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Teacher smiles as an interactional and pedagogical resource in the classroom

2020

In classroom settings, laughter and smiles are resources for action that are available to both teachers and students. Recent interactional studies have documented how students use these resources to deal with trouble of various kind, but less is known about the sequential and activity contexts of teachers’ laughter-relevant practices, as well as their pedagogical functions. We use multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to investigate the interactional unfolding and pedagogical orientations of teacher smiles during instructional IRE (initiation-response-evaluation) sequences in a corpus of 37 bilingual lessons collected in schools in Finland and Spain. In analysing the focal smiles, we pay at…

The nature of EFL conversation in classroom and net-based learning environment

2007

Playful Hands-on Crafting for Personal Growth and Communal Well-being

2017

Crafts education in Finland has recently been exposed to considerable challenges, on both the theoretical and practical levels. The emphasis is shifting to personal expression and communal arts and crafts practices are being adapted to solidify social and cultural participation. Learning research shows us how inner motivation and multilevel objectives in comfortable learning environments induce stable and generalizable learning results. In addition, collaborative ways of working make data processing more open and turn learning into a shared effort. On the other hand, playful learning and dramatic methods offer productive ways of examining life situations in an active and empathetic way. Whe…

Using Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy to Foster Critically Reflective Learning About Management and Leadership

2019

This chapter focuses on an Arts-Based Intervention (ABI) into an Introductory course of Management and Leadership offered to students considering key concepts and frames of thinking in the field for the first time. First, we introduce Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy and conceptually frame our ABI in relation to the mode of learning that it allows for together with the drive for equality that it is concerned with. We then introduce the context of the ABI, describe the course and its background and the course facilitators together with information about the participants. Emphasis is placed on the way the course was framed to bring a sense of present-day management reality through our use of art-based …

The Țigani Community Adaptability to Changes in Rural Romania and the COVID-19 Impact

2021

Romanian rural villages are struggling to survive present times when youngsters leave for a better life in the city while elders work the land like a hundred years ago. Our paper integrates human environments research with public health preparedness, presenting the Țigani (Gypsy/Roma) ethnic group from rural Romania as an example to the world. The future security of mankind will require a new understanding of the human place in its environment. That will lead to a new society, not the most powerful or intelligent, but the one that is more adaptable to changes, with sensitive and interconnected community members. Therefore, the Țigani ethnic group that fought for its rights and flourished de…

Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

2020

Many of us “see red,” “feel blue,” or “turn green with envy.” Are such color-emotion associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations learned through our languages and traditions? To answer these questions, we tested emotional associations of colors in 4,598 participants from 30 nations speaking 22 native languages. Participants associated 20 emotion concepts with 12 color terms. Pattern-similarity analyses revealed universal color-emotion associations (average similarity coefficient r = .88). However, local differences were also apparent. A machine-learning algorithm revealed that nation predicted color-emotion associations above and beyond tho…

How can algorithms help in segmenting users and customers? : A systematic review and research agenda for algorithmic customer segmentation

2023

What algorithm to choose for customer segmentation? Should you use one algorithm or many? How many customer segments should you create? How to evaluate the results? In this research, we carry out a systematic literature review to address such central questions in customer segmentation research and practice. The results from extracting information from 172 relevant articles show that algorithmic customer segmentation is the predominant approach for customer segmentation. We found researchers employing 46 different algorithms and 14 different evaluation metrics. For the algorithms, K-means clustering is the most employed. For the metrics, separation-focused metrics are slightly more prevalent…

Towards digital cognitive clones for the decision-makers: adversarial training experiments

2021

Abstract There can be many reasons for anyone to make a digital copy (clone) of own decision-making behavior. This enables virtual presence of a professional decision-maker simultaneously in many places and processes of Industry 4.0. Such clone can be used as one’s responsible representative when the human is not available. Pi-Mind (“Patented Intelligence”) is a technology, which enables “cloning” cognitive skills of humans using adversarial machine learning. In this paper, we present a cyber-physical environment as an adversarial learning ecosystem for cloning image classification skills. The physical component of the environment is provided by the logistic laboratory with camera-surveilla…

Distance Learning Improvement Possibilities in Sciences for 8th to 12th Grades

2021

COVID-19 pandēmijas ietekmē, cilvēku ikdiena vairs nav iedomājama bez attālinātā darba un attālinātajām mācībām. Svarīgi, lai attālinātās mācības neradītu negatīvu ietekmi uz izglītības kvalitāti, īpaši specifiskos mācību priekšmetos, kad to veiksmīgai apgūšanai ir nepieciešami arī praktiskie darbi un laboratorijas darbi. Līdz ar to bija svarīgi izpētīt attālināto mācību specifiku un pilnveidošanas iespējas dabaszinību mācību priekšmetos, lai varētu izstrādāt rekomendācijas dažādām sociālajām grupām – pedagogiem, skolniekiem un viņu vecākiem, lai nodrošinātu pilnvērtīgu dabaszinātņu mācību priekšmetu apguvi. Autore pētījumā izmantoja gadījuma pētījuma dizainu, kurā atklāja, ka Latvijā šobrī…

On Attacking Future 5G Networks with Adversarial Examples : Survey

2022

The introduction of 5G technology along with the exponential growth in connected devices is expected to cause a challenge for the efficient and reliable network resource allocation. Network providers are now required to dynamically create and deploy multiple services which function under various requirements in different vertical sectors while operating on top of the same physical infrastructure. The recent progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning is theorized to be a potential answer to the arising resource allocation challenges. It is therefore expected that future generation mobile networks will heavily depend on its artificial intelligence components which may result in …