The purpose of this literature study is to obtain information about educational approaches to teaching 11 to 12 years old children focusing on how to distinguish between real news and fake news. With this purpose we studied 16 academic papers about learning activities to make primary school children media-literate and able to recognise fake news. What we found is that having children create their own news messages seems to be the most effective approach. News messages that they create can be text messages as well as videos, audios, pictures and animations. Based on this conclusion, students from The Hague University of Applied Sciences Teacher Training Institute (PABO) have been asked to develop a set of learning materials that can be used for instruction in primary schools. The effectiveness of those materials is currently being tested at an elementary school in Rijswijk. The results of the literature and the field study will be shared in the Dutch centre of expertise for media literacy education, Mediawijzer.net.
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High level circular use of post-consumer insulating glass units will contribute to lower the environmental and social impact of insulation glass industry. The application of various circular strategies for insulating glass units (IGU’s) is rising. The product age will give an indication of the remaining life-time of an IGU, but a method which includes screening a technical quality is needed to check if an IGU is indeed suitable for re-use on a high level of circularity. In this study the argon concentration is suggested as discriminative quality. Energy efficient double glazing applied in windows of buildings situated in The Netherlands were studied. Product codes were noted and unraveled. Measurements were performed using the Sparklike Laser Portable, a non-invasive argon measuring device, which generates argon concentration, glass thickness and cavity width values. In addition, measurements were performed with a Glass Check thickness meter. The resulting data were analyzed. Measuring errors were explored and used to setup a testing procedure. Threshold values of the product age and argon concentration were selected for different circular strategies. In conclusion, a screening method using the product age and argon concentration to determine the circular use potential of insulating glass units is proposed.
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The main aim of KiNESIS is to create a Knowledge Alliance among academia, NGOs, communities, local authorities, businesses to develop a program of multidisciplinary activities in shrinking areas with the aim of promoting and fostering ideas, projects, workforce, productivity and attractiveness. The problems affecting peripheral territories in rural or mountain areas of the interior regions, compared to small, medium or large population centres and large European capitals, are related to complex but clear phenomena: the emigration of young generations, abandonment and loneliness of elderly people, the loss of jobs, the deterioration of buildings and land, the closing of schools and related services, the disappearance of traditions and customs, the contraction of local governments, which in absence of adequate solutions can only generate worse conditions, leading to the abandonment of areas rich in history, culture and traditions. It is important that these communities - spread all over Europe - are not abandoned since they are rich in cultural traditions, which need to be preserved with a view to new developments, intended as "intelligent" rebirth and recovery.The focus of KiNESIS is to converge the interest of different stakeholders by recalling various skills around abandoned villages to make them "smart" and "attractive".Keeping in mind the triangular objectives of cooperation and innovation of research, higher education and business of the Knowledge Alliance action, the project aims are: i) revitalising depopulated areas by stimulating entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills; ii) creating local living laboratories, shared at European level, in which the exchange of knowledge, best practices, experiences can help promote social inclusion and entrepreneurial development;iii) experimenting new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches in teaching and learning; iv) facilitating the exchange, flow and co-creation of knowledge at a local and global level.
Gebouwautomatiseringssystemen voor de utiliteitssector zoals kantoren, scholen, ziekenhuizen vereisen steeds meer functionaliteit om tegemoet te komen aan nieuwe eisen en wensen van gebouwbeheer en eindgebruikers op gebied van o.a. comfort, bezetting, onderhoud interieur, afvalbeheer, energie en dergelijke. De recente technologische ontwikkelingen maken het mogelijk om de gebouwbeheersystemen in te zetten voor innovatieve toepassingen. Maar door lastige toegankelijkheid van bestaande systemen kunnen gebouwbeheerders onvoldoende gebruik maken van deze vernieuwingen. Fabrikanten van gebouwbeheersystemen (GBS) hebben hun producten (vaak op basis van BACnet) veelal zo ingericht dat onderlinge competitie en vrije marktwerking voor verschillende vernieuwende elementen op gebied van digitalisering van beheer- en onderhoudstaken moeilijk is. Recente ontwikkelingen maken het mogelijk binnen de field layer van BACnet dat nieuwe devices aan het bestaande gebouwbeheersysteem gekoppeld kunnen worden en reeds bestaande devices kunnen worden aangestuurd. Nieuwe open source data-mining applicaties (bijv. van Rapid Miner, IBM, Oracle) bieden daarbij de mogelijkheid nieuwe gegevens te genereren om het beheer van gebouwen verder te optimaliseren. Deze ontwikkelingen maken de weg vrij voor verdere toepassingen en innovaties en bieden kansen voor betrokken bedrijven in deze sector. Echter, gebouwbeheerders en installateurs zijn nog onwetend of onzeker van de mogelijkheden m.b.t. prestaties, robuustheid, integreerbaarheid en ondersteuning terwijl de behoefte tot nieuwe diensten groeit. In dit KIEM project wordt met een consortium van een sensor/ICT-ontwikkelbedrijf (Octo), een totaal installateur (E+W) (Lomans Amersfoort), een gebouwbeheerder (HU bedrijfsvoering) en drie onderzoekers uit verschillende lectoraten van de hogeschool Utrecht verkend welke open source datamining tools en innovatieve sensorsystemen van belang kunnen zijn voor de huidige gebouwautomatisering. Er wordt verkend waar de knelpunten zijn en waar de kansen liggen tot integratie. Daarbij kan gedacht worden aan diensten op basis van gebouwbeheer zoals gegarandeerd comfortabel binnenklimaat, efficiënte bezettingsgraad van ruimtes, vernieuwend afvalbeheer en optimale energiehuishouding. Maar ook andere potentiële diensten zullen verder worden onderzocht samen met ketenpartners en ICT/sensorsysteem-innovators. Deze verkenningen worden vertaald naar een programma voor vervolgonderzoek.
In summer 2020, part of a quay wall in Amsterdam collapsed, and in 2010, construction for a parking lot in Amsterdam was hindered by old sewage lines. New sustainable electric systems are being built on top of the foundations of old windmills, in places where industry thrived in the 19th century. All these examples have one point in common: They involve largely unknown and invisible historic underground structures in a densely built historic city. We argue that truly circular building practices in old cities require smart interfaces that allow the circular use of data from the past when planning the future. The continuous use and reuse of the same plots of land stands in stark contrast with the discontinuity and dispersed nature of project-oriented information. Construction and data technology improves, but information about the past is incomplete. We have to break through the lack of historic continuity of data to make building practices truly circular. Future-oriented construction in Amsterdam requires historic knowledge and continuous documentation of interventions and findings over time. A web portal will bring together a range of diverse public and private, professional and citizen stakeholders, each with their own interests and needs. Two creative industry stakeholders, Yume interactive (Yume) and publisher NAI010, come together to work with a major engineering office (Witteveen+Bos), the AMS Institute, the office of Engineering of the Municipality of Amsterdam, UNESCO NL and two faculties of Delft University of Technology (Architecture and Computer Science) to inventorize historic datasets on the Amsterdam underground. The team will connect all the relevant stakeholders to develop a pilot methodology and a web portal connecting historic data sets for use in contemporary and future design. A book publication will document the process and outcomes, highlighting the need for circular practices that tie past, present and future.
