooperation with one of the medical universities in the region, an educational application has been developed, as a didactic aid during anatomy, physiology and pathology courses. During the test use, the application has been found quite interesting for both the lecturers and the students. It allowed, among other things, to freely slice the virtual human body and showing and hiding selected groups of organs, in order to allow detailed inspection of human anatomy by the user. This work continues in the study presented in this paper –they are aimed at expanding the simulation functionalities and allowing to conduct a training for the ultrasound examination. In many previous studies, it was proven that possibility of tracking the user's movements allows the simulation realism to be improved. It is a result of the phenomenon of immersion of the user in the virtual world. The immersion improves quality of the conducted virtual training and allows to better use the abilities learned during the course. In case of the ultrasound scanner, it is necessary to track both the position and the orientation of the device head, for proper generation of the virtual image of the insides of the human body. The paper discusses a process of adaptation of a head used in the ultrasound scan to application in the training simulation. Process of preparation and adaptation of the head geometry was described, along with a process of preparation of virtual and then physical prototypes using the 3D Printing technology. The prepared prototypes were covered with markers of the optical tracking system. Proper arrangement of the markers was implemented in the database and scenarios of work were prepared, to check correctness of gathering information about the ultrasound scanner head orientation and position in the three-dimensional space. Developed solutions were verified on a test group of users. Obtained results were presented in a form allowing their easy interpretation.

Dydaktyczny charakter biblijnej księgi na przykładzie Deuteronomium

Deuteronomy as a biblical text expresses tradition which was being developed for a few centuries. Its creators used a model taken from the world of ancient pedagogy to present the dynamic relation between God and Israel. Deuteronomy consists of the traditions coming from the wisdom current, and legal articles comprised in the book lose their jurisdictional dimension and become some kind of instructions, where the element of caution is prevailing. The relationship between Deuteronomy and teaching allows to distinguish and outline the elements of the process of teaching or widely understood process of education. The addressee is called by means of rhetoric to active and conscious participation in educational process. The method of education whose essence lies in repeating and reflecting upon the contents taught on various times of the day is supposed to help. Reminding of the events and their “realization”, for example setting them in the cult, manifests the relationship between knowledge and practice as well as the expression of efficiency of knowledge itself. Passing the knowledge acquired to your sons also signifies the efficiency of knowledge and its connection with life. All of this takes place inside the religious and national community, as education through community, but also individual education. The uniqueness of this educational process is that the ultimate reference of all cautions and the ultimate „educator” is God Himself. And Deuteronomy itself incessantly interpreted, commented and “taken to hart, becomes the key means and didactic aid for educational process. At the same time, it is testimony to this process.

Additions Are Needed

As advance analgesia is not possible, venipuncture must be performed on the conscious child. If there is an indication for venipuncture, tedious and painful failed punctures must be avoided. A maximum of two attempts should be made at the classical and promising sites of puncture. If those fail, intra-osseous puncture should be performed. The possible complications are of secondary importance only. The best puncture site is at the transition between the proximal and mid third of the lower leg. If the Cook needle is used, the infant’s lower leg must rest on the palm of the operator, in order to avoid greenstick fractures. The sentence “Symptomatic hyperglycemia in childhood is almost always due to diabetic ketoacidosis” is totally unacceptable. Ketoacidosis is a symptom, not the cause of excessive hyperglycemia. Volume replacement is actually very important in the therapy of hyperglycemic ketotacidosis. If however 0.9% NaCl solution is infused, the acidosis may be enhanced, as there is a lack of metabolisable anions. A balanced electrolyte solution is to be preferred here. Table 3 is not very helpful. It is hardly possible to distinguish between “dry” and “dried out” mucus membranes. Experience has shown that the clinical evaluation of the child should be based on the general condition, respiration and circulation, with the help of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle. This tool is a valuable didactic aid when the severity of a pediatric emergency is to be assessed.

Proposal for a Didactic Aid to Practice the Bank Shots in Basketball

Abstract The aim of the paper was to propose a didactic aid to practice and develop bank shots in basketball. Four basketball players (three men and one 13-years old woman) were shooting bank shots from six distances (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 m) and at four angles (90 o , 75 o , 45 o and 25 ) respective to the board. An experimenter positioned behind the transparent backboard recorded the points of impact of 15 successful shots (without touching the rim) for each of the above distances, angles and shooters. With perpendicular shots at the backboard, we identified only negligible dislocation of the set of impact points. With angled shots, the set of impact points tended to move towards the side edge of the board and upwards depending on the angle of the shooter’s position to the board and his/her distance. The farther the shooter from the basket and the lower the angle at which the shooter was shooting, the closer the impact point was towards the upper corner of the board.We proposed a very simple and economically viable didactic aid to practice bank shots, consisting of a circle and two slanted ellipses placed on the backboard.

Le journal personnel en tant que dispositif critique et didactique

An intimate diary is not only and exclusively spontaneous form of writing on personal themes, but may also appear as an instrument of critical reflection, and as a didactic aid. On the example of scientfic works of Philippe Lejeune and a handbook for pupils who have learning difficulties, the author analyses directions of development of this form of autobiographical recording and possibilities of using a diary in domains other than writing literature.

A Queuing Structure Simulator for An Ms-Dos Personal Computer

A queuing structure simulator for an MS-DOS personal computer A simulator is described whose purpose is to provide a didactic aid for the teaching of the theory and operation of queuing systems. The program allows the user to build different queue models and to investigate the operation of the models with varying queuing protocols, server and arrival rates.

An apparatus for recording hand movements

An apparatus is described which makes it possible to conduct detailed analyses of hand and finger movements in braille reading. The device records movements in relation to detailed features on the text from below transparent surfaces, synchronously with voice output and cumulative real (1/100sec) time. The apparatus makes it possible to analyse the timing and location of finger movements of the two hands in relation to very small details of the text in continuous prose reading. It has a major application as a didactic aid in training courses for instructors, and in analysing and correcting braille reading problems.

ESWL: A look from different angles

Rapid and accurate stone positioning prior to shock wave administration is the key to efficient extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). On the Dornier HM-3 machine, the operator uses the control panel to move the stone image along the x, y, or z axis, but many operators are uncertain about the direction and speed of the target when the control buttons are activated. Since knowledgeable, full use of ESWL controls probably results in reduced positioning time and x-ray exposure, the angles and relative velocities from simple and complex maneuvers are presented as a didactic aid.

The Kelvin-Thomson atom. I. The one- to six-electron atoms

A resume is given of the model's key features and it is suggested that it is (like Bohr's model) worth retaining as a didactic aid. Besides providing good examples of the application of Coulomb's and Gauss's laws, it serves as a good example around which to hang a discussion of modelling.