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The authors concentrate on the variety and scope of roles filled by learners, the potential development of associated transferable skills, and the way videoconferencing facilitates this process. Key learner roles and their outcomes are described. Detailed advice is given as to how students can maximise their skills and how technology can best support them. A range of task-based collaborative activities are presented, and the underlying theory and practice are both described in order to balance their rationales.
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This chapter gives voice to the students using videoconferencing, in some cases for the first time. By doing so, a clear picture emerges of the challenges, frustrations, but ultimately beneficial experiences felt by students. The views and feelings expressed act as useful compass points for teachers setting up such courses. These can be helpful in avoiding future pitfalls.
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The author underlines the importance of having a clear rationale for using videoconferencing. A detailed case study illustrates the pitfalls and challenges of technology and looks at key examples of mismatching. These include mismatches between the different expectations of students and teachers, between theory and practice, between desired aims and actual outcomes, and between the ideal applications and actual limitations of the technology on offer. The article discusses a range of problems and issues but also points to solutions and workarounds. It emphasises the importance of considering not only how technology is used and which type is chosen but also why technology is used at all.
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The author presents a personal and professional overview of key technology issues in videoconferencing. The tone is both authoritative and informative, and the range of information covers most aspects of use. It provides a good introduction to videoconferencing for the novice, whilst existing users will benefit from the detailed options outlined in the technical sections. The article will help teachers not only to expand their knowledge of this developing field but also to organise their videoconferencing courses.
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Digital literacy is an essential skill that teachers need to effectively use technology in their classrooms. The relationship between middle school mathematics teachers' digital literacy and their levels of technology use in the classroom is important for facilitating the effective use of technology in educational processes. However, there is a lack of sufficient empirical studies examining the meaningful relationship between these two skills. This study aims to investigate the relationship between middle school mathematics teachers' digital literacy and their levels of technology use in the classroom. The research was conducted using a correlational survey model, and 132 middle school teachers participated voluntarily, selected through convenient sampling method. Data were collected using a personal information form, a digital literacy scale, and a scale for determining the level of technology use in mathematics classes. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis. The research findings indicate that middle school mathematics teachers have a high level of digital literacy and a moderate level of technology use in mathematics classes. Furthermore, a significant positive correlation at a moderate level was found between these two skills. The study also revealed that the sub-dimensions of digital literacy, namely attitude, technical, cognitive, and social variables, together significantly predicted the levels of technology use in middle school mathematics teachers' classes, explaining 36% of the variance in technology use. According to the importance order, it was determined that the social, attitude, and cognitive sub-dimensions were significant predictors of technology use in mathematics teachers' classes, while the technical sub-dimension was not a significant predictor.
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Artificial intelligence is one of the hot themes of the current public discussion with accounts associating it with transformations in especially manufacturing sectors which is usually expected to lead to massive unemployment. The public is keen on speculating about which jobs will be made redundant by the rise of AI and ultimately disappear. In addition to factories, the health sector is one of the sites of contestations as many medical tasks are getting automated. Some other scholars do not agree with this panic atmosphere. They claim that like any other industrial transformation, the rise of AI will also create new jobs. Although social implications of the rise of AI are under the spot, it is hard to come up with a single view among various views shared by scholars of various disciplines and strands of research. This article summarizes and elaborates on various positions on the topic, with a sociologically critical perspective, keeping an eye on AI’s highly likely role in exacerbating the already biting social inequalities and injustice. The sociology of artificial intelligence is delineated along with the ethical issues raised by the expansion of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, keeping the possibility of a humane artificial intelligence in mind.
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Art is the event of willingly and consciously transferring an emotion that manifests in humans. Considering that with art raises and exalts the human soul; art is related to human inspiration and creativity. As a result of the changing social structures with the modernization process, mass culture influenced art. In this study, it is thought that art, which has a unique structure, does not fit into a utilitarian pattern in its essence, however, it transforms into a kind of good with the spread of mass culture, and with that, the creativity of art in a utilitarian identity has deeply affected. Artificial intelligence, which enters all areas of life and affects human life, has begun to manifest itself in many areas requiring emotion, including the art field. The art is associated with emotion, however, the commodification of the concepts of inspiration and creativity together with modernization on the basis of popular culture has deepened and has changed dimensions with the presence of artificial intelligence in the field of art. In art, which is the expression of human emotion, it is thought that artificial intelligence is a kind of replication, not inspiration, to attempt to perform art through software installed to itself away from emotion and creativity. The study sought to answer the question of whether art can be performed emotionally with the development of technology based on the literature reviews. As a result, it is thought that high art, which has lost much of its essence with mass culture, will negatively affect art, artistic production, and the artist in the near future with the existence of artificial intelligence enabling and attempting to perform art. Without emotion, the meaning of art will lose, rather than change.
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In today`s digital world, threats to national security are growing in cyberspace, the virtual environment where computer systems and networks operate, and data and information are exchanged and stored. These threats are manifested through various cyber-attacks aimed at disrupting the operations of state institutions and security systems, affecting the economic interests of private companies and the normal functioning of civil society. Information security is crucial in today`s digital realm by protecting data, systems, and resources from various threats and risks.
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V poslední kapitole se díváme na budoucnost webových knih a digitálního čtení perspektivou designové spekulace. Prostřednictvím identifikace trendů se snažíme formulovat možné budoucnosti a přemýšlet o (ne)materialitě knihy či čtení v post-antropické budoucnosti. Kapitola je zkráceným a upraveným výňatkem z rozpracovaného disertačního výzkumu, který probíhá v rámci doktorského studia v Ateliéru grafického designu na Fakultě multimediálních komunikací Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně.
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