For robots to be more capable interaction partners they will necessarily need to adapt to the needs and requirements of their human companions. One way that the human could aid this adaptation may be by teaching the robot new ways of doing things by physically demonstrating different behaviours and tasks such that the robot learns new skills by imitating the learnt behaviours in appropriate con...

Cosplay is a Japlish combining of Costume and Play. They are aimed an expression of affection for anime and manga’s story and characters. The majority of cosplayers in Japan are women, mostly high school and college students and people in their twenties. Cosplay is a female DIY culture. The DIY spirit embodied by this practice has become a standard in the cosplay community. Cosplay can be seen ...

Abstract This study examined how Japanese instructors utilize scaffolding strategies during classroom teaching. By closely investigating the question-answer interaction that occurred in an elementary-level class through Conversation Analysis (CA), this categorized four types of utilized by instructors: partial answer, asking further questions, gestures, and giving more information. Findings als...

emphasize developing particular ways of communicating (Lemke, 1990; Pea, 1991), both call for learning to occur in a context where students actively engage in designing experiments, making observations, and constructing, communicating and debating explanations. One successful approach for creating such a context is having students conduct investigations in small collaborative work groups (Minst...

Taiwan’s Digital School (DS) was established to suport online K-12 Teacher Professional Development. At the core of the online TPD center is platform-independent, webbased environment designed to meet the needs of a large and diverse community of education professionals. DS provides a powerful set of synchronous and asynchronous communication systems, and support tools. DS offers teaching commu...

Using a “failed” mathematics lesson as a mini-case study, I explore some of the challenges inherent in teaching an inquiry-style mathematics lesson. The ensuing discussion centers around two issues: the preparation and subsequent scaffolding involved in guiding students to desired understandings, along with the tension inherent in “telling” and “not telling” in an inquiry-style pedagogy. I reso...

Abstract Teacher scaffolding is crucial to promote students’ cooperative learning processes, but little known about the cognitive attention underlying teachers’ behavior. This study aims investigate behavior teachers exhibit while intervening in and explore relation between visual perception when applying supportive strategies. Four secondary China were studied during mathematics lessons using ...

This article discusses an investigation carried out with a group learners of English in a Brazilian language school aiming at the individuals' development of critical thinking and their involvem de-naturalization process of gender dualism. The study, which in an educational context witnessing important changes at bot and micro levels, has its theoretical foundation in multicultura identity stud...

Learning in clinical practice can be characterised as situated learning because students learn by performing tasks and solving problems in an environment that reflects the multiple ways in which their knowledge will be put to use in their future professional practice. Collins et al. introduced cognitive apprenticeship as an instructional model for situated learning comprising six teaching metho...

This research seeks to analyse and propose a solution to support classroom-based teaching in the Department of Chocó, Colombia, which is located in a rural area and has been the subject of many social projects for the development of its people. Due to the disparities in different regions of the country, the education sector is forced to look for new working environments that are suitable for ru...