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An Online Parenting Program Grows Digital Parenting Skills and Parent-School Connection
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Clarkson, Anne; Zierl, Lori – Journal of Extension, 2018
The eParenting: High-Tech Kids program addresses the positive role technology can play in parenting 9- to 14-year-olds. Delivered via middle schools' parent email lists, the program comprises 56 "posts" (articles) related to positive uses of digital media/technology in parenting preteens and teens. In 2016 alone, nearly 35,000 Wisconsin…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Online Courses, Parenting Skills, Parent School Relationship
Using Online Compound Interest Tools to Improve Financial Literacy
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Hubbard, Edward; Matthews, Percival; Samek, Anya – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
The widespread use of personal computing presents the opportunity to design educational materials that can be delivered online, potentially addressing low financial literacy. The authors developed and evaluated three different educational tools focusing on interest compounding. In the authors' laboratory experiment, individuals were randomized to…
Descriptors: Money Management, Credit (Finance), Electronic Learning, Economics Education
"Gamestar Mechanic": Learning a Designer Mindset through Communicational Competence with the Language of Games
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Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills