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Fostering the integration of information literacy and journalism practice: a long-term study of journalism students
Get PDFJournalism students draw on a range of information skills and resources to complete both practical and academic assignments. A five-year qualitative study gathered annual reflections on information use from a total of 215 students. A thematic analysis of the statements made by students demonstrates the value of reconfiguring information literacy (IL) instruction to align with the professional needs and practices in their discipline. Deliberate scaffolding encouraged students to transfer ways of understanding and using information between personal, academic, and journalistic contexts. Student statements provide evidence that many are integrating formal learning with experience to develop IL that serves their academic and professional information needs. The long-term nature of the study also provides evidence of students developing their understanding of threshold concepts in IL and internalising those concepts into their practice. Insights from the study may inform changes to instruction within and beyond professional programmes to encourage transfer of IL skills and knowledge between students’ personal, professional, and academic information ecosystems
Innovative Hint-Scaffolded KM E-learning Framework To Increase Meaningful Learning And Multi-Dimensional Thinking
Get PDFRemote and rural communities are often disadvantaged in
terms of access to infrastructure, information and
opportunities. The authors are concerned with two specific
problems crucial to promoting sustainable online learning
for the remote community. First, presenting learning
content may not be sufficient to help students to improve
their learning as they are not competent to make meaning
from the information presented. Second, students are
often not competent to articulate information from
different perspectives or discuss complex issues. The
authors’ contributions are in four aspects (i) instructional
design of learning activities, especially role playing (ii)
design of learning content (iii) design of hint-based
teaching-learning strategies to scaffold learning and (iv)
design of technology-enhanced collaborative learning. This
Knowledge Management (KM) framework has been used
for the development of an instructional model
incorporating a germane pedagogical setup which
coalesces interactive learning and learner-centered factors.
The process was illustrated with a case study from SMK
Bario, Sarawak (Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan, local
secondary school) with Form 2 students (14-15 years old
) to show that the recommended matrix method has
been applied to make a successful transition to a blended
learning format that combines face-to-face sessions with
distance communication. Findings indicated that students
were able to filter and consider multiple perspectives,
skillfully represent the problem in more ways than one,
capable to quickly change focus and goals as the situation
required and able to post questions about complicated
and complex issues in open class discussions. The authors
investigated whether KM processes, e-learning principles
and Human Factors Engineering will promote sustainable
online learning for the remote community
Laterality Reviewed
Get PDFDrawing is a universe - generous, pliable, amenable and able to speak for itself. The author’s PhD project, Design Leads (2012), addressed how design students conveyed ‘supra-rational’ modes of practice (intuitive, tacit, material and so forth) through drawing. The research asked: what did experiments in drawing and writing, performed within a group context, reveal about rhythms of design practice? And how might such drawing-designing modes impact on writing practices? This summary describes those rhythms of practice and the correlation with McGilchrist’s picture of ‘right hemisphere’ behaviour. It continues with examples of drawings and writings produced
Art as Place
Get PDFMy project proposal was to inhabit a gallery museum space for a period of few days to few months depending on how I wished to engage with the space. I wanted to experience how I could work in a three dimensional space
Drawing and Mathematics
Get PDFIn this paper we consider various ways that drawing occurs in mathematics. We describe, and give examples of, drawing-based mathematical proof: in this context drawing is a language for communicating mathematical reasoning. We then describe our artistic collaboration, where drawing functions both as a language for interdisciplinary communication, essential to the formative process, and as the artwork itself
Ushered, Left; Curtailed, Right
Get PDFThis article’s title follows a realization, in practice, of the tendency of eye-dominance in vision. The realization comes through a process of drawing in-situ around Hoamji Lake in Chungu, South Korea, written commentary on the drawings themselves as part of the in-situ experience, and more analytical reflection after the event. The process was repeated on the basis that experience would thereby accrue and deepen. The experiential component of the drawings, made in response to the question of how drawing on site, can inform how one thinks about place and space and how this adds authenticity to the visualization of place. Written reflection on the drawings concerns the interrelationship of drawing from observable phenomena and visual sensory perception. The activity itself, of drawing, enables the latter’s consideration, and such a focus in turn informs how the drawings are made, appear, and comment on the in-situ location. The article’s theoretical markers concern philosophy and ideas of perception and the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, particularly in the context of articulation of space
Shop Drawings
Get PDFIn this paper I will explore how the process of drawing in-situ can help to define and influence the particular practices of the citizen architect; the designer, whose approach to architecture is bound and influenced by their location of residence. My method of investigation will be through the presentation of a situated drawing of my own. The site for the drawing is Byker in Newcastle upon Tyne, a location that holds a history of situated practice. During the redevelopment of the 1970s a group of architects, led by Ralph Erskine, lived and worked on site. Their experience, of an overlap of their professional and social commitment, provides the start point for my investigation. In 2011, attempting to learn from their approach, I took up residence in Byker. The drawing situated is a Nolli plan of Byker, drawn directly onto my dining room table. In the drawing the personal and professional interweave, offering new insights into a particular approach to architectural practice, which I will draw out through the paper. I also argue that the representation of public and private spaces of the city, within the Nolli plan, reflect two positions of relating to the site based on the architect’s citizenship within the site. Finally I propose that the situatedness of the drawing influences the architect’s practices by reconnecting them to a phenomenological experience of site as well as to its social and political context
