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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Tinkering."”.
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Explorations in computational tinkering
… In this thesis, I focus instead on computational tinkering, exploring tools and strategies to support playful and iterative experimentation with physical and computational materials. I propose two different ways to look at computational tinkering: bringing the playful attitude of tinkering to …
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Explorations in musical tinkering
This thesis introduces the idea of "musical tinkering," exploring how to engage people in playfully creating and experimenting with their own musical instruments and compositions. I discuss the design and study of two new tools for musical tinkering, MelodyMorph and MaKey MaKey. MelodyMorph is an …
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Tinkering with ScratchBit : explorations in blended making
In recent years, maker and coding movements have gained significant traction in learning communities around the world. To meet the needs of these movements, various forms of physical and digital construction kits have begun to emerge. Often times these construction kits facilitate creation in only …
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Tinkering with Nature of Science (NOS) learning: The development of an evidence-based coding framework to identify primary pupils’ encounters with NOS when Tinkering
… of primary school pupils participating in ‘Tinkering’ activities. Specifically, it investigates the opportunities for pupils to encounter and acknowledge aspects of the nature of science (NOS). Tinkering is here defined as an approach to inquiry-based learning (IBL) that offers a playful, …
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Tinkering with Student Speech in the Age of Social Media
<p>This dissertation investigates the issue of public junior high and high school students who are punished at school for their online speech that they created when they were off-campus. Specifically, it examines the issue of when students are punished at school for online speech that criticizes …
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Civic Tinkering in a Small City: Imaginaries and Intersections of Art, Place and Marginality
… development: studying and supporting civic tinkering activities, recognizing the relevance of localized imaginaries and urban identity projects, valuing full participation in the project of the city, and conducting place-specific and critical analyses.
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Tinkering at the Edges of Public Education Teacher and Parent Perceptions of West Virginia Universal Pre-kindergarten
West Virginia commenced the state universal pre-kindergarten program in 2002, being one of the first states to implement a universal early childhood education program for all fouryear- olds. Ten years later the program is approaching the goal year of full implementation. Research in the field was …
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Tinkering with Food and Family: Striving for Good Care in an Eating Disorder Treatment Centre in Italy
This thesis examines practices of care in an Italian public treatment centre for people diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Drawing on patient-focused anthropological accounts of eating disorders as ‘technologies of the self’, and on existing ethnographic works that have highlighted the …
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Tinkering with technology and religion in the digital age : the effects of Internet use on religious belief, behavior, and belonging.
… This paper elaborates on the concept of "tinkering" discussed by Berger, Berger, and Kellner (1974), Turkle (1997), and Wuthnow (2010) to argue that Internet use affects how people think about and affiliate with religious traditions. Using data from Wave III of the Baylor Religion Survey …
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An Evaluation of Teaching Methods Based on Cognitive Achievement
… perceptions of lecture versus demonstration and tinkering self-efficacy on student achievement.</p> <p>A true experimental pretest-posttest design (#2) was used to conduct this research (Campbell & Stanley, 1996). The population consisted of all students enrolled in high school agricultural …
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Grounding Techne
… I tested this idea by developing a series of tinkering projects or ""physical sketches"" of new tools for landscape architects: a Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS), the Digital Nerve, the Haptic Surveyor, and the Baro-Receiver. I found that tinkering can produce new tools that beget new …
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The Open Agency Project : operations in the Creative UnCommons
… of loopholes in restrictive codes, and hacking/tinkering rather than master planning, this office aims to insert architectural ideas into unexpected places and spur the imaginative rethinking of familiar problems. The open-source sharing of research, process and design is embraced and DIY …
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Designing for Tinkerability for Accessibility
… designed to support learning through tinkering and play, making them ideal educational tools for a younger audience. While block-based coding may be more accessible to young programmers compared to more complex text-based languages, many of these visual coding environments are …
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Three essays on the dynamic ownership and governance of U.S. farmer cooperatives /
… to remain optimal in the competitive market. Tinkering is the adaptation of constitutional rights, policies, and procedures to adjust member objectives, and reinventing is defined as the adaptation of organizational scope or purpose to adjust cooperative actions. As such, tinkering and …
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Dead ringers recalling obsolete machines in living rooms
… functional objects and visual spectacles. Tinkering techniques are employed as an art method to reanimate discarded electronics. Discarded electronic components are salvaged and repurposed, ultimately resulting in hybridised machines. The production evokes Mary Shelley's gothic novel, …
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Enlightenment: error & experiment: Henry Cavendish's Electrical researches
… and Pickering’s view of experimenters’ "tinkering" (in his mangle of practice) and show that neither is either a necessary part of experimental practice nor holds for Cavendish’s experiments.
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Visualizing remixes in an online programming community
… to see all of its code and assets, and begin tinkering with them as if they were their own. This new revision branches from the original project, creating what we call a "remix" project. Recently, the authoring environment has been rebuilt as "Scratch 2.0", which brings what used to be a …
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Exploring the COVID-19 Impact and Process of Value Change Towards Work and Leisure Among Millennials: "What Would I Rather Have: A Topped-Up RRSP or Stories of a Month Doing My Dive Master?"
… then proceeded with a maintenance period of tinkering and increasing flexibility to seek the highest form of value-expressive behaviour. Lastly, participants sought validation from self and from others. Keywords: COVID-19, Work, Values, Millennials, Grounded Theory
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Medical error: Overcoming barriers to truthful disclosure
… care. There is more to culture change than tinkering with\r\nautomation, organizational policies, and caps on malpractice damages.\r\nA humanistic inquiry, this dissertation reviews and critiques explanations of what\r\nhappens to the erring health professional when faced with owning up to …
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Grey Milk & Lost Kin Re-sounding, Re-visioning and Re-membering Trauma in the Scottish Nawkin Archives
… institutional capture. Through kin(a)esthetic tinkering and writing along the film track, the thesis enacts an anarchival, anti-disciplinary praxis that reimagines research as ritual, poetics, and refusal. Framed as a potential history (Azoulay 2024), the research reimagines Nawkin cosmologies …
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