Visual Thinking Research Articles

Surgical Education: Integrating Visual Thinking Strategies into Plastic Surgery Training.

Surgical Education: Integrating Visual Thinking Strategies into Plastic Surgery Training.

Impact of ChatGPT on Learners

The current research studies about how ChatGPT, an OpenAI language model built on the GPT-3.5 architecture, effectlearners. The study provides an overview of ChatGPT and discusses potential implications for students, including being able to deliver personalized help, improve proficiency in languages, and create an accessible learning environment. The article does draw attention to several challenges with ChatGPT, including over-reliance, significant privacy and security threats, and its impact on analytical and imaginative thinking. The analysis makes use of prior studies to give an in-depth review of the effects of ChatGPT on students, both good and bad. The article ends with suggestions on how to make optimal use of ChatGPT while addressing any potential drawbacks for students.

Transformation of the imagery of Taiwan's unique cultural elements into styling design

Designing cultural goods is meaningful in connecting experiences, memories, and emotions and evoking resonance. The design imbues cultural, historical, and national symbolic emotions with products. Such products induce people's psychological responses through sensory tension and a thematic atmosphere, stimulating consumers’ desire to purchase. By exploring the imagery of Taiwan's unique cultural elements, we investigated how designed products expressed these elements, transforming them into tangible designs. We proposed the “Image Transformation Method” by (1) establishing unique image characteristics, (2) imaginative thinking, (3) strengthening associations, and (4) image transformation. The results help Designers have related concepts to translate cultural imagery into products effectively.

The Use of Loose Parts in Enhancing the Naturalist Intelligence of Early Childhood

This study aims to determine how educators can use learning materials that include loose components with students in the 4-5 and 5-6 year-old ranges in RA Al-Muhajirin Tangerang Regency. Meanwhile, the study seeks to determine whether using these materials improves students' creative and imaginative thinking capacity. At Tangerang Regency's RA Al-Muhajirin, instruction is based on loose pieces. RA Al-Muhajirin in Tangerang Regency conducted this study during the academic year 2022–2023. This study employs a qualitative research design. Where a description describes the research's findings. Techniques for gathering data include documentation, observation, and interviews. The study's findings demonstrate that RA Al-Muhajirin educators have employed Loase Parts as teaching tools.

Exploring the practice of integrating innovation and entrepreneurship teaching in visual communication design professional courses using hybrid optimization based ANFIS

The convergence of visual communication design with unique effects, graphic design, as well as virtual reality, which is becoming progressively more popular, has created a new paradigm for education in recent years. However, emerging evidence indicates that their integration into the world of learning is a somewhat gradual and intricate process. The present research proposes a novel algorithm and a functional model of artificial intelligence technology design to automatically arrange graphic language in visual communication design. In visual communication design, the goal orchestration function used to determine the display size of buffer images is the difference between the minimum and maximum values of the number of orchestration screens. An ant colony method is used in visual communication design to identify the optimal locations for visuals to be presented, and ASM semantics is used to characterize the visual languages. In order to accomplish the invention and development of a visual communication design style, the suggested algorithm has to be programmed and executed. It employs sequential decision marking to characterize the visual vocabulary and accomplishes automated organization. According to the trial results, visual saturation based on AI technology can reach up to 97%, and the average user satisfaction score is 7.65. It is evident that a creative visual thinking approach can maximize the visual communication design effect and communicate fresh design concepts.

Development of artistic and imaginative thinking of the future choreography teacher in the process of professional training

ABSTRACT The relevance of the subject matter is conditioned by the fact that an important task of professional training of future specialists in the field of choreography is the development of artistic and imaginative thinking. The purpose of the study is to consider the structural components of artistic and imaginative thinking and analyse the features of the development of artistic and imaginative thinking of future choreography teachers in the process of professional training. The basis of the methodological approach in this research work is a qualitative combination of theoretical research methods, in particular analysis, synthesis, interpretation, generalisation and abstraction used to determine theoretical approaches to explaining the concept of artistic and imaginative thinking and its structural components. The results that were obtained in the framework of this study are the substantiation of various approaches to the definition of the concept of artistic and imaginative thinking, the structural components of imaginative thinking, identification of features of its development during the professional training of future choreography teachers, and the development of a special methodology aimed at the development of artistic and imaginative thinking.

Framing Morals: A Study of Moral Values in Netflix Teen Movie Finding Ohana (2021)

In an era when Netflix is the go-to source of entertainment, many families are particular about choosing the best entertainment for them, especially for their children, that serves both entertainment and educational purposes. Movies are frequently infused with moral messages. Movies also depict and suspect morally virtuous behavior through their exploration of overarching themes, the attribution of specific traits to heroic and villainous characters, and the resolution of pivotal moral dilemmas. This study utilizes a descriptive qualitative approach of moral values found in the attribution of theme and characterization of Netflix’s teen movie Finding ‘Ohana (2021) We argue the attribution of themes and dynamic characterization of the main characters in Finding ‘Ohana (2021) that serves as a learning opportunity for young viewers to discover moral values lessons. As a result, the portrayal of moral values in Finding ‘Ohana includes truthfulness, respect, tolerance and cooperation, hard work and functionalism, respect for human life and dignity of persons, and value of the present. We propose that utilizing movies as tools for moral education, treating them as case studies of moral dilemmas, and stimulating imaginative thinking about ethical situations through open and egalitarian discussions between adults and teenagers could enhance the effectiveness of moral education for teenagers.
 Keywords: moral values, film, finding ‘Ohana, identity, children and YA literatures

Examine the interaction impact of psychological characteristics on individual entrepreneurial orientation and cyberpreneurship intentions

In a rapidly evolving digital economy, cyberpreneurship has emerged as a pivotal force driving innovation and economic growth. The study applies the Theory of Planned Behaviour in predicting entrepreneurial intention in the context of Malaysia, where the government has actively championed digital entrepreneurship. Drawing from a sample of 473 final-year university students in the Klang Valley region of Malaysia, the study investigates the impact of Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO) dimensions, namely innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness, on the intention to engage in cyberpreneurship within the context of Digital Free Trade Zones (DFTZ). The study further examines the moderation effect of psychological characteristics incorporating visionary thinking, self-efficacy, opportunism, and creativity to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing cyberpreneurial intentions. With the moderating variable, the paper presents a comprehensive model to investigate the IEO and psychological characteristics contributing to cyberpreneurship intentions and its impact on engagement in DFTZ. An empirical examination of data and hypotheses found that risk-taking (RISK) and proactiveness (PRO) are significantly related to cyberpreneurial intention. Psychological characteristics significantly proved its moderating role in its interaction with innovatiness (INNO), risk-taking (RISK), and proactivness (PRO) in influencing cyberpreneurial intentions (CYBER_PI). Innovativeness (INNO) without the influence of the moderating variable is not significantly related to cyberpreneurial intentions. Engagement with the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) through the mediating role of cyberpreneurial intentions (CYBER_PI), the innovativeness (INNO) did not succeed. On the other hand, risk-taking (RISK) and proactiveness (PRO) are found to be significant. The paper contributes to the landscape of e-commerce and digital trade literature by advancing our understanding of the factors driving individuals’ intentions to participate in cyberpreneurship and engage in DFTZ. The findings of this study provide valuable insights for policymakers, educators, and entrepreneurs alike.

Digital Tools in Education

In recent years, as we have observed, digitisation has remained a consistently debated topic, especially in education. However, we believe that increasing attention needs to be given to the issue of students' digital skills in schools, the use of digital tools in teaching, the development of creativity, and other soft skills expected of young people in the future job market. These skills are becoming increasingly crucial. In this article, we focus on using digital tools in teaching at a vocational school and their impact on the creativity of a selected research sample of students. In the first part of the article, we specifically address the definition of creativity and the specifics of a creative personality. We briefly introduce concepts such as imagination, originality, intelligence, and critical thinking. The second chapter of the article presents selected methods and techniques that support the development of students' creativity. Based on the chosen topic, we highlight the importance of digitisation and the use of ICT in teaching and briefly describe selected digital tools. The article includes an evaluation of the creativity scores of the selected research sample of students at the beginning and end of the observed period.

Info-Geometric Analysis of Gamma Distribution Manifold with Gamma Distribution Impact to Advance Satellite Earth Observations

This study aims to reveal the revolutionary Gamma Distribution Manifold (GDM) info-geometric analysis combined with potential Gamma distribution (GD) applications to advance Satellite Earth Observations (SEOs). An exposition of the GDM Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) was undertaken, together with the analytic investigation of the existence of FIM’s inverse. The derivation of GDM’s Geodesic Equations (GEs) is undertaken. The solution of the obtained Geodesic Equations is optimally complicated, and it provides more extensions to numerous open problems. Notably, the current paper provides a first-time unification between three multi-interdisciplinary fields, namely, information geometry theory, probability theory, and Satellite earth observations. Looking at the other side of the coin, the provided revolutionary approach in this current work reports the significant impact of info-geometric analysis on the probabilistic dynamics as well as the influential role of information geometry in the satellite and space industry. This poses numerous open issues that initiate a new form of contemporary unification between these inter-disciplinaries to discover another visionary thinking out of traditional statistical frames. In other words, refraining ourselves from using classical statistical frames of thinking and delving into a new info-geometric vision of statistical distributions as well as examining real-life applications of information geometry to advance satellite earth observations. The curtain is drawn on this paper by providing several challenging open problems in combination with a concluding remark and the next phase of research.

Reviews: Drawing Conclusions: Using Visual Thinking to Understand Complex Concepts in the Classroom

Reviews: Drawing Conclusions: Using Visual Thinking to Understand Complex Concepts in the Classroom

Poster as an Information Product in the System of Scholarly Communications

The poster session has become one of the types of professional events (congresses, conferences, seminars, etc.). Despite the long-term discussions about the poster as an effective tool in the scholarly communication and its comparison with the abstract it has not studied as a product of analytical and synthetic information processing. The purpose of this article is to consider theoretical questions about the poster as an information product. The traditional structure of the poster is similar to the structure of a research article (introduction, methods, results, discussion) with the only difference – the poster presents these elements in compressed form, as well as in an abstract. The article gives a comparative analysis of the poster and abstract. It shows that such features of the abstract as information content, high semantic capacity, accurate reflection of the main actual information and conclusions, etc., are characteristic of posters as well. It concludes that summarizing the results of the analytical and synthetic processing of information in the poster allows its considering as one of the types of information products and libraries can include posters in the list of their information products/services. In order to create posters, such skills as compression of information, data visualization, communicative skills, research skills and critical thinking, as well as mastering technical tools, which are in demand in the market today and are reflected in the professional standard “Specialist in Library and Information Activities”. Their development can be made by poster technology, which is already lately implemented at the Library and Information Department of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture.

USING THE GEOGEBRA ENVIRONMENT IN THE MATHEMATICAL TRAININGOF ECONOMIC STUDENTS

The use of information technology in the learning process has of learning in institutions of higher education already become commonplace, but new tools that constantly help teachers and students. In order for education to really meet the demand of modern realities, it is necessary to continuously modernize the forms and methods of education. One such most relevant assistant in teaching mathematics is the Dynamic Mathematics System GeoGebra. The article deals with the issue of modernization of methodological systems for teaching mathematical disciplines studied by students of economic specialties. in IT areas. The possibilities of the GeoGebra tool are revealed, which are important for improving the quality of mathematical training of future economists in the context of the implementation of the didactic principle of visibility and the inclusion of students in research and project activities. Particular attention is paid to the practical aspects of using GeoGebra in solving plot, applied problems associated with the use of active techniques and methods of teaching mathematical disciplines, the growth of students’ creative and intellectual activity when working with topics that require visualization of mathematical concepts and objects. The conditions of methodologically expedient inclusion of Geogebra into the practice of teaching mathematical disciplines for the preparation of economists and the modernization of already existing methodological systems for teaching mathematical disciplines are highlighted. It has been proven that the use of the interactive geometric environment GeoGebra allows visualization of abstract mathematical concepts, which contributes to the fastest possible perception of the material, a deeper understanding of it and increases interest in the discipline being studied. In addition, the use of dynamic mathematics systems both in the classroom and in non-classroom work has a positive effect on the success of students. Completing mathematical tasks using the GeoGebra environment arouses students' cognitive interest in exact sciences and promotes the development of visual and creative thinking. GeoGebra should be considered a special visual environment not only for solving specific problems related to mathematics and mathematical modeling, but also an environment for the implementation of interdisciplinary projects of an integration nature.

From a teacher education course to upper elementary classrooms and back: Revealing innate abilities of children to do teachers' mathematics

One of the key ideas of the modern-day elementary mathematics teacher education deals with mediating learning by visual thinking to enable transition from seeing and acting on concrete objects to describing the visual and the physical through culturally accepted symbolic representations. This paper shares mathematical activities designed originally for teacher candidates and used with students in upper elementary classrooms at a school in Upstate New York with minority student enrollment 97%. Because successful use of conceptual thinking by young students does have positive impact on their future teachers, connection of work in the school to a master’s level elementary mathematics education course taught by the authors is discussed. It is shown how using a spreadsheet and Wolfram Alpha allows for the research-like extension of the activities to the secondary level of mathematics education.

Bringing abstract concepts to life: A health humanities-based approach to teaching social determinants of health.

To address health inequities, emergency physicians must understand the structural underpinnings of health disparities, including social determinants of health (SDoH), and must critically reflect on the integration of SDoH into clinical practice. SDoH education should include reflective knowledge acquisition, while incorporating systemic sociohistorical forces and individual factors, such as bias, which propagate inequities but are rarely emphasized in graduate medical education (GME). The health humanities (HH), an inclusive transdisciplinary field combining arts, humanities, and social justice, may represent a novel unexplored approach toward incorporating SDoH in GME. We sought to implement and evaluate a GME HH-based curriculum focused on SDoH. An interprofessional team applied Kern's framework to create a longitudinal HH curriculum integrating narrative medicine and visual thinking strategies with evidence-based practices for addressing SDoH in clinical practice. This curriculum was implemented for 52 residents in an EM program in 2019-2020; sessions were initially held in the classroom and community and then virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives included encouraging (1) critical thinking about SDoH, (2) engagement with patients and communities, (3) self-reflection, and (4) translation of SDoH to patient care. Descriptive statistics and a constructivist paradigm were applied to results of a postcurriculum survey and focus group, respectively. A curriculum evaluation survey completed by 32/52 residents (61.5%) revealed agreement (75%-90%) that objectives were met. 93.1% of respondents thought humanities were important in residency training. Qualitative analysis of a focus group with 10 participants revealed additional impacts on individual growth, transformation of departmental culture, and transformation of patient care. Curriculum implementation was inexpensive and relied on interprofessional collaboration. The HH represent a promising collaborative framework for integrating SDoH in GME and may inspire transformation of learners' attitudes and practices in EM, though clinical impacts still need to be established.

Level Berpikir Visual Pada Komunikasi Matematis Siswa

This study is motivated by the lack of previous researchers examining the level of visual thinking in students' mathematical communication. This research aims to describe the level of visual thinking in students' mathematical communication. The research method is literature research or literature review (literature review, literature research). Research activities were carried out in a structured way through the stages of data collection, data reduction, data display, discussion to conclusion. Technically, the research steps were carried out as follows: 1) the preparation stage, determining the fixed and dependent variables, determining the data to be analysed and selecting articles that are in accordance with the variables in the title, 2) the implementation stage, searching and collecting articles, taking the results of the articles obtained, and 3) the data analysis stage, this stage is used to determine the level of visual thinking and indicators of students' mathematical communication which will be useful to determine the level of visual thinking of students' mathematical communication. The results showed that there is a relationship between the level of visual thinking and students' mathematical communication, so that the levels of visual thinking in mathematical communication are: Non Visual Level, Local Visual Level, and Global Visual Level.

STUDENT’S VISUAL THINKING ABILITY IN LEARNING LINEAR PROGRAMS USING GEOGEBRA ASSISTED LIVEWORKSHEETS

This research aims to describe students' visual thinking abilities when learning linear programming using LiveWorksheets assisted by GeoGebra for class XI students at SMA Negeri Ngoro. This research uses a quasi-experimental method with the research design used is Pre-Test Post-Test One Group Design. And the data analysis technique used is descriptive and inferential analysis. The sample for this research was 21 students of class XI IPA 3. The results of this research using descriptive analysis showed that students' visual thinking abilities increased after being taught with GeoGebra. This can be seen from the difference in the increase in pre-test and post-test scores obtained. Meanwhile, inferential analysis using the t-test also shows that there is an influence of using GeoGebra on students' visual thinking abilities. This can be seen because the Sig value obtained is 0.001 which is smaller than 0.05.

Adapting Visual Thinking Strategies as a Tool for Evaluating the Impact of a Work of Public Art

This article presents the development and application of an approach for evaluating audience response to and meaning-making from large-scale public murals, created as part of an art-science-community engagement project. The project adapted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation, a common technique in visual arts education, with a focus group style interview to investigate if the murals generated the intended meaning-making among members of the communities they depicted. We piloted a VTS-centered focus group discussion with three groups of community residents in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Thematic coding of observations in the discussion groups suggest that a VTS-centered focus group is an effective approach to evaluate audience meaning-making by prompting slow looking, protracted discussion, and offering a structure for discussion that keeps the facilitator from shaping topics of conversation. The affordances and limitations of this approach as a tool for research and evaluation of learning through public art and exhibitions is discussed.

Application of theories on thinking to build the theory of mathematical thinking in teaching high school mathematics

The paper explores the development of a theory on mathematical thinking in the teaching of Mathematics at the high school level (HSL). The first part of the paper presents characteristics of thinking, including problem-solving, direct and indirect aspects, abstraction, generalization, and its close relationship with language. The process of thinking formation is described through various stages, where direct and indirect thinking holds a significant position. The following section classifies types of thinking such as logical thinking, imaginative thinking, and argumentative thinking. Additionally, it categorizes thinking into different levels of independence. Thinking is classified based on the object, the field of perception, and the thinking method. The crucial part of the paper focuses on mathematical thinking, describing it as a creative process applying mathematical methods, concepts, and procedures to solve problems. In conclusion, the paper constructs a theory of mathematical thinking in teaching Mathematics at HSL, aiming to develop and enhance mathematical capabilities in students by grasping fundamental knowledge and skills. It encourages core mathematical abilities such as thinking, modeling and problem-solving.

THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC SAMPLES IN VISUAL CULTURE AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Academic samples are a specific cultural phenomenon created by art academies since the beginnings of art education in the late 16th century. As a fundamental method of teaching and learning it was an integral part of art education untill the age of Modernism. Although the culture of academic samples has been strongly criticized for its uniformity and eclecticism, the entire concept of providing the samples of distinguished artworks as a reference source in studying the Fine Arts still seems valid. The practical application of the academic samples is twofold – (1) it ensures the permanence and consistency of the academic training and (2) focuses the student’s attention to the aesthetic experience of the object in question. Academic samples are both physical objects, usually copies of the original artworks, and immaterial conceptions on the overall appearance of objects. The latter aspect is possibly the most disputable one because it may indoctrinate the student’s imagination with non-specific images of a single aesthetical trend. Although every period of cultural history provides its own theoretical support to the concept of academic samples, the main potential value of use of sample objects, when they are consciously selected, is that it provides the resource for visual thinking and sharpens one’s attentiveness towards the observable object or space.