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Sabina Savadova – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
The present study introduces the ways in which parents mediate young children's digital media practices in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country. This study reveals a new parental mediation strategy -- subterfuge, which refers to parents' indirect communication about digital media restrictions with their children. With this approach, parents blame…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Computer Use, Access to Internet
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Jo B. Helgetun; Mathias Decuypere – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This article analyses the smartphone application TeacherTapp that is used to collect and disseminate information on teachers' views on education and their classroom practices. The research takes as its object of analysis the use of TeacherTapp in England and Flanders. We analyze what TeacherTapp is, how it relates to a given localized community in…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
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Scott, Fiona Louise – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
Although much parental mediation literature discusses restrictive mediation, less nuanced consideration has been given to the diverse nature of positive or instructional active mediation. The present study suggests family mediation of preschool children's digital media practices at home includes a more diverse range of positive or instructional…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Multimedia Materials, Electronic Publishing, Child Behavior
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Hawley, Sara – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
In recent sociomaterialist, materialist and post-human theorizing which foregrounds the importance of objects and bodies, ideas of consciousness and intentionality are seen as potentially tainted either with Cartesian mind-body splits or with subjectivities that are too discursively constructed. At the same time, new theories of affect as…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Postmodernism
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Scholes, Laura; Mills, Kathy A.; Wallace, Elizabeth – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
This article addresses a gap in research about primary school boys' identification as 'gamers.' Drawing on a survey of 318 Year 3 (7-8 years old) students, the research identified boys' self-reported enjoyment for gaming, their frequency using digital devices, and their self-rated digital skills. Interviews with four boys from the survey also…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Males, Identification (Psychology)
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Stirling, Eve – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
Within the range of websites and apps that are part of first-year undergraduates' digital environments, the social network site "Facebook" is perhaps the most popular and prominent. As such, the ubiquitous nature of "Facebook" in the higher education landscape has drawn much attention from scholars. Drawing on data from a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Longitudinal Studies
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Burnett, Cathy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
This article contributes to thinking about collaboration in classroom/virtual environments by considering how children (aged 10-11) engage in the process of "being together" at the interface of the physical and virtual. It argues that, if educators are to develop effective pedagogies that capitalise on opportunities for collaborative and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Simulated Environment, Cooperative Learning, Interpersonal Relationship
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Eynon, Rebecca; Geniets, Anne – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
Digital skills are an important aspect of ensuring that all young people are digitally included. Yet, there tends to be an assumption in popular discourse that young people can simply learn these skills by themselves. While experience of technologies forms an important part of the learning process, other resources (i.e., access to technology and…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Information Literacy, Internet, Influence of Technology
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Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Matamala, Carolina; Labbé, Christian; Claro, Magdalena; Cabello, Tania – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
This paper presents the results of an analysis of secondary students' computer use, aimed at understanding how different factors influence the profile of activities carried out by students with computers. The analysis is based on the data from a national study aimed at measuring students' Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Computer Use, Internet
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Iacovides, Ioanna; Aczel, James; Scanlon, Eileen; Woods, Will – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
In the last few years, digital games have become increasingly popular with both "hardcore" and "casual" audiences. At the same time, it has been argued that games can be powerful learning environments, since they are seen to encourage active and critical learning through participation in affinity groups and semiotic domains but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Questionnaires, Informal Education
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Tan, Elaine – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
The focus of this paper is a project conducted in 2011, exploring the use of "YouTube" in the classroom. The project conducted a number of focus groups for which highlighted a number of issues surrounding independent informal learning environments. The questions posed by this research are concerned with what constitutes learning in these…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Social Networks
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Underwood, Charles; Parker, Leann; Stone, Lynda – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
Digital literacies have fast become indispensable for productive engagement, competency, and citizenship in a rapidly changing world. After-school programs represent an important venue where many young people can develop a mastery of digital literacies, encompassing both the creative and responsible use of a broad range of new media. This paper…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Computer Literacy, Informal Education, School Community Programs
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Masterman, Elizabeth; Shuyska, Jane Alexen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Taught Master's students have been largely overlooked in research into learners' engagement with digital technologies. This article reports work to redress this imbalance, in which an extended email correspondence was conducted with 23 Master's students. Specifically, it investigates (1) the extent to which these students start their courses both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Electronic Mail, Computer Literacy
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Merchant, Guy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Despite the widespread popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst children and young people in compulsory education, relatively little scholarly work has explored the fundamental issues at stake. This paper makes an original contribution to the field by locating the study of this online activity within the broader terrain of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Social Environment, Research Needs
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Trew, Jennifer L.; Nelsen, Jacqueline L. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Audience response systems (ARS) are effective tools for improving learning outcomes and student engagement in large undergraduate classes. However, if students do not accept ARS and do not find them to be useful, ARS may be less effective. Predicting and improving student perceptions of ARS may help to ensure positive outcomes. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Prediction
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