Use Of Cartoons Research Articles

Arab Cyberactivism: from papers to social networks

SActivism in the Arab world have been represented in hiding. One of the most important forms has been political cartoons which have been an important tool that has been consolidated over time be-cause cartoonists were able to become activists thanks to the use of symbols. However, the devel-opment of cyberspace translated cartoons into the network, by making them even more important as they transmitted ideas in a more direct way and developed a form of virtual activism. Therefore, the aim of this research is to study and analyze the history of the Arab political cartoons to see how it has consolidated in a form of revolutionary activism. Additionally, the attempt to this research is to reflect how a virtual community has been generated around that figure. As a result, a qualitative methodology has been used to carry out this research. A historical method has been used to collect information about the history of cartoons in the Arab world. Then, an ethnographic visual method has been developed to study the use of cartoons used. The results and discussion are to demonstrate that the cartoon is a form of revolution and activism which has strengthened itself with the use of the internet.

Impacts of using cartoons as an instructional tool on English communicative skills of young learners at a Vietnamese primary school

This study examined the impact of the use of cartoons on the speaking and listening skills of students in a primary school in a rural area in Vietnam and their attitudes towards the use of cartoons as a learning tool in their English classes. The study employed an experimental research design to collect data. Participants included 70 fifth-graders divided into two groups, the control group and the experiment group. The control group was taught regular English lessons. The experiment group learned similar lessons but cartoons were added to the English lesson to practice speaking and listening skills for six weeks. Before and after the experiment, the speaking and listening skills of the two groups were measured by a pretest and a posttest. In addition, the students in the experiment group were surveyed using a questionnaire to examine their attitudes towards watching cartoons for learning purposes. The findings show the English speaking and listening skills of the students in the experimental group improved more significantly than those of the students in the control group. Besides, the students in the experiment group expressed positive attitudes towards watching cartoons in English classes. The findings had implications for English language teachers at primary schools in Vietnam and in other non-dominant English speaking countries to include visual materials in their English lessons to enhance young learners’ English proficiency.

Analisis Kebutuhan Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Berbasis Cartoon dalam Pembelajaran IPA pada Materi Lingkungan Kelas III SD

Abstract. The implementation of the industrial revolution 4.0 policy had a significant impact on the achievement of several strategic fields to support government programs in advancing Indonesia primarily in the field of Education as a basis in science and supporting the technological development process in the field of Education. The 4.0 industrial revolution policy in the field of Education is used to be able to maximize learning media in supporting the learning process so that it gives an impact on the understanding of the murky and is mainly able to implement the knowledge in daily life. The use of cartoon media in the learning process is a form of progress in the field of Education, cartoon media is used as a medium in the learning process to provide interest to the murmur of elementary schools to easily understand the information conveyed through cartoon shows as a learning media in science learning, especially in discussions environment. The impact of the use of cartoon as a learning medium for elementary school students has a pretty good impact on understanding how to protect the environment, so the results of this study directly have a positive impact on the development of elementary school students thinking about the environment and ways to preserve the environment in learning Science. Keywords: learning media, cartoon, environment

A semiotic analysis of political cartoons on the first 100 days of Anies Baswedan government

Nowadays, information can be conveyed not only through words, but also through images. An image is also a form of one-way communication because, through an image, people can convey the meaning. This study aimed to describe Anies Baswedan�s political cartoons on his first 100 days as a governor. This study employed a qualitative research approach, and the content or document analysis as the research design. The researchers collected and analyzed the data dealing with the relationship between the utterances and Anies� cartoons on his first 100 days as Jakarta�s governor. In analyzing the data, some steps were taken: first, categorizing the sign into icon, symbol, index using a typology of signs; second, interpreting the meaning of the political cartoons; last, drawing conclusions based on the result of the analysis. The study found that the signs in those political cartoons had powerful meanings to convey the aspiration of Indonesian people freely towards Anies� government. Also, the fact that the cartoons were in the forms of images eased the readers in understanding the meanings behind them, and the political cartoons deal with the relationship between visual and verbal signs of cartoons because it will be helpful for the researchers to know about events depicted in those cartoons.The study also offers some potential use of cartoons for language teaching, even though the challenges of employing them are evident.

Statistical edutainment with confidence

AbstractThe use of cartoons, songs, and quotes can be a useful way to engage students in discussion and learning key concepts about quantifying the uncertainty in statistical estimates.

COMMUNICATIVE AND SPEECH DEVELOPMENT OF OLDER PRESCHOOLERS BY MEANS OF CARTOON: TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH

The article deals with an important issue of modern preschool education – communicative and speech development of older preschoolers. This age is important in shaping personality as a whole and preparing a child for school. Substantial changes occur in the ontogeny of communication of an older preschooler – other motives and forms of communication, complex speech constructions for communication, interest in the social environment, the world of human problems, the formation of emotional intelligence, etc. The author clarifies the essence of the concept “communicative and speech development of older preschoolers”.Cartoons have been identified as an important means of communication for older preschoolers; the psychological and pedagogical potential of the cartoons (didactic, educational, developmental, psychotherapeutic, cultural and historical, multicultural, etc.) has been revealed; their conditional classification (didactic, cognitive, interactive, educational social-communicative, entertaining, informative, problematic, etc.) has been presented.The author considers interpersonal communication in the form of models of communicative-speech interaction, offers to use modeling in the cognition of preschoolers of different communication situations in the system “a person – a person”, namely: a child-an adult; an adult –children; a child-a child; peer children and toddlers. At the same time, the author shows the fullness of modern cartoons with the social and communicative content by various models of communication and speech interaction, which should be introduced to older preschoolers.The technological principles of the use of cartoons in communicative and speech development of older preschoolers are described. The author presents the conceptual foundations of the program “Cartoon_Com_Mod” and didactic means of its implementation in the practice of the institution of preschool education: pedagogical conditions (enrichment of the content of the educational process by cartoons; an integrated approach to the organization of perception of models; maximum creative and play character of work; parental education on communicative and speech development) forms, methods and techniques. Integrated lessons or integrated days were passed in stages – propaedeutical, revisionary and reflexive (according to N. Havrysh, K. Krutii), each of which had a specific purpose and appropriate didactic means of achieving it.

Tiras em quadrinhos e cartuns: a divulgação de informações em saúde num jornal universitário

Discorre acerca da veiculação de tiras de histórias em quadrinhos e cartuns utilizados na transmissão de informações de divulgação científica em saúde. Método: foram analisados os 56 episódios tiras de histórias em quadrinhos e cartuns veiculados pelo Jornal da Paulista, jornal universitário da Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, que circulou entre os anos de 1987 a 2003. Resultados: constatou-se a ocorrência de 12 tiras em quadrinhos e 31 cartuns que abordavam informações de saúde e 13 cartuns que abordavam outros temas. A consulta em bibliografia específica possibilitou constatar o emprego desses recursos no campo da saúde. Conclusões: a literatura quadrinística não é mais vista como marginal ou apenas como objeto de entretenimento, mas tem um uso efetivo para a divulgação de informações, bem como a possibilidade de divulgar a ciência produzida em diferentes campos do conhecimento, entre eles o da saúde.

Teaching physics through contextualized concept cartoons

This document present the results of a research in the use of Cartoon in teaching of physics. The methodology of mixed approach, involved at first the design and use of Concept Contextualized Cartoons, as well their validation and implementation among groups of high school students. Secondly, a motivational scale regarding the use of cartoons and the teaching of physics was adapted and applied. The results describe the characteristics of the questions formulated by the students when interacting with the cartoon, specifically in relations the scientific knowledge associated to three phenomena of study: Atmospheric Electric discharges – Thunderbolt, Electric Current and Polarization. Furthermore, the cartoons didactic potential was identified in relation to the categories of the motivational scale, which highlights significant motivational levels associated with the relationship with life and the importance of the physics class.

Cartoon-based e-cigarette marketing: Associations with susceptibility to use and perceived expectations of use

BackgroundManufacturers of e-cigarette-related products are using cartoons as a marketing strategy, despite restrictions on cartoon marketing for combustible cigarettes. Here, we examined associations between exposure to e-liquid packaging with cartoons (operationally defined as recognition of actual marketing images) and e-cigarette use, susceptibility to use, and expectations of benefits and risks of use. MethodsU.S. adults completed online surveys assessing e-cigarette use. In Study 1, participants (N = 778; Mean age = 23.5 years; 62% women) completed a questionnaire assessing expectations about benefits and risks of use. Then they were presented with 22 e-liquid package images (with and without cartoons) and were asked to endorse whether they recognized the products. In Study 2, participants (N = 522; Mean age = 30.4; 55% women) were presented with 24 e-liquid images (with and without cartoons) and asked to rate product appeal. ResultsFor Study 1, among never users, cartoon recognition was associated with greater likelihood of being susceptible to use e-cigarettes, and with expectations of taste enjoyment and social facilitation. For Study 2, there was no significant difference between cartoon and non-cartoon images on appeal ratings. ConclusionsCartoon-based marketing exposure – as measured by recognition of e-liquid package images – was associated with susceptibility to use e-cigarettes, which is consistent with previous research on the use of cartoons to promote combustible cigarettes. These data suggest that restrictions on the use of cartoon-based marketing strategies for e-cigarettes should be similar to those for cigarettes, to reduce susceptibility and perceived benefits among non-users.

Cartoons as an Authentic Supplementary Teaching Tool in English as a Second Language Classrooms

The present study seeks to find the students’ performance towards the assigned tasks related to cartoons and their perceptions towards the use of it as an authentic, supplementary teaching tool to facilitate the process of speaking. A sample of thirty-five students was selected to involve in different tasks related to selected number of cartoons. The researcher conducted an empirical investigation by employing quantitative and qualitative research methods. Audio recordings and classroom observations were used to investigate the students’ active involvement towards the assigned tasks related to cartoons and a well-structured questionnaire was employed to evaluate their perceptions towards the use of it as an authentic supplementary tool in teaching the speaking skills of ESL learners. The results of the study revealed that a majority of students actively involved in the assigned task related to cartoons. The students gave a comprehensive and controversial account of the assigned cartoons incorporating the clues given by the facilitator resulting to assure better learner motivation and participation, transforming the teaching and learning experience into an enjoyable, stimulating, and memorable experience. Furthermore, nearly 70% of students demonstrated a positive perception towards the use of cartoons in ESL classrooms as they believed it facilitates their speaking skills making the input more comprehensible and enhancing collaborative learning. Besides, they accepted that cartoons improve students’ personal relationships with fellow students and promote peer learning. Based on the findings, it was concluded that cartoons can be effectively used as an authentic supplementary tool in ESL classrooms to teach speaking skills to Sri Lankan ESL learners.

A public health framework for the regulation of marketing.

Cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental studies have found a link between youth exposure to cigarette marketing and youth initiation of smoking. These decisive research findings led to regulations of cigarette marketing to youth-including no television or radio ads, prohibitions on the use of cartoons, bans on transit and billboard advertisements, and disallowing tobacco brand sponsorships of sporting events or concerts. Similar products that may cause more harm than benefits include alcohol, electronic cigarettes, and opioids. We review the evidence linking problematic use of these products with exposure to marketing and discuss standards for assessing the potential harmfulness of marketing. We next address how public health agencies might apply regulatory principles to these harmful products similar to those applied to cigarette advertising, in the advancement of public health.

Disability studies as a framework to design disability awareness programs: no need for ‘magic’ to facilitate children’s understanding

This paper presents and critically discusses a disability awareness program that was addressed to non-disabled children aged between 6-8 years old in Cyprus. The main aims were to explore how disability studies and anti-oppressive pedagogies could inform decisions on structured activities and materials to support children understand disability as condition of life, and recognize disabling practices. Artefacts from children’s work and narratives are presented throughout the paper to inform decisions and choices in relation to the program. The discussion draws on international literature and critically examines: a. how disability feminists’ focus on experiences of disability can have a central place in awareness raising programs, and can be further strengthened by a social model understanding of disability, b. the local context and the use of language as raised by postmodernists/poststructuralists, and c. the use of cartoons as a form of art that can help recognize and challenge dominant disability stereotypes.

Use of Technology in the Teaching of Telugu Concepts to Create Enthusiastic Learning Environment—A Case Study among Educators

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of digital technology could create a positive impact in teaching of Telugu concepts. Due to little exposure of the Telugu language in Mauritius, learners face difficulties in learning and understanding the language in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary, communication and writing skills. The study focused mainly on how the use of cartoons could cater for all types of learners, how they can be used as a tool to allow a child centred learning and whether they promoted the understanding of concepts easily through the use of technology and brought motivation to learners. A study was conducted with two upper primary schools to find out whether concept cartoons could be advantageous in encouraging them in better understanding concepts. Cartoon Story Maker was used as an educational tool to teach the “Singular- Plural” concept followed by an interactive quiz as assessment to monitor the progress of students. Through both qualitative and quantitative approaches, focus groups, observation, and achievement tests were chosen as convenient methods to collect data. The findings revealed that there has been a slight increase in percentage of scores in class tests and that cartoon concepts have motivated the learners to learn the Telugu concepts and helped to improve their communication skills.

The use of cartoons as a teaching tool to enhance student learning in Medical Jurisprudence

Background - Cartoons have been used effectively as a teaching tool in other settings and were considered as a potentially useful teaching aid. Medical Jurisprudence is one area which needs paramount attention in the present era of Consumer Protection Act and growing litigations against Medical Practitioners. This study examines the impact of cartoons in improving healthcare professional’s knowledge with regards to Medical Jurisprudence as desired by Medical Council of India, thereby addressing the equally important affection domain, in addition to cognitive and psychomotor domains. A very high percentage of students agreed that medical cartoons help in clarity of concept (99%), memory processing (98%), retention and learning (99%), in reproduction (86%), in generation of interest (100%), in focus (98%), in interaction (95%) and as an effective teaching tool (100%). Conclusion – Study suggested that students are interested in power point lectures with academic cartoons since they are effective teaching tool which helps in understanding the topic in abetter way and facilitates the clarity of the concept, generates interest, helps in retention and learning.

THE USE OF CARTOON “FROZEN” MOVIE AS VISUAL MEDIA TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN LEARNING SPEAKING: A CASE OF NINTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP SULTAN AGUNG 1 SEMARANG

The objectives of this study are (1) to find out the speaking ability of students in grade 9th of SMP SultanAgung 1 taught without using Cartoon “frozen” movie. (2) to find out the speaking ability of students in grade 9th of SMP Sultan Agung 1 taught with cartoon “frozen” movie. (3) to know the difference in speaking ability of students in grade 9thin SMP Sultan Agung 1 taught with and without using cartoon “frozen” as Media.This study investigates the speaking ability of the students taught using cartoon “frozen” movie as media, the speaking ability of the students taught without using cartoon “frozen” movie as media, whether or not there is significant difference of speaking ability between the students taught using cartoon “frozen” movie and those taught without cartoon “frozen” as media..This study, belongs to experimental quantitative method. The population of the study was ninth grade students of SMP Sultan Agung 1 Semarang. In this study, purposive sampling has been used to take the samples. The samples were 9A as experimental group, and 9E as control group. Then, the instruments of this study were test and document.It was found that the mean of experimental group was 72.53. Meanwhile, the mean of control group was 60.67. The mean of experimental group was higher than the mean of control group. So, it found that there was significant difference of the speaking ability between the students taught using cartoon “frozen” movie and those taught without using cartoon “frozen” movie as media.From the research findings, it can be concluded that since the use of cartoon “frozen” movie as modelin teaching speaking , the students were more interested in teaching learning process. It was proven based on the computation. The result of t-test was3.71 and t-table was 2.00. So the value of t-test was higher than t-table (3.71>2.00).It concludes that using cartoon “frozen” movie as media can promote students speaking ability. Based on the conclusion, some suggestions were proposed for the teacher and the students. The teacher can use cartoon “frozen” movie as media for teaching speaking. The students can use cartoon “frozen” movie to enhance the understanding of the content information, and to promote their speaking ability.

Effects of Promotional Materials on Attitudes and Fear towards Colorectal Cancer Screening among Chinese Older Adults: An Experimental Study.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is a cost-effective prevention and control strategy. However, the promotion of CRC screening for older adults may be difficult because reading CRC prevention information may evoke embarrassment, fear, and anxiety towards the screening procedure and cancer diagnosis. This study aims to (1) examine the effects of three promotional materials for CRC screening on the attitudes toward CRC screening tests (screening interest, screening effectiveness, and trust in the screening results) and cancer fear, and (2) to explore the interaction effect of cancer fear with screening effectiveness and trust in the screening results on screening interest of the three screening tests (fecal occult blood test (FOBT), flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy) among Chinese older adults. A total of 114 community-dwelling older adults were asked to look at the corresponding promotional materials (pamphlet, cartoon, and video) of one of the three study groups. The pamphlet and video represent convention strategies and the cartoon represents an innovative strategy. No significant difference was observed in the screening interest and cancer fear across groups. FOBT was the most preferred screening modality. The video group has a large proportion agreed screening effectiveness of flexible sigmoidoscopy than pamphlet and cartoon groups and trusted in the screening results for FOBT and flexible sigmoidoscopy than the pamphlet group. Logistic regression results showed that the effect of trust in the screening results on screening interest for colonoscopy was greater among participants with higher cancer fear than those with lower cancer fear level. In conclusion, the three promotional groups had produced similar results in their attitudes toward CRC screening and cancer fear. The use of cartoons may be a comparable approach with conventional methods in the promotion of CRC screening. Additional components that can arouse fear and boost response efficacy simultaneously might also be useful for the effective promotion of colonoscopy among Chinese older adults.

Elopement in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Elopement in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Newsgames: periodismo y videojuegos ¿una herramienta utilizada en el ámbito informativo colombiano?

Newsgames are the way that serious games are looking to gamify news through video games, the objective is to generate new experiences of entertainment, and analysis among its users. Its application is analysed from different international models, but in Colombia the case of the website Ocioweb is the most renowned, where by the use of cartoons they criticize controversial events. This work was aimed to identify what is the relationship between these video games and colombian journalism, through an exploration on the most viewed news media web sites in the country, applying the theory of essential authors. Therefore Ocioweb was analyzed opposite the findings gathered in three important news media, discovering new key players that drag the users to turn in active citizens both inside and outside the network. The work on Newsgames in Colombia is just beginning, this is a new ground to innovate inside cyber journalism and cybermedia.

Rola filmów animowanych w moralnym wychowaniu starszych przedszkolaków

The author describes the main approaches to defining the essence of the concept of “moral education” in the scientific literature, highlights its essential characteristics, proves the importance of forming moral behaviour of senior preschool children by means of animation, analyses the use of cartoons in contemporary preschool educational institutions and grounds their influence on moral education of senior preschool children.

Introduction to Skin Cancer: A Video Module.

This introductory skin cancer video module engages novice health care professionals to make histological-clinical correlations for the three most common skin cancers: basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and melanoma. The goal of this video module is to engage novice health care professionals (e.g., allied health, medical, nursing students) to go beyond the all-too-common phenomenon of memorizing gross and histological features of skin cancers without reference to the relationship between these features. By explicitly highlighting underlying histological-clinical correlations for BCC, SCC, and melanoma, this video module helps learners build a deeper and lasting knowledge of these common diseases. Materials in this module include a learner guide with instructions on how to complete the module; four chalk-talk videos that discuss classification of skin cancers, histological-clinical correlations for BCC, SCC, and melanoma, and how to distinguish among benign nevi, dysplastic nevi, and melanoma (total viewing time 54 minutes, 22 seconds); annotated slides used in the videos; and 10 multiple-choice self-assessment questions. This module was successfully incorporated into the first-year flipped classroom curriculum for medical and dental students at Harvard Medical School. Written comments from students revealed that they enjoyed watching short concept videos to prepare for in-class, case-based discussions of BCC, SCC, and melanoma. By illustrating histological-clinical correlations and reducing cognitive load of the material through use of cartoons and prototypical clinical images, this video module is an accessible initial resource for an emerging generation of millennial health care professionals to learn about common skin cancers.