How Should Our Gardens Grow?
In this lesson, students will learn about types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students will assume the role of community planning engineers and will create a future plan for their community. (Note: Teachers will need to check out the following book from the local or school library: Durell, Ann, Craighead George, Jean, and Paterson, Katherine. The Big Book For
An Advisory QoS Service for GRID Based Learning Environments
This paper argues that the assumption of end-to-end QoS provision for use in Grid based applications is unsafe. We present an architecture which provides an adaptive QoS service for GRID applications which are prepared to adapt rather than assume the best and then suffer the worst.
This is particularly relevant to Internet based GRIDs. An example application from the field of collaborative learning environments is given, featuring adaptive QoS for Real Time Protocol (RTP) based audio and visual
Futurelab: The potential of open source approaches for education
Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) refers to any software distributed under a licence that allows users to change or share the software source code. Futurelab's interest in this area stems from the belief that FLOSS provides an example of peer-production which is driven by collaborative, social modes of interaction and knowledge exchange. This paper discusses some of the potential ways in which the approaches that characterise FLOSS might be applied in educational contexts.,Research repor
Are well-designed Web sites efficient for learning mathematics at the undergraduate level?
We conducted an experiment in order to examine the effectiveness of an educational Web site, which provides resources to undergraduate students in mathematics. The participants' task was to solve 18 questions about differential equations. Students in the paper condition outperformed those in Web site conditions. There was no difference between the original and an improved Web site version. Moreover, students in all conditions preferred working with the paper resource. Practical and theoretical i
Action-Reaction! Rocket
Students construct a rocket from a balloon propelled along a guide string. They use this model to learn about Newton's three laws of motion, examining the effect of different forces on the motion of the rocket.
Instructional Engineering for Learning Objects Repository Networks
Knowledge management in organizations, the learning objects paradigm and the advent of a new Web generation, the "Semantic Web", are major actual trends that reveal a new potential for a renewed distance learning pedagogy, but at a certain number of conditions. The first and foremost is the use of education modeling languages and instructional engineering methods to help decide how to assemble learning objects in meaningful learning and knowledge management environment. This article proposes a s
Instructional Engineering for Learning Objects Repository Networks
Knowledge management in organizations, the learning objects paradigm and the advent of a new Web generation, the "Semantic Web", are major actual trends that reveal a new potential for a renewed distance learning pedagogy, but at a certain number of conditions. The first and foremost is the use of education modeling languages and instructional engineering methods to help decide how to assemble learning objects in meaningful learning and knowledge management environment. This article proposes a s
State of the art of interaction analysis for Metacognitive Support & Diagnosis
The document concerns Computer Based Interaction Analysis that could support technology based learning activities' participants (e.g. students, teachers) or observers (e.g. teachers, researchers). The underlying considerations and analyses focus on interactions that occur via technology based Learning Environments, designed for stand alone use or collaborative use. Special emphasis is given on Interactions Analysis (IA) outputs that could support learning activities' participants in cognitive an
Utopian Hope and Apocalyptic Religion
Editor's note: The original event recording started slightly after the beginning of the introduction by Professor Lord Meghnad Desai. Where does the utopian impulse in politics originate, and does it have a future? John Gray argues that though they often claimed to be rooted in a scientific analysis of history and society the revolutionary political movements of the past were informed by a utopian vision which derives from religion. Is the age of secular utopianism over, and if so how will relig
Inventory of inquiry learning programs - updated version
Deliverable 18.1.2 presents the updated version of the inventory of inquiry learning programs of the Computer supported inquiry learning SIG. The aim of the inventory is to develop an exhaustive overview of applications, tools, web environments, and resources in the field of inquiry learning. The complete inventory is available on the website of the SIG (http://kaleidoscope.gw.utwente.nl/SIG.IL/). The present Deliverable (18.1.2) provides a description the changes that have been made and the mat
Les Louanges de la Sainte-Croix, Raban Maur
L'objectif de ce module intitulé « Poésie et prouesse » est de s'interroger sur le rôle, le fonctionnement et les limites de tours de force formels, que l'on a du mal à considérer aujourd'hui comme poétiques et, à vrai dire, dont on ne sait pas vraiment quoi faire.
Le corpus qui est ici proposé est large et couvre les trois langues du Moyen Âge - Latin, occitan et ancien français - pour aller jusqu'à la littérature moderne. À ce corpus déjà assez large, il convient
La ressource en sol, support de la biodiversité et de l'activité humaine
Dans cet entretien, Christian Walter, Professeur de Science du Sol à Agrocampus Ouest (Rennes) évoque les caractéristiques du sol et met en avant sa complexité, il analyse ensuite le sol en tant que ressource, puis relie la question du sol à celle de la biodiversité, notamment en examinant le rôle de l'activité humaine.
Plaisir et risques de la pratique des jeux vidéos et en réseau - Kostas Nassikas
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
Plaisir et risques de la pratique des jeux vidéos et en réseau par Kostas Nassikas.
Lycée Lucie Aubrac (84 Bollène)
A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7 The City of Birmingham
The religious, political, economic and social history of the largest city in the Midlands.
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9 Hampstead, Paddington
These two parishes lay in the Holborn division of Ossulstone hundred, and before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington, with a total population of over 200,000.
Guns and Rubles II
Professor Mark Harrison discusses Stalin and secrecy in the second of a three-part series on his book Guns and Rubles
Y a-t-il assez d'eau sur terre pour 10 milliards d'hommes ?
Dans cet entretien, Ghislain De Marsily traite du cycle de l'eau, de la gestion de l'eau et soulève le problème de l'eau : les besoins de l'humanité en eau et le problème de la croissance démographique, les écosystèmes naturels et artificiels, les conséquences du changement climatique, de l'agriculture et de l'industrialisation sur les réservoirs d'eau douce, et enfin les menaces qui pèsent sur les réserves en eau, les inégalités qui découlent de ces différents éléments et
La presse : qui fait l'info ? - Valerie de Senneville
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
La presse : qui fait l'info ? Différence entre information et communication ? par Valerie de Senneville, journaliste
Lycées des Graves (33 Gradignan)
La presse et le pouvoir politique - Valerie Senneville
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
La presse et le pouvoir politique par Valerie Senneville
Lycée Louis de Broglie (78 Marly le Roi)
La théorie de l'évolution du vivant - Nicolas Rabet
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
La théorie de l'évolution par Nicolas Rabet
Lycée Emile Duclos (63 Aurillac)
