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Ortiz, Rebecca R.; Smith, Andrea – Journal of School Violence, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and implementation of a text message intervention to teach adolescents bystander intervention strategies. Adolescents (N = 123) engaged daily for 15 days with bystander education materials and questions sent to them by text message to their personal cell phones. The likelihood to intervene on…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Kevser Tozduman Yarali – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2025
Digital games are among the most common reasons children use the internet, and the time children spend playing digital games is increasing day by day. This research aims to identify the characteristics of the digital games most preferred by children, while also examining their digital gaming habits. The study was conducted using a qualitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Computer Games, Handheld Devices
Chen, Yuanyuan; Huo, Yongquan – Youth & Society, 2023
This study explored the relationship between social interaction anxiety (SIA) and problematic smartphone use (PSU) among Chinese adolescents. Further, the roles of online basic psychological needs satisfaction (online BPNS), nature connectedness (NC), and related differences between urban and rural adolescents were examined. We recruited 840…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Anxiety
Gary Hunter Brannon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored the effects that social networking sites use has on the academic performance of middle school-aged students in a small district in California. It identified risks and benefits associated with social networking site use and how those affect student achievement. The study examined parental usage guidance and scrutinized…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Social Media, Web Sites, Handheld Devices
Rehana Lynda Mohamed Hussain – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This applied dissertation investigated middle school literacy educators' views about the impact of text messaging on students' spelling and writing abilities. Specifically, the researcher determined educators' views about the impact of text messages from Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Short Message Service (SMS) on middle school student…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
Cropp, Simon; Pugh, Kevin; Bergstrom, Cassendra; Kriescher, Dylan – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2022
Using transformative experience theory as a framework, we investigate the potential of utilizing mobile technology and social media to foster deep-level engagement in the form of connections between in-school and out-of-school experience. A ninth-grade Earth science teacher instructed students to take pictures with their mobile devices when they…
Descriptors: Science Education, Transformative Learning, Barriers, Social Media
Dereli, Necibe; Sahin Izmirli, Özden – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the cyberloafing behaviors of middle school students during the lesson or while studying. Within the scope of this aim, cyberloafing levels of middle school students were examined by comparing them with the web platforms they use. For this research; which was modelled with explanatory sequential mixed pattern,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Internet, Social Media, Time Management
Mathieu, Corinne S. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
As digital technologies proliferate throughout classrooms in the United States, iPads and other mobile tablets have been heralded as tools for enhanced peer collaboration. However, little research has examined exactly how students interact with and around iPads during collaborative learning tasks. This study employs multimodal interaction analysis…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Interaction, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning
Longobardi, C.; Fabris, M. A.; Prino, L. E.; Settanni, M. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2021
In Europe, 82% of minors use a social network (SN). Although SNs offer opportunities for social interaction, they also involve some risks, such as online sexual victimization (OSV). As many as 39% of teenagers are estimated to be at risk of OSV. The literature suggests that risky online behaviors, such as sexting, indiscriminate expansion of SNs,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Sexual Abuse, Victims
Hsin, Lisa B.; Mu, Nan; Selman, Robert L. – Reading Teacher, 2021
We paint a picture of preadolescent students' thinking on a topic of everyday importance: the right to use and the responsibility not to abuse digital technology in school. We analyzed the writing of students in grades 4-7 in response to an essay prompt about classroom iPad (tablet computer) use after a hypothetical cyberbullying incident,…
Descriptors: Student Rights, Student Responsibility, Technology Integration, Handheld Devices
Vale, Pamela; Graven, Mellony – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present severe challenges to the education sector more than 2 years after the first case was detected. We explore the strategies South African teachers used to support continued mathematics learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic across different stages of the response to it and across different contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, COVID-19, Pandemics
Couture-Matte, Robin – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
The present study explored negotiated interaction with Grade 6 students (age 11-12) engaged in communicative tasks supported by Club Penguin Island, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unlike previous studies on digital games, the present study assessed the use of Club Penguin Island during face-to-face interaction.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Grammar, Second Language Learning
St. Surin, Orlin; Blankenship, Rebecca J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Traditionally, face-to-face bullying has been major problem among adolescents, especially those deemed at-risk. With the rise in the use of and advancements in mobile technologies, the Internet 2.0, and smart phones, a new form of bullying has been on the rise resulting from the increase in access to technologies and by association, social media…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students
Martin, Florence; Hunt, Brittany; Wang, Chuang; Brooks, Elliot – Computers in the Schools, 2020
Digital citizenship is defined as using knowledge and skills to exhibit appropriate behavior online using digital technology. Two hundred and thirty-seven middle school students were surveyed about digital device use and perception of digital citizenship practices on cyberbullying, digital netiquette, digital footprint, digital privacy, and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Middle School Students, Technological Literacy
Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Tai, Kai-Hsin; Lin, Pei-Hsin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Remote association requires players to use their mental transformation to identify objects' relationships by activating knowledge application. A Chinese Remote Association game was designed (example question: [characters omitted], where the answer is [character omitted]) to explore learners' cognitive and affective effects, and then eighth grade…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Grade 8, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices