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Commenting on Written Arguments as a Part of Argumentation Skills — comparison between students engaged in traditional vs on‐line study
1992
ABSTRACT The use of computer‐mediated communication (CMC) has increased in the area of education. This article reports a study whose aim was to improve the argumentation and scientific thinking skills of university students through argumentative on‐line studying. The research problems dealt on the one hand with learning outcomes in terms of subject content and on the other hand with argumentation skills. The results were compared between on‐line students and students who studied in a traditional way. The results indicated that the traditional group got better learning outcomes than the on‐line students who, by contrast, succeeded better in the tasks of argumentation skills. The findings sug…
Human Research in Technology Design
2021
Modern technology design processes in intelligent societies are different from the classic electromechanical technology design processes. Future technology design must be based as much on human research as on natural scientific thinking. Today one can find technologies such as social media applications which are created with minimal technical effort. Thus, understanding the human dimension of technologies is becoming much more important today than in the time of electromechanical technologies. The change in focus motivates to pay attention to the foundational differences between natural science and human research in technology design. The differences between the two traditions have been dis…
Come un tenero virgulto: termini e ideologie della crescita nel pensiero greco pre-aristotelico
2020
Dopo un inquadramento terminologico atto a presentare le più comuni radici che esprimono in greco antico i concetti di crescita e di sviluppo del vivente, l’attenzione è rivolta alle modalità con cui in testi di varia natura e datazione (da Omero sino al Corpus ippocratico) si descrive la crescita dell’essere umano a partire dal costante confronto con il mondo vegetale, in modo che dal configurarsi delle teorie possano risaltare le più o meno implicite mentalità. Attraverso il massiccio ricorso al ragionamento analogico, le fonti considerate permettono di farsi un’idea non solo del processo di crescita in sé, ma anche del ruolo assegnato nella cultura e nel pensiero della Grecia antica alla…
Apperception, content-based psychology and design
2003
A core area of scientific thinking is explaining. This means answering to the “why-questions and how questions” (Hempel 1965). Why does Sam have a fewer? Why did an organization fail abroad? Why a structure is able to support the weight of snow? How more effective valves for an engine can be designed? How to make computer games more attractive for female users? These are typical examples of design problems, all of which should be based on scientific explanation, i.e., what should be answered based on the laws of nature or as is becoming increasingly more evident, based on the laws of the human mind.
SCIENTIFIC THINKING: THE BACKBONE OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
2014
Science and Technology Education (STE) along with Artistic and Pragmatic Education today is continuously and fast developing branch of education to satisfy actual needs of modern life. It follows the development of scientific research of real life phenomena and implementation of corresponding results in practice. In other words, changes within our life are closely connected with corresponding changes in our education, because educational activities of any person as well as society in total mean specially organized gaining of life experience (knowledge, values, skills) for life (cognition, consideration, behaviour).
St. John Paul II’s Ideas of Dialogue between the Church and Science
2016
Wśród różnych obszarów tematycznych dialogu ze światem ważne miejsce w papieskim nauczaniu zajmuje dialog Kościoła z nauką. Dialog ten zasadniczo jest prowadzony, choć z różną intensywnością, od początku istnienia Kościoła, gdyż jest związany implicite z istotną dla myśli chrześcijańskiej relacją między rozumem a wiarą. Za pontyfikatu św. Jana Pawła II (1978-2005) problematyka dialogu Kościoła z nauką stała się ważnym elementem papieskiej troski i nauczania. O dużym zaangażowaniu papieża w dialog Kościoła z nauką świadczy wielość jego wypowiedzi, dotyczących różnych aspektów tegoż dialogu, wygłaszanych podczas różnej rangi spotkań z przedstawicielami nauki. Artykuł ma na celu syntetyczną pr…
New, old and evergreen frontiers in freshwater phytoplankton ecology: the legacy of Colin S. Reynolds
2020
This paper offers a brief overview of the contributions provided by widely recognised phytoplankton ecologists to honour the memory of an undisputed leader in the field of aquatic sciences: Colin S. Reynolds. Colin passed away quite unexpectedly in December 2018 causing a wave of sorrow that rapidly circulated among friends and colleagues all over the world. The 14 review papers collected in this Special Issue form a tribute to Colin’s scientific thinking, which survives the man and represents a legacy to all the scientists in the field, especially to young generations. Although authors and editors carefully selected 14 different topics, a certain degree of overlap exists among the collecte…