A teaching/learning support tool for introductory programming courses

In This work we present a Web-based tool developed with the aim of reinforcing teaching and learning of introductory programming courses. This tool provides support for teaching and learning. From the teacher's perspective the system introduces important gains with respect to the classical teaching methodology. It reinforces lecture and laboratory sessions, makes it possible to give personalized attention to the student, assesses the degree of participation of the students and most importantly, performs a continuous assessment of the student's progress. From the student's perspective it provides a learning framework, consisting in a help environment and a correction environment, which facilitates their personal work. With this tool students are more motivated to do programming

The Pedagogical Congresses of Portuguese Secondary Teaching : the participation of female teachers (1927-1928)

This paper was written within the context of the research project “The development of teacher’ associative organizations and unionism (1889-1990)” funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology). Five important congresses about secondary education were organized in Portugal between 1927 and 1931. These congresses served to claim the rights of teachers and the consolidation of the class, as well as to promote the discussion of scientific and pedagogical problems. In these congresses, the presence of female teachers was residual. However, the few teachers who participated had a significant contribution to the definition of secondary education during the following decades. Among other issues, it contributed to the discussion of female education and to analyze the importance of Biology and Physical Education in high schools. This paper presents the analysis of the minutes of the 1927s and 1928s Congresses. This analysis allowed the assessment of the important role played by a group of teachers to define, at the end of the first third of the 20th century, the future guidelines of Portuguese secondary education. It also reported that these teachers were pioneers who opened the way for the increasing number of teachers in secondary education during the 20th century.

Appeal to the Universities for the development of Teaching and Research in the areas of Urban Planning in the CPLP countries

Work document prepared at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias in its role as Consulting Observer attributed by the Council of Ministers of the CPLP gathered in Bissau for the 11th General Meeting on 16. and 17. July, 2006.

Technology enhanced learning and augmented reality : an application on multimedia interactive books

Multimedia Interactive Book (miBook) reflects the development of a new concept of virtual interpretation of traditional text books and audio-visual content. By encompassing new technological approaches, using augmented reality technology, allows the final user to experience a variety of sensorial stimuli while enjoying and interacting with the content; therefore enhancing the learning process. miBook stands for a global educational intention to enable people not only to access but also to appropriate intellectually valuable contents coming from different linguistic and cultural contexts.

The potential of digital interactive television for the provision of healthcare and wellness services

The potential of digital interactive television (iDTV) to promote original services, formats and contents that can be relevant to support personal health care and wellness of individuals, namely elderly people, has not been yet fully explored in the past. Therefore, in a context of rapid change of the technological resources, in which the distribution and presentation of content comes associated with new platforms (such as digital terrestrial TV and IPTV), it is important to perceive the configurations that are being developed for interactive digital TV (iDTV) that may result in relevant outcomes within the field of healthcare and wellness, with the aim of offering complementarity to the existing services and contents made available today via the traditional means and media. This article describes and discusses the preliminary results of the first part of the research project iDTV-HEALTH: Inclusive services to promote health and wellness via digital interactive television. These first results suggest that iDTV solutions may represent a real contribution to delivery healthcare and wellness to the target population, namely as a supplement to health services provision.

O ensino-aprendizagem da física e da química: manuais escolares versus recursos digitais

Nesta dissertação investigamos o uso do manual escolar na sala de aula, em consonância com as mudanças das práticas pedagógicas resultantes da existência de novos recursos digitais agregados ao manual escolar, tais como o e-manual, os CD-ROM e DVDs e, as plataformas educacionais na Internet, em particular, a Escola Virtual, da Porto Editora. O leitmotiv da realização desta investigação é avaliar a utilização destes recursos, quer nas práticas pedagógicas inovadoras por parte dos docentes, quer na contribuição para melhorar a aprendizagem dos alunos. No sentido de melhor compreender e analisar o impacto da integração dos recursos digitais no ensino-aprendizagem, escolhemos os recursos da Porto Editora, visto tratar-se de um estudo de caso centrado numa escola que adotou estes recursos. A partir de um enquadramento metodológico que procura ultrapassar as dicotomias entre as abordagens quantitativas e as abordagens qualitativas, centramos o nosso estudo numa unidade didática, Astronomia, lecionada no 7º ano de escolaridade, na disciplina de Ciências Físico-Químicas. Com base num modelo heurístico, os dados recolhidos através de questionários a professores e alunos numa escola onde a investigadora estagiou, referente a este conteúdo, indicam que a utilização dos referidos recursos digitais no ensino-aprendizagem, fomentou a motivação para a realização de atividades propostas, facilitou a compreensão e a aprendizagem de conceitos e motivou os alunos para o estudo na disciplina de Ciências Físico-Químicas. Não podemos deixar de enfatizar a exploração do manual interativo, como um elemento extremamente inovador, e simultaneamente potenciador da disseminação de conhecimentos em espaços não convencionais de ensino, pela possibilidade de autoaprendizagem, respeitando as particularidades dos alunos. No entendimento de uma postura de abertura e de investigação permanente e, conscientes de que o ensino-aprendizagem engloba inúmeros fatores, apontamos alguns trajetos investigativos possíveis que poderão, eventualmente, despontar, a partir deste estudo. 

Acoustic phonetics applied to auditory training and the teaching of speech to the hearing impaired

This paper is a review of acoustic phonetics as applied to auditory training for hearing impaired children.

A study of the TAGS, an enduring teaching tool: teachers’ perspectives on the Teacher Assessment of Grammatical Structures teaching practices and application

This paper is studied look at the Teacher’s Assessment of Grammatical Structures (TAGS), Teacher Assessment of Spoken Language (TASL), and Cottage Acquisition Scales for Listening, Language and Speech (CASLLS) criterion-referenced language assessments as well as an inquiry into how teachers of the deaf use the TAGS currently as a teaching tool.

Experimental method for teaching specific language structures to hearing-impaired children

This paper presents an experimental Receptive-Expressive Multi-Modal Learning Program of Patterned Language Practice for hearing-impaired children.

An effective course of study for teaching hearing-impaired children TTY/TDD skills

This paper includes a course of study for teaching hearing impaired children about the use of TTY/TDD.

Curriculum guide for teaching sex education to 11 to 12 year old hearing impaired adolescents

This paper reviews a curriculum for sex education that is geared towards hearing impaired adolescents.

An effective course of study for teaching hearing-impaired children TTY/TDD skills

This paper includes a course of study for teaching hearing impaired children about the use of TTY/TDD.

An analysis of vocabulary and language constructions of six series of primary readers from the standpoint of teaching the deaf

This paper discusses a study to determnine the vocabulary and language construction of primary readers and suitability for use in teaching of hearing impaired children.

Video supplement for teaching "Little Red Riding Hood"

This paper examines the production of a videotape of “Little Red Riding Hood,” produced at Central Institute for the Deaf, as a supplemental tool in the teaching of fairy tales.

An educational curriculum outline for teaching sound and hearing in elementary schools

This paper provides curriculum on noise, ears, hearing and deafness for elementary school children.