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Digital Literacy and Course Design [PDF]

Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on e-Learning, 2019
This paper presents a course planning model for lower and upper secondary schools in the fields of digital literacyand computational thinking. The examples in the paper are based on a Danish regional project entitled “crossingIT,” in whichabout 35 unique courses were developed and conducted by local educators.
Majgaard, Gunver, Lamscheck-Nielsen, Regina   +1 more
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Effects of causal beliefs about gout on public views about gout management: A randomized experimental study

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Despite well‐described biological causes, the public views unhealthy lifestyle choices as the primary cause of gout. This study investigated how causal beliefs about gout influence the public's views about its management. Methods In a randomized study, 201 members of the public viewed one of two 2‐minute videos about gout.
Rachel Murdoch, Borislav Mihov, Anne Horne, Keith J. Petrie, Gregory D. Gamble, Lachlan Fleck, Nicola Dalbeth   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Longitudinal Follow-up Study of the Doodle Den After-school Programme Childhood Development Initiative [PDF]

, 2014
More than a quarter of children in Ireland are living in, or are at risk of, poverty. Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to leave school early and without having attained the fundamental literacy skills.
Andy Biggart
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3D virtual worlds as environments for literacy learning [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Although much has been written about the ways in which new technology might transform educational practice, particularly in the area of literacy learning, there is relatively little empirical work that explores the possibilities and problems -
Bolter J. D., boyd d., Carr D., Cope B., Davies J., DCFS, Dede C., DfEE, DfES, Foucault M., Gauntlett D., Gee J. P., Guy Merchant, Ito M., Lankshear C., Livingstone S., Markham A., Marsh J., Patton M. Q., Pratt M. L., Qian Y., Stake R. E., Steinkuehler C., TDA   +23 more
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Lexicons, Literacies and Design Futures

Temes de Disseny, 2020
As the world in which we live becomes more complex and contested, economically and politically but also in terms of rapid and long-lasting environmental change, design education faces new demands and challenges. We frame and situate these in terms of what we call “design futures literacies.” At stake in such a framing is a rethinking of design’s ...
Andrew Morrison, Nina Bjørnstad, Einar Sneve Martinussen, Bjørn Johansen, Bastien Kerspern, Palak Dudani   +5 more
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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the learning transfer of genre features and conceptual knowledge from an academic literacy course to business studies: Exploring the potential of dynamic assessment [PDF]

, 2017
Academic literacy courses aim to enable higher education students to participate in their chosen academic fields as fully as possible. However, the extent to which these students transfer the academic skills taught in these courses to their chosen ...
Shrestha, Prithvi N.
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Designing for Critical Algorithmic Literacies

, 2023
As pervasive data collection and powerful algorithms increasingly shape children's experience of the world and each other, their ability to interrogate computational algorithms has become crucially important. A growing body of work has attempted to articulate a set of "literacies" to describe the intellectual tools that children can use to understand ...
Dasgupta, Sayamindu, Hill, Benjamin Mako
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole, Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Kamala Kaghoma Christian, Zoumana Bamba, Tahirou Abdoulaye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source