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What we learned from our conversation with Reggio educators (Chapter 2 from Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach)
No full textThis chapter focuses on the researchers’ analyses and interpretations of a two-hour recorded conversational interview conducted with a group of six Reggio educators in May 2019. The conversation was a rare and special opportunity to have a lengthy dialogue with a cross-section of Reggio educators, to ask questions and to learn more about their pedagogical approaches to working with emergent multilingual children and their families. Key concepts and threads of discussion from the interview included the importance of building trusting relationships with children and families who are newcomers, developing their sense of belonging, learning from and with them through the pedagogy of listening, and using the theory of the hundred languages to support non-verbal expression, interactions, shared experience, and, eventually, shared oral language, translanguaging, and exchange. The chapter serves as a springboard for the rest of the book, which further investigates and continues the conversation, the circulation of ideas and multiple perspectives, which help us to understand how to affirm the rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual language learners and their families to high quality early education.https://digitalcommons.lewisu.edu/education_fac-books/1006/thumbnail.jp
Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes Through Immersive Group Counseling Pedagogy
No full textPedagogical approaches to graduate level group counseling courses are varied as some programs stress traditional knowledge-based pedagogy over experiential pedagogy. Additionally, counselor educators have debated the ethics of student-led versus instructor-led role plays. This program will provide an overview of research and current trends in group counseling pedagogy. The presenter will identify the benefits of immersive group counseling pedagogy which provides counselors-in-training with opportunities to lead groups and develop critical leadership skills
Design of “Soft” Cleaning Processes for Emerging Substrates via Stimuli Responsive Chemistry
No full textThe Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) process (polishing and substrate cleaning) results in defects that can be classified as mechanical (i.e., scratching), chemical (i.e., corrosion), or physiochemical (i.e., adsorbed contaminants) according to the mechanism of formation. This work will focus on the rationale design of p-CMP cleaning systems for emerging materials (silicon carbide (SiC)) that activate the cleaning chemistry via external stimuli such as megasonic energy. More specifically, using megasonic energy in the presence of supramolecular assemblies such as micelles and vesicles was employed for a “soft” (low shear force) defect removal process. Results indicate a correlation between the structure of the “soft” cleaning additives and induced megasonic energy on overall simulated defect removal. It was determined that effective particle removal was a second-order kinetic process with a concentration dependency (i.e. above and below the critical micelle concentration (CMC)) emerging as a key driver for the defect removal rate. Although, one apparent drawback is the generation of post-cleaning carbon residue due to the adsorption of the supramolecular structures to the SiC substrate
The metaphorical context of the atelier as a border crossing space: Exploring relationships in young children\u27s languaging and translanguaging processes (Chapter 11 from Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach)
No full textThe context of the atelier promotes the culture of imagination and creativity as an integral aspect of learning. Notable is the potential of the atelier as a motivator for change, not just as a physical space but also for conceptually promoting new ways of doing school, beyond an emphasis on reading, writing, and mathematics. In this chapter, three teacher educators representing distinct disciplines of art education, TESOL, and early childhood bilingual education, reflect on and interpret the context of the atelier as a space for the border crossing of languages and transdisciplinary research. Border crossing is a construct that denotes crossing over and in/between a hundred languages during the meaning-making process. The atelier is a context for the interconnected nature of languages and for approaches that contribute to transdisciplinary and translanguaging possibilities. In the final section, the authors highlight the atelier as an intersection of their fields of knowledge and what this might offer teacher education programs.https://digitalcommons.lewisu.edu/education_fac-books/1001/thumbnail.jp
Empowered Recovery: Motivational Interviewing Skills for Substance Abuse
No full textSubstance use and addiction are among the hardest to treat. Why? It’s all about readiness and motivation to change behavior. This is the part addicts really struggle with – MI is your answer! Learn all the classic MI skills and how to effectively apply them in your substance abuse treatment with clients at all various stages of change.
Motivational interviewing is a commonly utilized theory in substance abuse treatment to assist clients in their path toward recovery. This workshop will teach participants strategies to engage clients in treatment, learn how to resolve ambivalence, and empower clients to make behavioral changes that last beyond treatment. The workshop will begin with an overview of the core principles of Motivational Interviewing and how it is used in substance abuse treatment. Essential motivational interviewing components such as building a strong therapeutic alliance, evoking change talk, enhancing self-efficacy, and goal setting and action planning will be covered. Participants in this workshop will learn the main principles of motivational interviewing, along with practical insights to apply with clients. This workshop is for counselors who are interested in increasing their therapeutic skills and implementing Motivational Interviewing techniques with clients
Slurry Activation for Enhanced Surface Redox Reactions in CMP
No full textA novel add-on hardware device is placed near the point of slurry dispense that can instantaneously activate slurry performance during polishing via megasonic irradiation. This new technology (Flucto-CMP® is able to overcome the inherent polisher-slurry weaknesses such as wafer-level defects, process vibrations, cost of ownership, slurry waste, remval rate (RR), and RR selectivity. Flucto-CMP® has been successfully applied to various types of CMP slurries resulting in significant increases in the removal rates of copper, SiC, borosilicate hard mask, ILD, TiN, and silicon carbide through chemical alteration of the passivation layer needed for material removal. Specifically, for copper CMP, using Flucto-CMP®, we see an up to 31% boost in RR which is well correlated with the amount of reactive oxidizing species generated through irradiation as well as the measured relative indentation depth of the passivation layer. In addition to boosts in RR, for copper, we see a 50X drop in the variance of shear force and a 5X drop in the variance of normal force when Flucto-CMP® is used. This dramatic reduction in process vibration for copper soft-landing processes ought to reduce wafer-level defects. Much greater rate improvements are observed when polishing SiC, and borosilicate hard masks
Towards the Utilization of Parallel Programming to Speed up RAM Forensics
No full textMemory forensics uses volatile digital artifacts as evidence about criminal activities. Analyzing captured memory dumps for volatile data requires time and effort. This paper studies the utilization of parallel programming to speed up RAM forensics. It presents a performance-based evaluation of parallel programming in the domain of memory forensics and compares sequential and parallel approaches to speed up the memory analysis process. First, it evaluates the sequential approach and uses it as a base case for further parallel approaches. Second, it evaluates two of the parallel approaches that can be performed on a typical user machine. Our experiments evaluate the use of two parallel programming paradigms: the in-process parallelization approach using OpenMP, and the inter-process parallelization approach using MPI. Our results compare the performance of the sequential approach, OpenMP thread-based approach, and MPI process-based approach. Experimentations compare the performance of three scenarios using six files of different sizes and various numbers of threads and/or processes. The results show that the use of MPI is slightly better than OpenMP approaches on the use of 2 and 4 processes/threads. However, when the number of processors/threads is increased to 8 and 16, OpenMP slightly outperforms the MPI approach. Additionally, the parallelization approach using OpenMP and MPI provides 3X to 5X speed up over the traditional sequential approach. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that this speed-up is achieved on traditional user machines without the use of HPC computers
Measuring the Effects of Document Size on RAM Artifacts: A Memory Forensics Approach
No full textCybercrimes have significantly increased due to the rapid adoption of software and technology in almost every aspect of our lives. The main memory or RAM of a computing machine is often used to provide critical information about the recent system activities, including the running processes, network connections, used passwords, and encryption keys. Moreover, RAM may contain information about the contents of recently used documents and digital files. Therefore, this paper is focused on studying the RAM-based digital artifacts of different sizes of computer documents. It evaluates the amount of document-based digital artifacts that are recovered from the RAM of a confiscated machine. Our methodology analyzes various memory dumps and learns about the digital artifacts in relation to the contents of a document that might be related to a criminal investigation. Two different usage scenarios are assumed: The first assumes that the RAM dump is created while the document is being opened and viewed whereas the second one assumes the RAM dump is created shortly after the document is being closed. Experiments show that the recovered contents are significantly affected by the used document size; the amount of recovered volatile artifacts of a used document is impacted by the original document size. Results show that the ratio of the recovered contents is very close for various document sizes during the same usage scenario. Additionally, closing the document will reduce the amount of recovered content, but still allow for a significant ratio to be considered as evidence of the actual use of the document on the confiscated machine
Rethinking the Image of the Child and Re-imaging Schools
No full textOver the last few years, there have been many calls to re-imagine schools. These recurring calls for reconceptualization of schools only intensified during the pandemic: What might schools look like post pandemic? How can we re-conceptualize schools and move away from antiquated practice that was initially built based on an agrarian society that had to address the influx of immigrants who were diverse in culture and language? The initial iteration of schooling in the United States was focused on the melting-pot ideology of assimilating immigrant and indigenous students into a mythical American ideology. The original system wasn\u27t concerned with respecting the identity of the child. In this article, I provide a set of “provocations” for educators to consider in their own learning spaces
Moving the conversation forward (Chapter 15 from Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach)
No full textThrough each chapter of this book, we advocated for a transformative lens on early childhood education which values the linguistic and cultural repertoires of learners who speak different languages at home other than at school. In this final chapter, we highlight select findings from the research and practice examined in our book that we believe can move us forward and push the boundaries of our conversation about supporting the rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual learners and families. We challenge the traditional approach of highlighting English as the target language in the classroom, while sacrificing the cultural and linguistic rights of children and their families. We unravel the whitewashedness and middle-class White privilege that penetrates our early childhood centers. We challenge the covert and overt hidden curricular assumption of English being the most important object of learning, which ignores the need for validating the family literacy and home languages of children. We recognize and encourage more research on the critical importance of teaching with cultural humility and being mindful about unconscious bias and stereotyping. Furthermore, we must confront racist, reductionist, and deficit perspectives regarding cultures and languages. We aim to push the boundaries of our thinking, our theories of change, and our theories of learning by challenging ourselves to consider radical change, as Lee-Johnson stated in Chapter 10, to contest inequities that exist in the power structure and hierarchies of our typical U.S. contexts.https://digitalcommons.lewisu.edu/education_fac-books/1007/thumbnail.jp