Executing Collaborative Brainstorming Idea Organization Through Distributed and Parallel Sorting

This chapter examines the post-convergence process of organizing ideas that are generated during collaborative idea generation activities. The method presented reduces the impact of organizing brainstorming ideas on individual participants by dividing the organization activity into smaller, discrete tasks that can be completed individually, and in parallel, by the participants. The entire pool of brainstorming ideas is subdivided into smaller pools and each participant is then tasked with organizing one of the subsets of ideas. The results show that by dividing up the overall activity into subtasks, the subjects experienced a more favorable environment. Furthermore, the subjects were able to work through their subset of ideas and produce results that were similar to those performing the full sort of the entire pool.

Learning from Mistakes: Students’ Perception towards Teacher's Attitude in Writing Correction

Most of writing teachers agree that writing skill is the most difficult subject for foreign language learners. The difficulties come from complexity of planning, idea organization, revision, and the use of lexical and grammatical. Correcting or giving feedback to students’ writing is also difficult for teachers, since it takes time and energy. Thus, this study tried to explore students’ perception towards teachers’ attitude in writing correction by distributing questionnaire to 20 students and 4 writing teachers, observing the teaching activities, and documenting students’ work. The study showed the result that teachers and students responses revealed various discrepancies between teachers and students’ perception for error and mistake correction. Then, most of students indicated that they do not understand the teachers’ feedback towards their writing composition. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers incorporate classroom discussions on error correction, feedback, and writing in order to help their students understand how feedback is intended to affect their writing and why it is given in particular way.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF SELF-REFLECTION IN PORTFOLIO TOWARD STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS

Writing is considered to be a sequence of complicated process in which the students need to organize their ideas and develop them into a systematic order. Due to its complexity process, students often find problems in writing, such as idea organization, sentence arrangements, punctuation, and capitalization. Consequently, this study examined the essay writing class students of the undergraduate program to find out whether or not self-reflection in portfolio gives contribution in improving their writing skills. A questionnaire, observational field notes, and document of students’ self-reflections were used to collect data about the students’ awareness about self-refection, portfolio and writing based on their perspectives. The findings reveal that the self-reflection in portfolio indeed has given contribution toward students’ writing through a set of guided questions so that the students become more aware about their strengths and weaknesses in every draft of their writing. Knowing those things will eventually help students to produce better writing on their own that lead them to be autonomous learners.

Sentence Composition: Language Map of Beginner Writers

This research was initiated to study the pattern of sentences written by students who were considered as beginner in their writing work. The further aim upon the study was to see what majority of the group approaches in developing their sentences in regards of their linguistic process as well as their idea organization. In respond to its initial drives, this study was approached in qualitative manner. There were 30 papers were examined and analyzed to synthesize the working approaches by the writers at common system and the attention was brought the individual sentence character and ideas organization throughout sentences and paragraphs. The findings suggest that the sentences were relatively good on language part but once the writing topics require their opinion and existing information, it started to decrease its quality. In such of writing, overgeneralized ideas and illogical structures are common. Therefore, since the writers were beginners, this research suggests supporting system that help the writers cope with their language barriers through introducing language on more complex language forms and together with practices. In addition to this, to support writers as the task environment increases reading materials are essential to help them build a more thoughtful writing piece.

Educação financeira e as contribuições do pensamento computacional em uma proposta de atividade voltada à tomada de decisão

Resumo: Neste artigo trazemos uma atividade voltada à tomada de decisão em Educação Financeira, realizada no ambiente Scratch. Identificamos e valorizamos as contribuições do Pensamento Computacional no processo de elaboração da atividade, diante da sua relação com o raciocínio e os processos de pensamento. O objetivo é discutir como a Matemática e as discussões financeiras se fazem presentes, a partir de uma atividade que considera o Pensamento Computacional como um caminho para a tomada de decisão, de forma reflexiva e crítica. A análise da atividade, em conjunto com as contribuições teóricas apresentadas, nos mostra que esse caminho pode contribuir com os processos de pensamento, raciocínio, resolução de problemas e organização de ideias, indispensáveis para a tomada de decisões financeiras. Palavras-chave: Scratch; Educação Matemática; Educação Básica. Financial education and the contributions of the computacional thinking in a decision-making activity proposal Abstract: In this article we bring an activity focused on decision making in Financial Education, carried out in Scratch software. We identify and value the contributions of Computational Thinking in the process of elaboration of the activity, in relation to its relation with reasoning and thought processes. The objective is to discuss how Mathematics and financial discussions are presented, from an activity that considers computational thinking as a path to decision making, reflectively and critically. The analysis of the activity, together with the theoretical contributions presented, shows that this path can contribute to the processes of thinking, reasoning, problem solving and idea organization, indispensable for financial decision-making. Keywords: Scratch; Mathematics Education; Basic Education.

MOTIF KETERTARIKAN PEMBACA:

Reading activity which is supported by the rich reading materials has shown its positive influence in the development of civilized society today. Besides being a part of religious orders, reading is an attempt to acquire and strengthen knowledge as well as to gain new experience. The reading content reflects the needs and objectives of the readers. Now, the relationship between the authors and the readers should met. The integrity of reading content is built by the organization of main ideas and supporting ideas, making it easier for readers to analyze patterns of structured, phased, and logical orders. The idea organization in a reading text stimulates the brain to evaluate and control over what it reads. Therefore, it needs what is known as metacognition in order to create the critical literacy for our community as the text readers. We certainly expect that reading is to construct our community to be more intelligent and insightful through the ideas presented, without getting slipped on undesirable mission of the authors.