Interdisciplinary Instruction: Between Art and Literature

Students ́ Interests and Interdisciplinary Instruction in Mathematics and Science

This paper presents the research project IFUN Interest and Interdisciplinary Instruction in Science and Mathematics. As researchers in mathematics and science education we are basically interested in how students’ learning and understanding in these subjects might be improved. Many research studies indicate that students’ interest in science and mathematics declines during lower secondary schoo...

English Pronunciation Instruction: A Literature Review

English pronunciation instruction is difficult for some reasons. Teachers are left without clear guidelines and are faced with contradictory practices for pronunciation instruction. There is no well-established systematic method of deciding what to teach, when, and how to do it. As a result of these problems, pronunciation instruction is less important and teachers are not very comfortable in t...

Between Instruction and Reward

Intelligent systems promise to amplify, augment, and extend innate human abilities. A principal example is that of assistive rehabilitation robots—artificial intelligence and machine learning enable new electromechanical systems that restore biological functions lost through injury or illness. In order for an intelligent machine to assist a human user, it must be possible for a human to communi...

Improving Student Thinking Through Elementary Art Instruction

The Art of Instruction Set Design

I will argue in this work that because of the flexibility offered by the field programmable devices, such as FPGA, the instruction set design becomes an essential part of designing digital systems of the future. There are advantages to experiment with microarchitecture and instruction set design to fit various applications. I will illustrate by a series of evolution of instruction set design fo...