Computational thinking involves many different abilities, including being able to represent real and imaginary worlds in highly constrained computer languages. These typically support very selective kinds of perspectives, abstractions and articulation compared to the unlimited possibilities provided by natural languages. This paper reports findings from a qualitative empirical study with novice...

When guiding students to create graphic compositions, the teacher used items found in daily life as the theme for practicing their creativity. This assimilates creative theory into actual production and achieves the integration of theory and practice. For the creation of visual arts on paper bags presented in this article, the students were encouraged to draw patterns according to their favorit...

The fine and applied visual arts and perceptual psychology use conflicting accounts of picture perception. In the arts, the human ability to perceive pictured objects is characterized as learned, or conventionalized, like a ”visual language” (Gombrich, 1960; Goodman, 1976; Kulvicki, 2010). In perceptual psychology, picture perception is characterized as an unlearned, biologically grounded, abil...

This review explores the relationship between engagement with the creative arts and health outcomes, specifically the health effects of music engagement, visual arts therapy, movement-based creative expression, and expressive writing. Although there is evidence that art-based interventions are effective in reducing adverse physiological and psychological outcomes, the extent to which these inte...

As a visual artist undertaking doctoral studies in education, the author required a research method that integrated her studio practice into her research process, giving equal weight to the visual and the linguistic. Her process of finding such a method is outlined in this article, which touches on arts-based research and practice-led research, and her ultimate approach of choice, collage. Coll...

Mean-field approximations (MFAs) are frequently used in physics. When a process (such as an epidemic or a synchronization) on a network is approximated by MFA, a major hurdle is the determination of those graphs for which MFA is reasonably accurate. Here, we present an accuracy criterion for Markovian susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) epidemics on any network, based on the spectrum of the ...

We introduce the notion of open learner models as artifacts and resources, situated in school level to illustrate a context of multiple user types. We suggest a new direction for research, focussing on open learner models as a facilitator of communication from a semiotic engineering perspective.

The translation of web content into Libras (Lingua Brasileira de Sinais – Brazilian Sign Language), although adequate, cannot always be implemented, due to its high cost. Thus, the present study aims to identify and propose solutions for the potential communication breakdowns in the interaction of bilingual deaf users in corporate systems on the web. The analysis of the interaction took place a...