Since ChatGPT emerged on November 30, 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly discussed as a radical force that will change our world. People have become used to AI in which such ubiquitous technologi...Since ChatGPT emerged on November 30, 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly discussed as a radical force that will change our world. People have become used to AI in which such ubiquitous technologies as Siri, Google, and Netflix deploy AI algorithms to answer questions, impart information, and provide recommendations. However, many individuals including originators and backers of AI have recently expressed grave concerns. In this paper, the authors will assess what is occurring with AI in Visual Arts Education, outline positives and negatives, and provide recommendations addressed specifically for teachers working in the field regarding emerging AI usage from kindergarten to grade twelve levels as well as in higher education.展开更多
Our study aims to take a closer look at China's current information literacy(IL) program standards at secondary schools and to analyze their level of success and/or failures in a comparative way with those of the ...Our study aims to take a closer look at China's current information literacy(IL) program standards at secondary schools and to analyze their level of success and/or failures in a comparative way with those of the United States in terms of fulfilling their each other's mission-oriented mandates. Our research findings show that China's current IL standards of high schools contain a disproportionate emphasis on information technology(IT). Moreover, the stipulations of these IL standards are narrowly construed and without being solidly grounded on a broad and comprehensive educational perspective. We also suggest that there are two underlying causes for this set of unsound IL standards in China.Firstly, there is a lack of collaboration between two major competing forces engaged in the curricular development and research of IL in China: Those professionals in educational IT discipline vis-à-vis those in Library and Information Science. Secondly, library professionals have a very limited influence on major socio-cultural policies, even at their own institutions. As a result, this paper recommends the following three possible measures,which may help remedy this situation strategically: 1) Establishing a set of new IL curriculum standards based on an IL-centered educational perspective; 2) establishing a teacher-librarian's training program to promote school librarians' role in IL education; and 3) strengthening the research and development of an online IL education program and an accompanied evaluation mechanism.展开更多
Human societies use a variety of semiotic modes for meaning construction.The ubiquity of images in today’s world,alone or in combination with other modes,makes competence with images or visual literacy a prerequisite...Human societies use a variety of semiotic modes for meaning construction.The ubiquity of images in today’s world,alone or in combination with other modes,makes competence with images or visual literacy a prerequisite of competence in life.Now identified as an essential literacy skill for 21st century learners in the digital age,visual literacy has been introduced into contemporary English curricula in a number of countries around the world.In China,the skill of viewing is added as one important component of language competence in National English Curriculum Standards for High School issued in 2017,thereby making the cultivation of visual literacy vital to secondary EFL education.This paper aims to present and discuss the current situation of visual literacy in secondary EFL education in China.It first provides an analysis of the ways of visual-verbal interplay for meaning construction in textbooks,and finds an uneven distribution of image-text relations in the current EFL textbooks,with a majority of images playing a supportive or illustrative role.Then it explicates the bi-dimensional three-level construct of visual literacy that is specified in the EFL curriculum,with which the subskills of visual literacy assessed in the latest large-scale EFL tests are compared,with a view to finding out the degree of correspondence between the subskills measured in the tests and the subskills expected in the curriculum.The result shows that only one dimension of reading visual texts is assessed,and the other dimension of writing visual texts is not evidenced.Finally suggestions are made for varied visual inputs,an expanded construct of visual literacy,and improvement of the washback effect of tests.展开更多
<strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this study was to explore patients’ preferences for forms of patient education material, including leaflets, podcasts, and videos;that is, to determine what forms of infor...<strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this study was to explore patients’ preferences for forms of patient education material, including leaflets, podcasts, and videos;that is, to determine what forms of information, besides that provided verbally by healthcare personnel, do patients prefer following visits to hospital? <strong>Methods: </strong>The study was a mixed-methods study, using a survey design with primarily quantitative items but with a qualitative component. A survey was distributed to patients over 18 years between May and July 2020 and 480 patients chose to respond.<strong> Results:</strong> Text-based patient education materials (leaflets), is the form that patients have the most experience with and was preferred by 86.46% of respondents;however, 50.21% and 31.67% of respondents would also like to receive patient education material in video and podcast formats, respectively. Furthermore, several respondents wrote about the need for different forms of patient education material, depending on the subject of the supplementary information. <strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides an overview of patient preferences regarding forms of patient education material. The results show that the majority of respondents prefer to use combinations of written, audio, and video material, thus applying and co-constructing a multimodal communication system, from which they select and apply different modes of communication from different sources simultaneously.展开更多
文摘Since ChatGPT emerged on November 30, 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly discussed as a radical force that will change our world. People have become used to AI in which such ubiquitous technologies as Siri, Google, and Netflix deploy AI algorithms to answer questions, impart information, and provide recommendations. However, many individuals including originators and backers of AI have recently expressed grave concerns. In this paper, the authors will assess what is occurring with AI in Visual Arts Education, outline positives and negatives, and provide recommendations addressed specifically for teachers working in the field regarding emerging AI usage from kindergarten to grade twelve levels as well as in higher education.
文摘Our study aims to take a closer look at China's current information literacy(IL) program standards at secondary schools and to analyze their level of success and/or failures in a comparative way with those of the United States in terms of fulfilling their each other's mission-oriented mandates. Our research findings show that China's current IL standards of high schools contain a disproportionate emphasis on information technology(IT). Moreover, the stipulations of these IL standards are narrowly construed and without being solidly grounded on a broad and comprehensive educational perspective. We also suggest that there are two underlying causes for this set of unsound IL standards in China.Firstly, there is a lack of collaboration between two major competing forces engaged in the curricular development and research of IL in China: Those professionals in educational IT discipline vis-à-vis those in Library and Information Science. Secondly, library professionals have a very limited influence on major socio-cultural policies, even at their own institutions. As a result, this paper recommends the following three possible measures,which may help remedy this situation strategically: 1) Establishing a set of new IL curriculum standards based on an IL-centered educational perspective; 2) establishing a teacher-librarian's training program to promote school librarians' role in IL education; and 3) strengthening the research and development of an online IL education program and an accompanied evaluation mechanism.
文摘Human societies use a variety of semiotic modes for meaning construction.The ubiquity of images in today’s world,alone or in combination with other modes,makes competence with images or visual literacy a prerequisite of competence in life.Now identified as an essential literacy skill for 21st century learners in the digital age,visual literacy has been introduced into contemporary English curricula in a number of countries around the world.In China,the skill of viewing is added as one important component of language competence in National English Curriculum Standards for High School issued in 2017,thereby making the cultivation of visual literacy vital to secondary EFL education.This paper aims to present and discuss the current situation of visual literacy in secondary EFL education in China.It first provides an analysis of the ways of visual-verbal interplay for meaning construction in textbooks,and finds an uneven distribution of image-text relations in the current EFL textbooks,with a majority of images playing a supportive or illustrative role.Then it explicates the bi-dimensional three-level construct of visual literacy that is specified in the EFL curriculum,with which the subskills of visual literacy assessed in the latest large-scale EFL tests are compared,with a view to finding out the degree of correspondence between the subskills measured in the tests and the subskills expected in the curriculum.The result shows that only one dimension of reading visual texts is assessed,and the other dimension of writing visual texts is not evidenced.Finally suggestions are made for varied visual inputs,an expanded construct of visual literacy,and improvement of the washback effect of tests.
文摘<strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this study was to explore patients’ preferences for forms of patient education material, including leaflets, podcasts, and videos;that is, to determine what forms of information, besides that provided verbally by healthcare personnel, do patients prefer following visits to hospital? <strong>Methods: </strong>The study was a mixed-methods study, using a survey design with primarily quantitative items but with a qualitative component. A survey was distributed to patients over 18 years between May and July 2020 and 480 patients chose to respond.<strong> Results:</strong> Text-based patient education materials (leaflets), is the form that patients have the most experience with and was preferred by 86.46% of respondents;however, 50.21% and 31.67% of respondents would also like to receive patient education material in video and podcast formats, respectively. Furthermore, several respondents wrote about the need for different forms of patient education material, depending on the subject of the supplementary information. <strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides an overview of patient preferences regarding forms of patient education material. The results show that the majority of respondents prefer to use combinations of written, audio, and video material, thus applying and co-constructing a multimodal communication system, from which they select and apply different modes of communication from different sources simultaneously.
