Stand-alone computers supporting learning dialogues in primary classrooms

LOCH: supporting mobile language learning outside classrooms

This paper describes a Computer-Supported Mobile Learning (CSML) environment for language learning, called Language-learning Outside the Classroom with Handhelds (LOCH). In the environment, the teacher assigns field activities to the students, who go around the town to fulfil them and share their individual knowledge and experiences. The main aim of this project, called One-Day Trip with PDA, w...

Stand-Alone Hardware-Based Learning System

The probabilistic Random Access Memory (pRAM) is a biologically-inspired model of a neuron. The pRAM behaviour is described in this paper in relation to binary and real-valued input vectors. The pRAM is hardware-realisable, as is its reinforcement training algorithm. The pRAM model may be applied to a wide range of artificial neural network applications, many of which are classification tasks. ...

Software for Supporting Virtual Classrooms

Supporting Teachers in Orchestrating CSCL Classrooms

A pedagogically effective and sustainable use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in education is far from being a reality, in spite of the huge advances in ICT, the investments and political plans, and especially all promising research results in the field (Cuban 2001). One of the reasons for such a delay can be found in the lack of understanding on how teachers orchestrate th...

Why science cannot stand alone.

In an era in which certain arenas of scientific research have become increasingly controversial, this article critically evaluates what it means to "believe in science." Many scientists today seem to claim a sovereign right to no political interference under the rubric of freedom. This article questions such a notion, and explores the dominance of science and the silencing of moral voices by un...