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Wen Cheng; Pham Ngoc Thien Nguyen; Nhan Duc Nguyen – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aimed to explore the effects of active social network usage (ASNU) and passive social network usage (PSNU) on academic performance. Using a survey sample of 621 high school students in Taiwan, the results showed that PSNU did not associate with learning results, whereas ASNU may have its function on students' learning. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Social Media
Büsra Koçyigit; Fulya Türk – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by increased stress and vulnerability to mental health issues. Meaningful peer relationships are known to protect against these challenges, but the rise of technology and social media use has impacted how adolescents form connections. Research indicates that adolescents' preference for social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Social Isolation, Social Media
Lisette DeSouza; Linda Charmaraman; Emily Vargas; Georgia Hall – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
Positive youth development has been extensively documented in contexts such as the family, school, and afterschool. Emerging theory and research indicate that digital contexts such as social media may also be venues through which young people develop skills and attributes associated with the 5 Cs model of positive youth development and thriving.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Friendship, Individual Development, Middle School Students
Salazar, Gilberto Mejía – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2019
The following research work aims to publicize the use and importance that the student gives to social networks during their school education. Likewise, the work was carried out using the simple random sampling type, and it is known that the size of the universe to be studied is made up of 200 students, belonging to the Preparatory Academic Unit…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Web 2.0 Technologies, Internet
Olitsky, Stacy; Becker, Elizabeth A.; Jayo, Ignacio; Vinogradov, Philip; Montcalmo, Joseph – Research in Science Education, 2020
This study explores the implications of a redesign of a college course that entailed a new partnership between a college neuroscience classroom and a high school. In this course, the college students engaged in original research projects which included conducting brain surgery and behavioural tests on rats. They used digital storytelling and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, High Schools, Story Telling, Computer Uses in Education
Aslan, Alper; Karakus Yilmaz, Türkan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The purpose of this study is to reveal the changes that occurred between 2010 and 2015 in the Internet activities performed, Internet use skills, online risks, and coping strategies related to such risks of children between the ages of nine and 16 in Turkey as well as the impact of the contextual issues on such changes. An explanatory design using…
Descriptors: Internet, Child Safety, Children, Adolescents
Aytaç, Tufan; Erdem, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2019
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is rapidly spreading among high school students. These technologies provide the students to gain learning experiences and also involve many dangers such as addiction, loneliness and stress. The aim of this study is to examine awareness levels of different types of high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Security, Learning Experience, Information Technology
Beech, Jason; Artopoulos, Alejandro – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
This article argues that certain established vocabularies that are used to interpret the circulation of educational discourse and its transformation in different settings have significant limitations to capture the complexity inherent to new geographies of power/knowledge in education and that, consequently, we need to develop new concepts to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Social Theories, Social Networks, Comparative Education
Carlson, Shawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe and understand how teachers describe the changes in their practices as a result of ten years participation in a one-to-one environment. This research study focuses on one successful middle school's adoption of laptops to support teaching and learning. A qualitative study using interviews of key…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Middle Schools
Homan, Elizabeth C. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2014
Today's teachers are faced with a number of options when it comes to sharing knowledge about their professions. In the digital age, teachers use social media, online professional networks, email listservs, and blogging connections to share knowledge and resources. Here, I describe how one teacher engages with social media to develop networks that…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Computer Use, Secondary School Teachers
Rodríguez-Hoyos, Carlos; Haya Salmón, Ignacio; Fernández-Díaz, Elia – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper presents, for further discussion, a review of the scientific literature produced internationally on the use of Social Network Sites (SNS) in different levels of education and settings. A total of 62 articles published in international scientific journals with peer review have been analysed. The main objective of this paper is to discuss…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Networks, Web Sites, Scientific Research
Ladbrook, Judine – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Preservice teachers of secondary English need sustained and confident experiences of the pedagogical affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs), to overcome the constraints perceived by their secondary teaching colleagues. They also need to rapidly develop an extensive knowledge of adolescent fiction titles for progressing…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Reading
Kidd, Terry T.; Carpenter, B. Stephen, II – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2014
This paper serves as an exploration into the landscape of social media use in educational research as it relates to urban youth in the United States. Initially, a social and learning context is provided that situates the implications social media may have for urban youth within formal and informal educational spaces. The paper offers a discussion…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Urban Youth, Informal Education, Conventional Instruction
Andersson, Annika; Räisänen, Kalle – Computers in the Schools, 2014
This article focuses on class blogs and presents results from 1:1 schools in Sweden. While Swedish schools are increasingly using Web 2.0 technologies (e.g., wikis and blogs), most of this use is still at an experimental stage. To further the understanding of how blogs are and can be used, we compare class blogs used in practice with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Cooperation
Wespieser, Karen – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2015
This report looks at the online activities of London's young people. The report highlights that children and young people use technology to have fun, study and communicate with others. Most children and young people have positive experiences online. On the whole they are sensible online and do not put themselves "at risk". However, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Children, Youth