We propose that the cognitive mechanisms that enable the transmission of cultural knowledge by communication between individuals constitute a system of 'natural pedagogy' in humans, and represent an evolutionary adaptation along the hominin lineage. We discuss three kinds of arguments that support this hypothesis. First, natural pedagogy is likely to be human-specific: while social learning and...

For a Virtual Learning Environment a Digital Pedagogy is required, otherwise learning will be the same as usual with the only difference being, that reading and writing will be on the computer, and therefore the opportunity to use the Computer Science and Technology to empower the student’s learning is lost. The Digital Pedagogy needs to be Multi-Referential, which means that different knowledg...

There is widespread emphasis on reform in the teaching of introductory statistics at the college level. Underpinning this reform is a consensus among educators and practitioners that traditional curricular materials and pedagogical strategies have not been effective in promoting statistical literacy, a competency that is becoming increasingly necessary for effective decision-making and evidence...

The use of games in formal education and beyond demands a pedagogical model that guides technology-enhanced learning. Deriving inspiration from Connectionist and Constructionist epistemologies, a process-oriented methodology was developed for analysing and managing collaborative gamebased learning. Categories of interactions and the major factors that influence them during collaborative gaming ...

Programming assignments are an effective way for students to investigate many important and fun aspects of AI. However, for any task of reasonable breadth and depth, especially involving complex, compositional agents, actions, and graphics, most of the programming effort goes into mundane, tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone administrative aspects. Moreover, time constraints usually result...

ShelbySim is a student-friendly, pedagogy-oriented, open-source software system for designing, simulating, and evaluating a wide range of multidisciplinary, computer-based engineering applications. It consists of three top-level, seamlessly integrated and richly expressive components that focus on software, hardware, and a holistic combination of the two in realistic operational contexts. The s...

Life long, flexible, collaborative, and personalized learning are words that are being increasingly used, whenever education is discussed and designed. They express new and important demands on learning architectures, both with regard to pedagogy, organization and technology. Traditional learning architectures are based on teacher-centric and curriculum-oriented “knowledge-push”. In this paper ...

Background Physical education (PE) teachers in practically all countries are expected to help their students develop movement capability. To achieve this objective, need certain knowledge and competencies. The question of how PE should capacities task has received only limited research attention.Aim broad objective paper is contribute the literature on can competencies area capability related s...