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Goodyear, Victoria A.; Armour, Kathleen M.; Wood, Hannah – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
Young people's engagement with digital health technologies is dominated by risk narratives. Yet, there are very limited understandings, from the perspectives of young people, about the health-related issues and opportunities generated by digital health technologies. This article presents new evidence on the types of health-related apps and devices…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Role, Information Technology, Adolescent Attitudes
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Howard-Jones, Paul; Holmes, Wayne; Demetriou, Skevi; Jones, Carol; Tanimoto, Eriko; Morgan, Owen; Perkins, David; Davies, Neil – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Many have warned against a direct "brain scan to lesson plan" approach when attempting to transfer insights from neuroscience to the classroom. Similarly, in the effective design and implementation of learning technology, a judicious interrelation of insights associated with diverse theoretical perspectives (e.g., neuroscientific,…
Descriptors: Brain, Neurology, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Tan, Lynde – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
Storyboarding is one common strategy used in teaching young people digital media. This paper argues that in adolescents' literacy practices, they engage in production on the go. The metaphor is described in this paper to put forward the argument that storyboarding can be a retrospective and redundant literacy activity in adolescents' school…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents
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Grant, Lyndsay – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Alongside other forms of social software, wikis have been heralded as supporting more collaborative and democratic teaching and learning practices. This paper explores, through a case study approach, the use of wikis to support a collaborative research project undertaken in a UK secondary school. Findings are analysed in the context of research on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
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Johnson, Martin; Nadas, Rita – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Within large scale educational assessment agencies in the UK, there has been a shift towards assessors marking digitally scanned copies rather than the original paper scripts that were traditionally used. This project uses extended essay examination scripts to consider whether the mode in which an essay is read potentially influences the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Educational Assessment, Internet, Essay Tests
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Charles, Claire – Learning, Media and Technology, 2007
In this article, I draw on Judith Butler's notion of performativity to investigate the role of digital technologies in processes of gendered subjectification (or "girling") in elite girls' education. Elite girls' schooling is a site where the potential of digital technologies in mediating student-led constructions and explorations of…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Journalism Education, Females, Gender Differences