scholarly journals Learner Dashboards a Double-Edged Sword? Students’ Sense-Making of a Collaborative Critical Reading and Learning Analytics Environment for Fostering 21st Century Literacies

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan ◽  
Elizabeth Koh ◽  
Christin Rekha Jonathan ◽  
Simon Yang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
21St Century Literacies ◽  
K 12

The affordances of learning analytics (LA) tools and solutions are being increasingly harnessed for enhancing 21st century pedagogical and learning strategies and outcomes. However, use cases and empirical understandings of students’ experiences with LA tools and environments aimed at fostering 21st century literacies, especially in the K-12 schooling sector and in Asian education contexts remain relatively scarce in the field. Our paper addresses this knowledge gap in two ways. First, we present a first iteration design of a computer-supported collaborative critical reading and LA environment, WiREAD, and its 16-week implementation in a Singapore high school. Second, we foreground students’ evaluative accounts of the benefits and drawbacks associated with this techno-pedagogical innovation. Our analysis of students’ collective sense-making pointed to a number of potentialities and perils associated with the design and use of LA dashboards. Positives included (1) fostering greater self-awareness, reflective and self-regulatory learning dispositions, (2) enhancing learning motivation and engagement, and (3) nurturing connective literacy among students. The motivational value of peer-referenced LA visualisations for stimulating healthy competition and game-like learning was identified, alongside the perils of these serving to demoralise, pressurise and trigger complacency in learners. By focusing on students’ experiences and interpretations of how the LA dashboard visualizations impacted their learning motivation and outcomes, this paper aims to shed insights into the pedagogical complexities of designing LA that considers the voices of learners as a critical stakeholder group.

Translating Traditional Writing Process Tools to Digital Ones

2015 ◽  
pp. 1406-1420
Author(s):  
Keri R. Franklin ◽  
Kathy Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Writing ◽  
21St Century Literacies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
K 12 ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Writing Tools

This chapter offers user-friendly free applications to help teachers incorporate digital writing tools in their classrooms. The authors encourage a collaborative and inquiry-driven environment to help teachers implement new digital tools that can motivate students and develop 21st century writers. The authors use the NCTE's Definition of 21st Century Literacies (2013) to discuss digital writing tools. The authors offer a framework for scaffolding the introduction of these applications in K-12 classrooms and in professional development and align traditional writing process tools to digital writing tools.

scholarly journals Students’ sense-making of personalised feedback based on learning analytics

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Lisa-Angelique Lim ◽  
Shane Dawson ◽  
Dragan Gašević ◽  
Srećko Joksimović ◽  
Anthea Fudge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Personalised Feedback

Although technological advances have brought about new opportunities for scaling feedback to students, there remain challenges in how such feedback is presented and interpreted. There is a need to better understand how students make sense of such feedback to adapt self-regulated learning processes. This study examined students’ sense-making of learning analytics–based personalised feedback across four courses. Results from a combination of thematic analysis and epistemic network analysis show an association between student perceptions of their personalised feedback and how these map to subsequent self-described self-regulated learning processes. Most notably, the results indicate that personalised feedback, elaborated by personal messages from course instructors, helps students refine or strengthen important forethought processes of goal-setting, as well as to reduce procrastination. The results highlight the need for instructors to increase the dialogic element in personalised feedback in order to reduce defensive reactions from students who hold to their own learning strategies. This approach may prompt reflection on the suitability of students’ current learning strategies and achievement of associated learning goals. Implications for practice or policy: Personalised feedback based on learning analytics should be informed by an understanding of students’ self-regulated learning. Instructors implementing personalised feedback should align this closely with the course curriculum. Instructors implementing personalised feedback in their courses should consider the relational element of feedback by using a positive tone. Personalised feedback can be further enhanced by increasing the dialogic element and by including more information about learning strategies.

Translating Traditional Writing Process Tools to Digital Ones

2014 ◽  
pp. 386-400
Author(s):  
Keri R. Franklin ◽  
Kathy Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Writing ◽  
21St Century Literacies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
K 12 ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Writing Tools

This chapter offers user-friendly free applications to help teachers incorporate digital writing tools in their classrooms. The authors encourage a collaborative and inquiry-driven environment to help teachers implement new digital tools that can motivate students and develop 21st century writers. The authors use the NCTE's Definition of 21st Century Literacies (2013) to discuss digital writing tools. The authors offer a framework for scaffolding the introduction of these applications in K-12 classrooms and in professional development and align traditional writing process tools to digital writing tools.

Anxiety in reading and listening English as a foreign language in Chinese undergraduate students

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow ◽  
Hey Tou Chiu ◽  
Simpson W. L. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Behavioral Correlates ◽  
Listening Anxiety ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Chinese Undergraduates ◽  
Efl Learning

This study tested relationships between foreign language (FL) reading and listening anxiety and learner variables in English as a foreign language (EFL). It tested links between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and its cognitive, affective and behavioral correlates in English (i.e. language learning strategies, learning motivation, and performance). Three-hundred-and-six Chinese undergraduates learning EFL were administered the measures via a questionnaire. Regression analyses indicated that EFL performance and EFL motivation were key factors that uniquely predicted EFL reading and listening anxiety. However, the role of EFL learning strategies was not significant after the effects of EFL performance and EFL motivation were controlled for. Despite this, mediation analyses revealed that EFL learning strategies had a significant indirect effect on EFL reading performance and listening anxiety levels with EFL learning motivation as a mediator. This suggests its secondary role in affecting FL anxieties. These findings provide important implications regarding assessment of students’ FL anxiety level as well as identification of and intervention for those with FL difficulties. These findings have extended past studies by highlighting the relative importance of these cognitive, affective and behavioral correlates on Chinese undergraduates’ EFL anxiety in specific domains.

What Is Social Inclusion? Insights From Interventions With Youth Across Migration Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Colette Daiute ◽  
Bengi Sullu ◽  
Tünde Kovács-Cerović
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
Behavioral Assessments ◽  
Supportive Interventions ◽  
Migration Systems

Social inclusion is a goal of 21st-century education and social welfare, yet research with violently displaced youth leaves gaps in its meaning. Social inclusion, a societal aim, lacks the perspectives of youth at its center. Given the pressures and power relations involved in learning how young people think and feel about social injustices and the support they need, developmental researchers must find innovative ways to study youth experiences and intentions in relation to environments, especially environments that threaten young lives. Emerging research highlights how displaced youth, peers along their journeys, and adults guiding supportive interventions make audible the meaning of social inclusion. Policy paradigms would benefit from research on sense-making in interventions rather than from emphasizing behavioral assessments and assimilation to local norms, as implied by social inclusion.

Determinants of the learning motivation of students in business education at universities in Ho Chi Minh City

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 741-753
Author(s):  
Tran Duc Tai ◽  
Le Thi Thanh Truc ◽  
Nguyen Thu Phuong ◽  
Dau Thi Phuong Uyen ◽  
Nguyen Thi Kim Lien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Self Awareness

This study primarily unearths measure and evaluate the determinants influencing business students' learning motivation at universities in Ho Chi Minh City through the self-administered questionnaires with 257 students. The results show all seven factors of (1) social factors; (2) learning environment; (3) lecturers’ behaviour; (4) family and friend influence; (5) students’ self-awareness; (6) student’s willpower and (7) student viewpoint have impacted on learning motivation of business students. In addition, suggestions and recommendations are proposed to enhance student motivation in higher education.

Learning strategies for engagement and retention of young audiences

IFLA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-268
Author(s):  
Luz Santa María Muxica
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Young Audiences ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
American Library ◽  
Cultural Rights

This article examines the available literature on engaging young audiences to visit libraries, museums and performing arts shows, and their strategies for developing permanent audiences. The recommendations drawn from the review serve as an input for the Latin American Library for Children and Youth that is currently in a planning stage. Ideas regarding program, partnerships, communication and promotion of libraries in the context of the 21st century are explained in accordance with an audience approach that emphasises the presentness of children and youth, the demands and motivation of cultural participants, and the need to enable cultural rights.

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