Exploring Kenyan Women University Students’ Everyday Interaction with Information

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Shannon
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Nous Avons ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Kenyan Women ◽  
Everyday Interaction

A social constructionist methodology was used to explore how Kenyan women university students interact with information in everyday life. Focus was on how participants interpret experiences within the historical, cultural, and material spaces they inhabit. Methods used were linguistics pragmatics, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. Conceptual implications for information literacy are discussed.Une méthodologie sociale constructioniste est utilisée pour explorer comment les étudiantes universitaires kenyanes interagissent avec l’information au quotidien. Nous avons insisté sur les façons dont les participantes interprètent leurs expériences dans les espaces historiques, culturels et matériels où elles habitent. Les méthodologies utilisées comprennent la pragmatique linguistique, la phénoménologie et l’herméneutique. Nous discutons finalement de leurs implications sur la maîtrise de l’information. 

Information Literacy Profiles of University Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Fabiola Cabra-Torres ◽  
Gloria Patricia Marciales Vivas ◽  
Harold Castañeda-Peña ◽  
Jorge Winston Barbosa-Chacón ◽  
Leonardo Melo González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Literacy Profiles

scholarly journals Pocket Labs Supported IoT Teaching

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir M Cvjetkovic
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Teaching Concept ◽  
Regular Text ◽  
Natural Solution ◽  
University Course

IoT is both a concept and a specific platform with large variety of applications that rapidly become inseparable part of everyday life not only improving it, but making it more interesting and fun. ICT based, it is devoted to interactions with environment that are usually not available with traditional ICT equipment and platforms. IoT is at the same time both complementary and compatible with exist-ing non IoT world, which offers computing power and resources to IoT, making it a unique and powerful combination. Pocket Lab is a relatively new teaching concept that supports students’ creativity and initiative allowing for carrying and experimenting with real equipment at a time and place of choice, much like using of regular text books for studying. Although the IoT & Pocket Labs are not nec-essarily interconnected or mutually conditioned, this paper discusses such a real case of teaching practice, where the Pocket Labs are a natural solution for teach-ing of IoT. The paper deals with one semester teaching experience of IoT as a university course. Obtained results and experience may be quite general except for university students profile defined with their previous education and knowledge. Besides the main goal of the course which is an introduction to IoT, some other aims were exploring the students’ motivation for studying of IoT as a new technology and emphasizing the importance of new original ideas and views being as important as mastering the IoT technologies.

scholarly journals Implementasi Nilai-Nilai Falsafah Ojo Dumeh Dikalangan Mahasiswa Universitas Bina Nusantara

Humaniora ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Besar Besar
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Teaching Philosophies ◽  
Exploratory Data ◽  
The Relationship

Ojo Dumeh is the old philosophy that comes from Javanese language that has meaning do not being arrogant. If the value of this philosophy is implemented, it will have incredible power because old values never fade. The three main pillars of this are Ojo Dumeh, Ojo Gumunan, Ojo Kagetan; each of which has implemented power. The message is always delivered by parents to their children from childhood with the intention that their children do not become someone who are arrogant and always appreciate a friend or someone else. Research at BINUS University students are to learn about the importance of Ojo Dumeh in everyday life among students and to know more deeply about the relationship between philosophies Ojo Dumeh with changes in student behavior. The methodology of the research is exploratory, data used are primary data and secondary data obtained from the first source of BINUS University students, and the data obtained from the teaching philosophies that are books and literature. Based on the research, it can be concluded that the Ojo Dumeh philosophy needs to be implemented in the lives of students and believe that by applying this philosophy Ojo Dumeh the relationship will be better. 

Resistance to Information Literacy! Towards a Model of Information Literacy for Undergraduate Students: An Exploratory Study

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Lamoureux
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Undergraduate University Students ◽  
Premier Cycle

Research Roundtable: Undergraduate university students benefit from information literacy (IL) instructions and yet they resist learning IL. This research proposes to explore the factors responsible for students’ resistance to IL in order to create a conceptual model and to improve information literacy instruction.Tables rondes: Les étudiants universitaires de premier cycle tirent avantage de séances d’enseignement de la maîtrise de l’information et malgré tout, ils font preuve de résistance. Ce processus de recherche explore les facteurs responsables de la résistances des étudiants afin de créer un modèle conceptuel et d’améliorer l’enseignement de la maîtrise de l’information.

scholarly journals Fiction as Information

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Ann Harlan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Glass Door ◽  
Aesthetic Reading ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
Source Of Information

Information Literacy is built on the idea that when we encounter information we can evaluate that information to incorporate into our knowledge schema. As such information can be encountered in a variety of ways, as academic information, workplace information, or everyday life information.  Art forms can also be considered information, including literature. As an art form literature has been theorized to be a window, mirror, and a sliding glass door (Bishop, 1990) to the reader, an information source regarding our world. The notion that fiction is an information source is not particularly considered in much of the information literacy scholarly research. This paper examines how adolescents engage with fiction as a source of information.   Using a small case study of a class of 16 and 17 year olds the paper examines how they construct ficiton and aesthetic reading as an information source, particularly using the metaphor of the window and the mirror.  While students might consider reading as a way to explore their identity, elements related to their stance towards reading impacted their ability to see reading fiction as an information source.  Furthermore they were unlikely to engage fiction as a "window" or a way to learn about others.  Specific pedagogical structures may encourage a more critical stance towards aesthetic reading as a way to engage in as a learning object.  

scholarly journals CYBERSPACE AS A SPACE: ANALYSIS OF METAPHORICAL STATEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 838-857
Author(s):  
Michal Černý
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
New Space ◽  
Learning And Cognition ◽  
Movement Orientation

Over the last thirty years, technology has created a new space (cyberspace) where people meet each other, seek information, or simply try to navigate through. However, there is no consensus in research on the character of cyberspaces and the extent to which they are real. In the first systematic empirical research of this nature, the study found an answer to this question through a survey of metaphorical accounts of university students in Information Studies, and Librarianship (N=102) collected over three years (2019-2021). Cyberspace is a real space in students' experiences, language, and thought structures. A space that allows movement, orientation, and search to be related with one another. An environment in which cognition, learning, and knowledge are structuring activities. Learning and cognition in this space occur differently than in the physical environment, which poses a challenge for developing specific didactic practices and social programs for students. Students perceive cyberspace as linked to the need to acquire new epistemic tools to help them overcome the crisis of knowledge they experience through this space. Keywords: cyberspace, didactic practices, information literacy, metaphors, pragmatism, tacit knowledge, on life

scholarly journals Cognitive and Ethical Bases of Discourse and Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Anna Mikhailovna Oleshkova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Complex Method ◽  
Mental Phenomenon

The definitions of discourse are varied, bearing both philosophical and philological features. Discourse is a means to establish social relationships as well as their result. Discourse analysis (including its varie-ties) presents new empirical opportunities for schol-ars, who are seeking understanding of social reality. Discourse analysis is a complex method that has a potential to be applied to various studies: sociology, political theory, philosophy, linguistics, cultural studies, history, etc. The capacity of discourse to constitute everyday life gives us an opportunity to interpret social reality, our experiences and mean-ings that are created within it. In social-constructionist epistemology the major role is given to these two perspectives: cognitive (where dis-course is viewed as a mental phenomenon, repre-sented in texts) and ethical (where discourse is viewed as a condition for social action). These are the aspects of understanding of discourse and the methods for its examination.

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