数字阅读泛化对大学生学习能力影响分析

随着时代的进步,科技日新月异地发展以及网络的普及化,我们迎来了全新的数字化时代,人们的工作学习生活已经网络化了。阅读作为人们获取知识最基本的手段,强烈地受到了网络新媒体的冲击。在高校中,数字阅读已经成为大学生获取信息、进行交流的主要方式,并呈现出泛化的倾向,这也冲击着大学生的学习能力。文章在观察大学生数字化阅读现状的基础上,分析其利与弊,积极探讨如何更好地利用微信、微博、QQ等信息传播手段,规避弊端,提升学习效果,增强理性阅读能力,丰富自身知识结构。     

Claymation for Collective Intelligence and Intergenerational Learning in an Educational Environment

Elementary students, volunteering older adults, and university students use their collective intelligence as they engage in intergenerational learning during an after-school enrichment activity producing Claymation videos. Participant reflections, completed questionnaires, and candid photos document learning and relationship building, suggesting intergenerational visual art engagement as a replicable method of lifelong learning for multiages in a school environment.     

Disequilibrium multi-dividing ontology learning algorithm

As an effective tool for data storage, processing, and computing, ontology has been used in many fields of computer science and information technology. By means of its powerful performance on semantic query and knowledge extraction, domain ontology has been built on various disciplines such as biology, pharmaceutics, geography, chemistry, etc. and been smoothly employed for their engineering applications. In these ontology applications, we aim to get an optimal ontology function which maps each ontology to a real number and then determine the similarity between concepts by the distance of their corresponding real numbers. In former ontology learning approaches, all the instances in the training sample have equal status in the learning process. In this article, we present the disequilibrium multi-dividing ontology algorithm in which the important ontology data will be highlighted during the learning, and the relevant ontology data tend to be eliminated. Four experiments are designed to test the serviceability of our disequilibrium multi-dividing algorithm from angles of ontology similarity measuring and ontology mapping construction.     

Precarious lives and resistant possibilities: the labour of people with learning disabilities in times of austerity

This paper draws on feminist and queer philosophers? discussions of precarity and employment, too often absent from disability studies, to explore the working lives of people with learning disabilities in England in a time of austerity. Recent policy shifts from welfare to work welcome more disabled people into the job market. The reality is that disabled people remain under-represented in labour statistics and are conspicuously absent in cultures of work. We live in neoliberal-able times where we all find ourselves precarious. But, people with learning disabilities experience high levels of uncertainty in every aspect of their lives, including work, relationships and community living. Our research reveals an important analytical finding: that when people with learning disabilities are supported in imaginative and novel ways they are able to work effectively and cohesively participate in their local communities (even in a time of cuts to welfare). We conclude by acknowledging that we are witnessing a global politics of precarity and austerity. Our urgent task is to redress the unequal spread of precaritization across our society that risks leaving people with learning disabilities experiencing disproportionately perilous lives. One of our key recommendations is that it makes no economic sense (never mind moral sense) to pull funding from organisations that support people with intellectual disabilities to work.     

Learning disabled students and access to accommodations: socioeconomic status,capital, and stigma

In the 1990s, Canadian universities began implementing policies to accommodate learning disabled students. While such policies appear to make post-secondary education more accessible, students must manage considerable complexity and absorb social and financial costs to receive accommodations. Through interviews with learning disabled students, this research explores the effects of socio-economic status (SES) on how, or whether, students access accommodations at a Nova Scotian university. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu and Goffman, this study suggests that SES affects students’ abilities to navigate the accommodation process successfully, and that accommodation policies, while important, may not ensure equal access to accommodations.     

Named social workers – better social work for learning disabled people?

In 2016, the Department of Health in England announced that it would pilot the role of Named Social Worker. We chose to be part of the pilot because we regularly witness too many people’s lives being defined by restrictions imposed by professionals. Erroneous associations between the concepts of risk and danger have become the norm in how learning disabled people’s decision-making is perceived and managed. However, we believe social workers educated in the social model of disability and grounded more generally in disability studies offer an alternative perspective. The pilot is an opportunity to test our hypothesis that social work practice rooted in social model thinking can successfully challenge oppressive practice and disabling barriers, thus providing the opportunity for social workers to genuinely be ‘servants not masters’ in the lives of disabled people.     

‘A person with some sort of learning disability’: the aetiological narrative and public construction of Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle’s audition for the television talent competition Britain’s Got Talent attracted global attention and widespread media discourse. In this article, I would like to examine this discourse to consider how Boyle’s success troubles conventional constructions of both learning disability and celebrity.

I extend Ciara Evans’s recognition that learning disability is invisible to reflect on the media responses to Boyle’s impairment. This reflection notes that even within Boyle’s own discourse, she is loosely positioned as having ‘some sort of learning disability’.

Detailed attention is given to the aetiological account of the ‘brain damage’ Boyle ‘suffered’ at birth. The analysis will consider the correlation with scientific discourse, trauma theory and the imposed biography to suggest that the construction of Boyle as both contained and unpredictable is already implicit in the aetiological narrative.     

基于网络多媒体环境的大学生英语自主学习能力研究

以计算机和网络为核心的现代信息技术正影响和改变着大学英语教学,将传统课堂教学与学习者的个性化自主学习有机地结合起来,将基于多媒体网络环境的＂自主学习＂教学模式应用于大学英语教学,以学生为中心,培养学生自主学习能力,才能使学生真正地提高英语应用能力,进而对提高我国大学英语教学质量,对我国今后的英语教学工作产生重要作用。     

浅议大学生英语听力理解能力的培养

听力理解能力作为摄取信息的一个重要能力,在语言技能的学习和认知发展过程中具有基础性作用。但受我国具体国情和长期以来重知识轻能力的教育理念的影响,听力一直是国内学生学习英语中的薄弱环节。高校英语教师有必要学习国内外先进的教学理论,培养大学生良好的心理素质、学习方法,切实提高他们的英语听力理解能力。     

二语习得与学习策略在英语学习中的应用

传统英语教学注重的是语言知识的传授和语言技能的训练,无论教师还是学生都很少将视线投向语言文本以外的范围,因而学生在学英语时出现费时、费力却收效甚微的普遍现象。从二语习得的角度来看,产生这种现象的原因是多方面的。学习者应选用适合自己的学习策略,使英语学习达到事半功倍的效果。