POSITIVE THINKING PRACTICES IN SCHOOLS

Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools

Thinking in Object Structures: Teaching Modelling in Secondary Schools

We present a teaching strategy for the introduction of object-oriented concepts in secondary schools, whereby we focus on active learning of the basic concepts. The concept uses a learning sequence that fosters activities of the learners. Students start to explore a given object-oriented model on analysis and design level. Guidance is continuously reduced towards a project phase in which the st...

Social computational thinking tools: reinventing computation education in public schools

For the last 15 years we have been exploring notions of design and social media as means to foster highly engaging as well as effective educational environments. We have created what we call social computational thinking tools with the goal to synthesize human abilities with computer affordances. This presentation will outline three social computational thinking tools and discuss how they have ...

Systems Thinking Approach to Robotics Curriculum in Schools

This chapter presents a systems thinking approach for the conceptualization, design, and implementation of robotics curriculum to scaffold students’ learning of important Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) concepts and processes. This approach perceives the curriculum as a system of integrated elements and allows for the investigation of the interdependencies amongst the e...

Positive thinking in anxiety disordered children reconsidered.

Negatively valenced thoughts are assumed to play a central role in the development and maintenance of anxiety. However, the role of positive thoughts in anxiety is rather unclear. In the current study we examined the role of negative and positive self-statements in the anxiety level of anxious and non-anxious children. Participants were 139 anxiety disordered children and 293 non-anxious childr...