The goal of mathematics teaching in primary school is not just to acquire knowledge mathematical ideas and procedures, but also learn reasoning. While this common knowledge, the reality everyday math classrooms Latvia an open question. results from recent national diagnostics give reason re-examine practices. aim study clarify what happening understand needs gaps teaching. This will serve as ba...

Today’s organizations need to develop innovative ideas through teamwork, be it in small teams or large crowds. While organizations can swiftly gather a rich set of ideas, they are increasingly challenged with how to focus on a manageable set of ideas that are likely to serve their goals. Facilitation techniques can support convergence, a team process in which members reduce and clarify ideas, b...

UrbanSim is a large-scale simulation system that models the development of urban areas over periods of 20 or more years. Its purpose is to help citizens and local governments make more informed decisions about major transportation and land use issues, by projecting the long-term consequences of the different alternatives. Citizens often bring strongly held values to such decisions, for example ...

This thesis explores the need for software tools to aid in the conceptual stage of product design processes in a geographically distributed work environment. While the need for such a solution exists, there have been few strides to update the tools engineers currently use. The 2.009 design process is used as a model to better understand the particular needs of conceptual design. The intent of t...

The game industry is often accused for not being original and inventive enough, making sequels and transmediations instead of creating new game concepts and genres. Idea creation in game development has not been studied much by scholars. This paper explores the origin of game design ideas, with the purpose of creating a classification of the domains the ideas are drawn from. Design ideas in 25 ...

Purpose – The assumption of ecological thinking as a main ideology for social systems implies many relevant changes concerning the relation between social and ecological systems. Changes meaning a deep redefinition of goals and strategies pursued for centuries by human communities, like the uncertainty reduction in relation to resources’ availability and management, defence respect to variance ...

Abstract In the Transcendental Dialectic , Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from understanding and offered short formula “the faculty principles” ( KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one not most pertinent general mark reason. There are more compelling expressions in Kant’s Reflexionen third Critique and/or reception works: ideas” Refl 5553 18:228 KU 5:269) ...

THE CENTER for Curriculum Materials in Science (CCMS) and the Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) Center promote the design of curriculum materials and technology tools that help students develop an understanding of important connections among science ideas and the inclination and ability to use those ideas to make sense of the world. Researchers at both centers analyze the fragmente...

Inclusive curriculum development in Higher Education is increasingly witnessing the of institutional inclusive frameworks and toolkits. This short paper introduces one such framework recently developed at a modern university South East England. The IDEAS model (Inclusive learning teaching, Digital inclusion, Employability learning, assessment for Sustainability mindset) involves range distincti...