Necesitatea implementării unui sistem de moralitate inteligențelor artificiale

Author(s): Cristian Radu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2020

In this article, I argue that there is a necessity of implementing a moral system for artificial intelligence platforms. I will bring arguments for this requirement by analyzing examples of artificial intelligence already in use in the field of armed warfare, healthcare and day to day life. I will also talk about examples of systems that are advanced enough and capable of being implemented with a moral or ethical system. In the end, I will talk about real-life a.i. accidents that could have been prevented by having in use such a system.

Развитие на когнитивни умения чрез компютърни образователни игри

Author(s): Teodorka Terzieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2021

This article presents the results of a study on the possibilities of computer educational games for the development of various cognitive skills for learners. The advantages they offer in the learning process are highlighted. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship between game-based learning and mental development of learners. Examples of game-based learning from leading educational institutions at different stages of the educational process are given. A prototype of an educational game with several interactive puzzles is presented. They are designed to teach students in mathematics and philology (learning a foreign language). The developed prototypes can be used to acquire new knowledge or to assess the acquisition of knowledge and skills in various subject areas.

Хаос(ът) (Време е за… педагогика)

Author(s): Jordan Kolev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2021

The author reflects on the meaning of human life and the possibilities of education regarding the professionalization of a sense of social living. It is assumed that the Soul can be an “instrument” of Life itself, which would make sense only when experimenting with oneself in /with/ through different movements and forms of matter. Accordingly, the rational human being seeks the “feeling” of his soul and, knowing himself in the conditions of the earthly world, self-modernizes in order to offer it the perfect form of matter for him. Probably it is the harmony of their “coexistence” in the chaos of their inner world that is the real goal of pedagogy.

Подготовка за XXV младежка балканиада по математика 2021

Author(s): Ivaylo Kortezov,Emil Karlov,Miroslav Marinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

The paper contains the team selection tests for the team of Bulgaria at the Junior Balkan Math Olympiad 2021 as well as an overview of the team results. The included materials can be useful for the math contest preparation classes in Junior high school.

Excel’s Calculation of Basic Assets Amortisation Values

Author(s): Vehbi Ramaj,Sead Rešić,Anes Hadžiomerović,Samira Aganović / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2021

For Excel’s calculation of basic (fixed) assets amortisation values, the investigated economic and mathematical foundation with required values and their relations were used. The investigated and introduced theory is adapted to Excel calculations of fixed assets amortisation based on today’s needs. All values for Excel’s calculations are sorted into input and output values, and input to main and nested calculations. Two methods for calculating fixed assets amortisation were introduced using Excel. The first method is based on a linear decreasing function,G(t) = G0 (1-pt), which presents the simple interest calculation of the reduced equities for equal periodic amortisation values. The second method is based on the exponential degrading function, G(t) = G0qt, which presents a complex interest calculation of the reduced equities for periodic amortisation amounts in a descending sequence. The continuity of the introduced functions results from the continuity of: the life of the fixed asset, periodic amortisation, accumulated amortisation and non-amortized amount (residual value) of the fixed asset. It is particularly important to introduce dates with the exact time, for the beginning and the end of each amortisation period of the fixed asset. The theory for Excel’s calculation of the fixed asset output values for an arbitrary (planned or unplanned) term has also been explored and introduced. Such calculations relate mainly to terms of alienation, permanent damage, permanent loss of the process function of a fixed asset and periodic accounting reporting.

Конкурсни задачи на броя

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Problems and Solutions of this Issue

Решения на задачите от брой 4, 2021

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Solutions of problems from issue 4, 2021

Book review

Author(s): Andreea Nicoleta Soare / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Book review

Author(s): Vasia Tsami,Vasiliki Saloustrou / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Институционален подход за анализ на историята на законодателството на земеделските земи в България в периода 1989 – 2020 г.

Author(s): Diana Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

In this paper, the institutional approach for analysis of the history of agricultural land legislation will trace legislation changes concerning agricultural lands during the period from 1989 to the beginning of 2021. The following article aims to analyse whether evolutionary update and legislative changes achieve establishment of order and justice in reference to distribution of land resources to society - in the face of the state, in its role as an institution and whether the same it has accomplished the desired result.

Система за стимулиране и усъвършенстване уменията на учениците за творческо мислене

Author(s): Darinka Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

The analysis of the current state of the Bulgarian school education outlines the main problem – orientation towards memorizing and reproduction instead of provoking thinking, independence and developing skills.Can thinking be taught? How far can this possibility reach? The real practice of nowadays school differs more and more from that kind of education led by the illusion that thinking appears itself in the process of education. Creativity is a matter of value. A new idea is really creative when it is useful or adds some real value for someone. According to prof. Edward de Bono creative thinking is most of all a skill but not a matter of a personal talent or a sudden dawn of inspiration.Cognitive Research Trust program (CoRT) gives the opportunity to teach thinking in the extra-curricular activities at school. Mental methods and tools of thinking form an effective system for stimulating and developing students’ creative thinking skills.

Гимназистите – предизвикателство към учителя по български език

Author(s): Diana Dimitrova-Yordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Mass media and social networking are fast-developing forms of communication in our world and in education in particular. Their language is attractive and comprehensible for everyone. Through them some phenomena which deviate from the literary norm  can be observed in speech. Over time speakers stop looking at them as a deviation in their language behaviour. Such mistakes are usually considered as manifestation of low education or as insufficient knowledge of the literary norm. The article shows an experiment where the found deviations are turning into an interesting "game" at school which helps creating attitudes and gaining experience.

CORRELATION AND IMPLICATIONS RELATING TO PROVISIONS AND IDENTIFICATION OF RISKS WHICH DETERMINE THEIR CONSTITUTION

Author(s): NICORICI Rares Cosmin / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

In order to optimize costs and ensure the sustainability of businesses less affected by the COVID pandemic crisis 19, the restructuring of activities in accordance with the provisions of IAS 37 - Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets may be a viable solution. In this context, this article aims to provide the necessary clarifications in order to provide a basis for assessing the appropriate recognition criteria applied to provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets, to ensure full information support in the explanatory notes to the financial statements, necessary for users. accounting information in substantiating decisions. The results of the present study emphasize that, now more than ever, in a pandemic context, professional judgment is crucial in determining when the conditions for recognizing a provision in the financial statements are met and in accounting for amounts that can be recognized as part of this. provision, in accordance with IAS 37. We believe that this study can be particularly useful, in this pandemic context, to professional accountants engaged in financial reporting work, but also to regulatory bodies that can provide solutions to revise this standard.

NTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES

Author(s): IRIMIA Andreea / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

ntercultural education is one of the new focuses of the 21stcentury. We try to understand what intercultural education is and how it can be integrated into foreign language classes. We are interested in the ways in which teaching methods can be adapted to accomplish intercultural education and what teaching methods can be used to include both foreign language teaching and intercultural education.

The Classical Message in a Bottle - Should "Classical Wisdom" Determine Our Identity and Future?

Author(s): Ljuben Tevdovski / Language(s): English Issue: 14(43)/2021

“No one finds it easy to live uncomplainingly and fearlessly with the thesis that human reality is constantly being made and unmade, and that anything like a stable essence is constantly under threat.” These were the words used by Edward Said in the late 1970’s in the context of introduction of the new paradigms for the identity of the people, communities and societies in the East and the West, as well as the world as a whole. He was ahead of a wider decades long process of re-evaluating and reimagining of our identities and values, leading to exposure of serious and numerous misconceptions and illusions in the perceptions and analyses of the self and the other. The growing tendencies of scientific relativism and constant re-evaluation of the key paradigms, especially in social sciences and humanities, of the last decades, were further emphasized by the massive waves of globalisation, that have shaken societal traditions, norms, and principals all over the world. One of the key aspects of this transformative process in the West was the confrontation with the societal and scientific biases created by the Eurocentric views of the world and human history, connected to the dominant classicistic traditions in both society and academia. This paper provides a novel multidisciplinary approach in thinking about our classical traditions and examines if the classical principals, ideals, and “wisdom” are still relevant in confronting contemporary challenges of the world and reimagining our own identity and our vision for the future.

ХРОНИКА НА ЕДНА (НЕ)ПРЕДИЗВЕСТЕНА И „СИНЯ“ СМЪРТ: ХОЛЕРНИТЕ ЕПИДЕМИИ В БЪЛГАРИЯ И НА БАЛКАНИТЕ (20-те ГОДИНИ НА XIX–20-те ГОДИНИ НА XX ВЕК)

Author(s): Orlin Sabev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The paper provides a chronological timeline of the cholera epidemics in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 1820s through the 1920s. In the course of a century these territories were eight times heavily struck by the so-called “blue death” – the cholera. This acute infectious disease was usually imported through the dislocation of military units, as well as maritime and rail transport. It penetrated first the seaports and then the inland settlements. Both the official statistics and the unofficial judgements reveal relatively great fatality numbers which dropped drastically only in the early twentieth century due to mass vaccination among the military and the civil population. The author reminds Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s worldwide famous novels Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love in the Time of Cholera, and concludes that the mankind should learn better the lessons of history in order to be able to save its honour in the face of new pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic including.

Development of Socially Desirable Characteristics and Values of Students in Literature Teaching

Author(s): Nenad Stojković,Emina Kopas-Vukašinović / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2021

This paper emphasizes the effects of teaching literature in the younger grades of primary school in the context of the development of socially desirable behavior of students. The aim of this research was to determine how much literature content for children, which is the part of the curriculum for pupils attending classes from the first to the fourth grade of the elementary school, with the application of adequate teaching methods and affirmation of socially desirable values, contribute to the development and nurturing of socially desirable behaviour of students. The research can be marked as ex post facto, with the application of a descriptive method and a survey procedure. The findings of the research show that the texts of children's literature, with adequate methodical procedure during their interpretation, contribute to the development of socially desirable characteristics and values of students.

Factors Impacting the Effective Citizenship Values of Secondary School Students within the Scope of Social Studies Education

Author(s): Elif Alkar,Emin Atasoy / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2021

In this study, it was aimed to identify the factors impacting the effective citizenship values of secondary school students within the scope of social studies education. The research data were collected from 5 different secondary schools located in the province of Kocaeli in Turkey in the fall semester of 2020-2021 academic year. Participants of the study were a total of 905 students, 481 of whom were females and 424 of them were males. In this study carried out in the scanning design as a descriptive study, the effect of students’ grade level, gender, education level of their parents, monthly income of the family, frequency of following the news and being a member of a non-governmental organization on the effective citizenship values were tried to be identified. The study is the first international research to determine the effective citizenship value levels of Secondary School students within the scope of social studies education.

Centralisation and Decentralisation in Higher Education: a Comparative Study of Hungary and Germany

Author(s): Carla Liege Rodrigues Pimenta,Zoltán Rónay,András Németh / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2021

The main focus of this article is on comparing the centralisation and decentralisation in higher education in Hungary and Germany. This study explores trends in implementing quality assurance measures in higher education. It employs the methodology of document analysis to identify differences between the two nations in the level of autonomy they accord to higher education institutions in regulating quality assurance standards. Data collected from these documents demonstrate that the two countries have divergent approaches to higher education governance. In the Hungarian higher education system, management is centralised and monitored by the national government. This state control indicates limited autonomy amongst higher education institutions to organise academic programs. In contrast, the German legal documents examined in this study indicate a belief in the need to guarantee the quality of learning, teaching, research, academic freedom, gender equality, and institutional autonomy. The data collected reveal the close relationship between governance and quality assurance in discourses regarding the accountability, transparency, and freedom of stakeholders.

Innovative Teachers, Who Are You? Innovative Teacher Analysis in the Light of the Model of the ‘Big Five’ Personality Traits

Author(s): Rina Cohen / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2021

In the 21st century, reality, characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, together termed VUCA, change constantly occurs throughout social, technological, economic, environmental, educational, and political (STEEEP model) aspects of society. Therefore, education systems need to adopt innovative approaches to adapt to the frequently changing world. In this study, educational and pedagogical innovation is regarded as including whatever constitutes a change in all areas to which education relates. As teachers are one of the most crucial factors in influencing students’ academic success, and as they must rapidly adapt and constantly innovate to adequately prepare their students for ever-changing circumstances, it is essential to identify traits of innovative teachers. The main goal of this study is to characterize the personality traits of innovative teachers according to the Big Five Personality Traits model, referred to as the NEO-AC model, using qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings show that innovative teachers perceive themselves as first and foremost open to experiences. They are curious people with highly developed imaginations and a wide range of interests. Innovative teachers also may be unconventional, capable of putting together plans and projects from several different disciplines