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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"technological design"”.
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Cognitive Structural Change and the Technological Design Process
… competition and domestic demands for a technologically literate workforce, pressure is growing on the educational system to produce students that are literate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Integrative STEM education utilizes design-based pedagogical …
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How Do Secondary Science Teachers Understand and Implement Technological Design in Their Classrooms?
… around the country understand and implement technological design in their classrooms. The results of this study indicate that these teachers were drawn to the tenets of technological design because of its inherent challenge to their own pedagogical strategies, and its ability to stimulate and …
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An Investigation of the Integration of Science, Mathematics and Technology within a Technological Design Context
… of science, mathematics and technology in a technological design context. The daily classroom practices of a teacher and 19 of his students (aged 15-16) in a technology class were analysed with a focus on the knowledge and skills used while designing individualised projects (street luge …
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Softbridge : a socially aware framework for communication bridges over digital divides
… 'people' issues. The Softbridge stack aligns the technological design of communication systems with awareness of social factors characteristic of developing regions.
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A Critical Exploration of Permaculture’s Global Role in Sustainable Development
… in the UK, and various applicable advances in technological design, this paper focuses on the practices and key drivers of Permaculture in order to illustrate that the movement is, potentially, a cohesive component in assisting policy makers moving towards a sustainable future. Alternatively, …
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Institutionalization and innovation of instructional television at Carleton University
… have been institutionalized, not as a particular technological design, but as a focus for those who may wish to utilize a tool at the moment or to adopt an innovative practice. On the third purpose, it is concluded that the television course delivery service will have a role to play in the future …
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Twilight of virtualities: Imagining and playfulness in an ambiguous virtual reality
… in a different world. This steers contemporary technological design, improving the VR experience, as that it supports futuristic fantasies of for instance the Metaverse, with Mark Zuckerberg being one of its latest advocates. To virtually exist elsewhere. This thesis argues that the immersive …
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Softbridge : a socially aware framework for communication bridges over digital divides
… 'people' issues. The Softbridge stack aligns the technological design of communication systems with awareness of social factors characteristic of developing regions. In a similar fashion, a new evaluation abstraction called Quality of Communication augments traditional Quality of Service by …
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Making mathematical practice : gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England
… whose careers all intersected during the design and reconstruction of Dover harbour in the 1570s and ’80s. I show how English mathematical practice was fashioned through the technical and social strategies of its new practitioners. My practitioners make up a diverse group: from Thomas …
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Human-Centered System Design for an Aging Population: An Experimental Study of Footwear Design
… people aged 80+ will triple to 426 million. With technological and biomedical advances, people now expect to live not only longer, but also better, demanding improved quality of living and working environments to support later adulthood. This new longevity presents opportunities for designers and …
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Development of an Instrument to Evidence Knowledge Abstractions in Technological/Engineering Design-Based Activities
This document outlines the development of a Design Log Instrument (DLI) intended for use in identifying moments of abstraction as evidence of STEM content knowledge transfer. Many theoretical approaches to explaining knowledge transfer are rooted in a belief that transfer occurs through knowledge …
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Delivered: Living and Working with Algorithms
… in order to address the gap that exists between technological design of food delivery platforms and local economic practices, particularly the saliency of cash in Mexico City. Given that cash administration requires physicality, this task is delegated from platforms to couriers. This results in …
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From Documents to Data: The Emergence of National Biometric Identification Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries
… practices since 1904. By showing how the technological designs, forms of state governance, and notions of individual and national identity inscribed in prior British and Israeli biometric infrastructures influenced subsequent ones, the dissertation argues that national biometric systems …
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Dispoziční řešení malé obrobny v rámci dané firmy
Práce se zabývá návrhem dispozičního řešení obrobny pro výrobu těla trysky systému horkých vtoků, vyráběné v sérii 9000 ks/rok. V teoretické části jsou popsány základní postupy a zásady při technologickém projektování. V praktické části byly na základě zpracovaných kapacitních propočtů navrženy dvě …