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Towards a collaborative taxonomy of Tools, Languages and Environments in K-12 Computing Education
No full textOutreach in Computing Education: a Design Toolkit
Full text link2021 - 2022In our society, learners face the constantly growing world evolution, its technological progress and the big questions that innovations spark. The increasing demand of computing competences reflects the spread of targeted training to broaden the cultural and technical instruction. Computing Education supplies the theoretical foundation to these formative objectives, in order to ensure the achievement of a specific knowledge, skills and digital citizenship. Besides formal institutions and their curricula, there is also a complementary world of Computing Education Outreach Programs, led outside school in non-formal and informal learning environments. The contribution of my thesis fits into the perimeter of these initiatives, especially those addressing the students, ranging from primary until the end of high school and before accessing the post-secondary pipeline, also called K-12. I will provide a proposal of a design toolkit to support Outreach Programs designers in K-12 Computing Education, both in the instructional design stage and in the analysis and resolution of the most common critical issues. Technology is shaping our lives at an increas ing rate and is modeling the way we live in our world. Communications, social media, automa tion, transactions, video games, are just some of the main purposes in which technologies take form. In this context, the demand of spe cific training in the field of Computer Science is growing, and it allows an aware and com petent attitude in addressing the contents and variety of these technologies. Computing Education is the discipline and research field that deals with these formative needs, from Computational Thinking to ad vanced Information Technology literacy, from professional skills to the balancing of the dig ital divide issues in order to ensure a civic participation in the society. .. [edited by Author]Nella nostra società, chi impara affronta la costante evoluzione del mondo, il suo progresso tecnologico e le grandi domande che pone la tecnologia. La domanda incrementale di competenze informatiche riflette la diffusione di una formazione mirata, che possa ampliare l’istruzione culturale e tecnica. L’Educazione Informatica (Computing Education) fornisce il fondamento teorico a questi obiettivi formativi, al fine di garantire il raggiungimento di una specifica conoscenza, delle competenze e della cittadinanza digitale. Parallelamente alle istituzioni formali e ai loro programmi di studio, esiste anche un mondo complementare di programmi di sensibilizzazione (Outreach Programs) sull’insegnamento dell’informatica, svolti al di fuori della scuola, in ambienti di apprendimento non formale e informale. Il contributo della mia tesi si inserisce nel perimetro di queste iniziative, soprattutto quelle rivolte agli studenti che vanno dalla primaria fino alla fine delle superiori e prima di accedere al percorso post-secondario o universitario, detti anche K-12. Fornirò una proposta di toolkit di progettazione per supportare i ricercatori sugli Outreach Programs in K-12 Computing Education, sia nella fase di progettazione didattica che nell’analisi e risoluzione delle criticità più comuni. La tecnologia sta plasmando le nostre vite a un ritmo crescente e sta modellando il modo in cui viviamo nel nostro mondo. Comuni cazioni, social media, automazioni, transazioni, videogiochi, sono solo alcuni degli scopi prin cipali con cui le tecnologie prendono forma. In questo contesto cresce la domanda di for mazione specifica nel campo dell’Informatica, che consente un atteggiamento consapevole e competente nell’affrontare i contenuti e la vari età di queste tecnologie. L’insegnamento dell’Informatica (Computing Education) è la disciplina e l’ambito di ricerca che si occupa di queste esigenze formative, dal Pensiero Computazionale (Computational Thinking) all’alfabetizzazione informatica avan zata, dalle competenze professionali al bilanci amento dei problemi di divario digitale (digital divide) al fine di garantire la partecipazione civica alla società. .. [a cura dell'Autore]XXXV cicl
Towards an Open Journal of Design. A proposal of a collaborative and transdisciplinary review system
No full textWe propose an editing and reviewing model for a design journal, managed by a transdisciplinary community. This review system complements the double blind review and provides a more plural evaluation of the articles. We present the phases of the collaborative review process, the composition criteria of the scientific committee, the operational phases of the review and a comparative analysis of the possible digital platforms on which to implement the journal
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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