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Educational Dialogues in Southeast Asian Children Literature: Reading the Vietnamese Novel Ticket to Childhood (Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, 2008) and the Indonesian Novel The Rainbow Troops: A Novel (Andrea Hirata, 2005) in Comparison

  • Trinh Dang Nguyen Huong;Chi P. Pham
    • SUVANNABHUMI
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.39-65
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    • 2024
  • Education is widely considered an essential tool for national development, particularly in Southeast Asia, in which advancing education ideally means advancing social cohesion, and security, and economic growth. This paper juxtaposes The Rainbow Troops: A Novel (2005, hereafter The Rainbow Troops) by Indonesian writer Andrea Hirata and Cho tôi xin một vé đi tuổi thơ (Ticket to Childhood, 2008) by Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, understanding their potentially generated dialogue about idealized education. Reading character constructions and narrative flows against educational policies and realities of Vietnam and Indonesia in particular and Southeast Asia at large reveals criticism about the true goals of education programs pertaining to children. Specifically, they provoke in readers questions about the role of education as a tool for national development appropriate to each political and economic context and the respect for the psychological, intellectual, and physical development of children.

A Study on the Conceptual Design of Smart App Authoring Tool

  • Chang, Young-Hyun
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 2015
  • IT environment gets more complicated in terms of open platform, network standards, device design and hardware, etc. Smart network and application are in the fields of corporate as well as national competition for future fusion technology. In development environment focused on computers, the ideas of authoring tool have been presented in terms of improved software productivity. In smart environment where subdividing works are consecutively done, current authoring tool should be effectively updated for effective development of programs and easier access to business works. The basic concept of a new conceptual App development tool, Smart App Authoring Tool, which has been designed in this study and enables to apply on-site requirements to smart phones, is to develop Apps on the level using easy-to-learn Word or Excel in a computer. Therefore, this study is intended to design a conceptual Smart App Authoring Tool to optimize the cost and time for developing and maintaining new application services under various smart phone platform environments. Based on the performance of smart app authoring tool herein, every people can develop a smart app program at moderate level. So this paper have designed a conceptual smart app authoring tool. This study presented educational efficiency of the authoring tool by developing business Apps under various business environments and applying them under university and high school environments.

Class Design Applying Flipped Learning Combined with Project-Based Learning: Focusing on Digital Painting Tool for Class (플립러닝형 프로젝트 기반학습을 적용한 수업 설계: Digital Painting Tool 수업을 중심으로)

  • Sung, Rea;Kong, Hyunhee
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.29-45
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    • 2022
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution era requires people to have the ability of integrated thinking, critics, sensitivity, and creativity in an integrated manner. Therefore, teaching methods are expected to become more suitable for the trend. In this belief, current teacher-leading education method should move to students' self motivating one and consist of programs in which students voluntarily involve. In this reason, this study suggests FPBL educational method model that is combines project-based learning with flipped learning by analysing preceding research and digital painting tool class was designed by applying it. As a result of applying the designed class model to the class, all of the class satisfaction, effectiveness, and interaction were evaluated positively. Problems such as limitations of project classes due to non-face-to-face classes, large amount of learning before class, and reduced concentration during class were found. Therefore, when the FPBL class model is conducted non-face-to-face, it will be necessary to further strengthen the role of the instructor, provide lecture videos summarizing the core contents, and improve concentration by providing active participation and fun using various digital tools. The result of the study looks significant by confirming the possibility of applying FPBL model not only in design education but also other educational settings.

Design Implications for Teachers' Tools in Differentiated Instruction through Case Studies

  • CHA, Hyunjin
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.55-74
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    • 2013
  • The diversity of students is getting increased in the contemporary classroom. To deal with the diversity, differentiated instruction (DI) should be considered as a way of providing alternative approaches to content, process and product according to the students' readiness, interest, and learning needs. Teachers have problems and difficulties in supporting different student's needs. In fact, teachers need proven tools including framework, guidelines or computing systems to help to practice DI in real context. According to the activity theory, tools influence on how people act and think and even their social practice, playing a crucial role in mediating the activities with people. In DI practice, there are also some studies about physical and abstract tools, but they have been not widely utilized by teachers in real schools. It means that more innovative tool to promote DI might be required. Therefore, to design a better tool to mediate the DI activities with teacher, case studies were conducted. In order to elicit the design implications, two physical and two abstract tools for DI practice were analyzed as case studies. Through the analysis of the case studies, eight design implications better to facilitate DI practice were suggested. This study has implications in suggesting design guidelines for teachers' tools to facilitate their DI practice by analyzing case studies in DI practices for an innovative tool in the educational practice.

A Study on the Interface Design of Preschool Children Educational Course-ware Based on User Experience and TAM

  • Deng, Qianrong;Cho, Dong-min
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.528-536
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to help preschool children in the interface design of educational game APP at the psychological level. The conceptual model is constructed through the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to explore the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use when children are playing educational game APP. The empirical study was conducted in the form of questionnaires collected after children used game. The research subjects were 3-6 years old children, and the research tool was the game app. Data collection under the guidance of their parents. The research shows that children educational game experience elements can effectively increase preschool children's psychological perception of educational games. Perceived ease of use also increases trust in educational games for children. The results were as follows: 1. Cronbach's Alpha and KMO were 0.969 and 0.955, and the P value was significant, which passed the reliability and validity test. 2. Through confirmatory factor analysis (Model fit index, Composite reliability, discriminant validity), we found that user experience is closely related to perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. 3. The path analysis of the relationship proves that perceived ease of use play a key role in trusting preschool children educational game APP.

A Proposed Conception of Technical Solutions to Address the Educational Loss in Mathematics in the Fifth Grade of Primary School

  • Ahmad Almassaad;Abdullah ALSHdaied
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2023
  • The study aimed to provide a proposed conception of technical solutions to address the educational loss in mathematics in the fifth grade of primary school, and the study adopted the descriptive approach. male and female teachers, and to achieve the study objective, the researcher built a tool for the study, a "questionnaire", in which he used the comprehensive inventory method, and the results of the study showed: identifying the learning outcomes that represent an educational loss, and identifying the learning outcomes that are considered essential in teaching and learning mathematics for the fifth grade of primary school. In the event that it is not achieved by students, it is considered an educational loss that may affect the future of students' education and learning. Because it is a basis for later experiences in mathematics in other classes, and the study also found the effectiveness of the proposed visualization of technical solutions provided to address the educational loss in mathematics for the fifth grade: (short electronic tests, YouTube channel, homework, educational platform, electronic worksheets, and communication channels).

Evaluation of Passive Sampler as a Useful Tool for Environmental Education (환경교육의 도구로서 간이 측정기의 활용에 관한 연구)

  • 전의찬;송민종
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.252-261
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    • 1998
  • Since 1980's during which environmental pollution became serious enough to urge various types of environmental educations in many areas. But, most emphasis has been put on theoretical education. Even field education training mostly focused on water pollution. Therefore, simple air pollution monitoring system was needed for better field education in air pollution. In this study, we evaluated Passive Sampler as an useful tool for teaching air pollution in field. Students have found passive sampler very effective tool. Recent comparative study of auto-monitoring and passive sampler networks suggested a potential use of passive sampler as an useful tool for environmental education. In this study, the correlation between two sets of values appears very high judging from the regression slope of 0.92 and correlation coefficient of 0.91 However, inexpensive Passive sampler with easy-to-operate colorimeter, has not been used in environmental education partially because large scale fluctuation in time and space characteristic to air pollution has been overlooked so that the sampler has not been tested for an effective educational tool. Passive sampler certainly deserves further in depth research as an effective air monitoring system, and better attention to its usefulness to teach students and public.

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The Development of an Educational Robot and Scratch-based Programming

  • Lee, Young-Dae;Kang, Jeong-Jin;Lee, Kee-Young;Lee, Jun;Seo, Yongho
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.8-17
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    • 2016
  • Scratch-based programming has come to be known as an effective programming tool because of its graphic instruction modules, which are designed to be assembled like the famous LEGO building blocks. These building block-like structures allow users to more easily program applications without using other more difficult programming languages such as C or Java, which are text-based. Therefore, it poses a good opportunity for application in educational settings, especially in primary schools. This paper presents an effective approach to developing an educational robot for use in elementary schools. Furthermore, we present the method for scratch programming based on the external modules need for the implementation of robot motion. Lastly, we design a systematic curriculum, titled "Play with a Robot," and propose guidelines to using the educational programming language Scratch.

Affecting factors of learner's attitude and intention to use of SNS in college education (대학 수업에서의 SNS 활용에 대한 학습자의 태도와 지속적 이용의도 변인 연구)

  • Jun, Byoungho
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2016
  • SNS has been emerging as an educational tool, because of its features such as discussion on course topics, feedback from peers and group collaboration. The purpose of this study is to investigate the affecting factors of learner's attitude and intention to use of SNS in college education. Based on prior studies self-efficacy, educational expectancy, subjective norm, habit and enjoyment were identified as affecting factors. According to the results of multiple regression analysis, all factors(self-efficacy, educational expectancy, subjective norm, habit and enjoyment) were found to be significantly related to the learner's attitude and intention to use. Result shows that educational expectancy and enjoyment are much more significantly related to the learner's attitude and intention to use of SNS in college education. It can provide a guideline of effective strategy for SNS utilization in college education.

Power Electronics Open-Source Educational Platform

  • Pozo-Ruz, Ana;Aguilera, F. David Trujillo;Moron, M. Jose;Rivas, Ernesto
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.842-850
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    • 2012
  • Learning Power Electronics is essential in both electrical and electronic engineering fields and the introductory courses are similar in many universities. Taking this premise into account, an educational computer-aided platform for power electronics will be presented in this paper. This educational platform includes an e-book, a set of power electronics animations, Java simulations, as well as several hands-on training sessions. The main advantages of this platform are twofold. First, all necessary teaching tools are combined on a single platform. And secondly, access to this platform is available free of charge and with no complicated registration requirements. In addition to traditional teaching techniques, the use of this platform has demonstrated an increase in student participation and has consistently improved their academic performance. Data consist of surveys, which guarantee both reliability and validity through psychometric techniques.