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Using Positive Visual Stimuli to Lighten The Online Learning Experience through In Class Questioning
More informationUsing in-class questions is an efficient instructional strategy to keep abreast of the state of student learning in a class. Some studies have found that discussing in-class questions in synchronous learning is helpful. These studies demonstrated that synchronous questions not only provide students with timely feedback, but also allow teachers to change the pedagogy adaptively. However, some studies have also shown negative results of synchronous questions in that students may resist being questioned because of anxiety. Therefore, this paper proposes an idea of showing students funny images in order to reward them for providing correct answers. The effect of connecting questions with funny image rewards was examined by collecting data on student test scores, on facial expressions and on electroencephalogram (EEG) responses elicited using this strategy. The data on students' facial expressions indicated that being presented with funny images for correct answers consistently helps to arouse positive emotions in participants. Also, the data on the EEG responses showed that the participants receiving the rewarded questions demonstrated a trend toward increasing levels of attention and relaxation. However, the results also revealed that significant improvements in test scores were not apparent regardless of whether or not amusing visual stimuli were used. The findings imply that showing funny images as a stimulus enhances students' affective states in student-teacher interactions during online learning activities.
Keywords: positive visual stimuli, in-class question, online learning, synchronous learning platform, funny image
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The current rise of cultural studies as a groundbreaking paradigm within the human sciences constitutes, without any doubt, an important medium of re-examination of the “virtual” in this light. To us, this epistemological framework appears, today, to be the one best suited to directly allow for the understanding that the adjective “numérique” is, in itself, neither life-saver, nor modernizer, nor creator – the cutting edge of modernity defining itself in this framework only by the outdatedness of the critical posture which brings to light certain sleeping virtualities of the history of thought, such as the paradoxical semiotic “virtuality” and “materiality” that Saussure and Cassirer left us as a legacy, mediums of understanding our new cultural realities.
Keywords: sémiotique des cultures, virtualité, matérialité, œuvre, herméneutique, semiotics of culture, virtuality, materiality, œuvre, hermeneutic
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In January 2015, as part of my post-doctoral research into the autobiographical work of the Brazilian-Israeli filmmaker, David Perlov, I spend a month in Tel Aviv, Israel. I arrive with my family – my parents and my sister – and we rent an apartment. The afternoon of our arrival, a tempest of wind, rain and sand prevents us from leaving the house for a few days. In the confines of the apartment, between family discussions, we follow the television pictures of the latest events. But we can't speak Hebrew. Bemused, faced with pictures of the white storm paralysing the country, we learn about the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the city we had only just passed through on our way to Israel from Brazil. But we can't understand. Everything, in that situation, became impenetrable : from the television screen to the cityscape through the window giving nothing away.
Keywords: Israël, Tel-Aviv, David Perlov, mémoire, Israël, Tel-Aviv, David Perlov, memory
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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity. In an ever more digital and connected world, do we still need places of books in our towns, colleges, or schools? If libraries aren't about books, what are they about? In Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World, Lankes walks you through what to expect out of your library. Lankes argues that, to thrive, communities need libraries that go beyond bricks and mortar, and beyond books and literature. We need to expect more out of our libraries. They should be places of learning and advocates for our communities in terms of privacy, intellectual property, and economic development. Expect More is a rallying call to communities to raise the bar, and their expectations, for great libraries.
Keywords: bibliothèques, bibliothéconomie, communauté, apprentissage, innovation, création de connaissances, librairies, librarianship, community, learning, innovation, knowledge creation
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