Designing for empowering curriculum implementation

Designing Empowering Vocal and Tangible Interaction

Our voice and body are important parts of our self-experience, and our communication and relational possibilities. They gradually become more important for Interaction Design due to increased development of tangible interaction and mobile communication. In this paper we present and discuss our work with voice and tangible interaction in our ongoing research project RHYME. The goal is to improve...

Designing a Curriculum in Media Literacy for the Elementary School

To help the Ministry of Education with the redesigning of the textbooks, it was deemed that the inclusion of social media could prove beneficial, given that the way students use these media is improved. To find out how this could be implemented, a group of experts in three areas of culture, communication, and education was carefully selected and then interviewed. Data analysis lead to a model c...

Designing a Media Literacy Curriculum Model for Teacher Training Centers

Purpose: The present study was conducted to design a model of media literacy curriculum in teacher training centers. Methodology: This research was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of research method and data type. Experts in the field of media literacy and education, including university professors, were considered as the research community. By conducting a snowball method ...

Designing process-based software curriculum

Computer science education traditionally has stemmed from its mathematical roots and has been related to practice through instruction of programming languages. Good software engineering practice, in contrast, requires expertise at a complex of activities that involve the intellectual skills of planning, designing, evaluating, and revising. Cognitive research has revealed that developing intelle...

Designing an Electronic Commerce Curriculum