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Marina Gonçalves Leal; José Eduardo dos Martírios Luz; Ana Kariele da Silva Santos; Cicero Luciano Alves Costa; Paulo Felipe Ribeiro Bandeira; Cassio de Miranda Meira Jr.; Giordano Marcio Gatinho Bonuzzi – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
We aimed to investigate the impact of smartphone use during intertrial intervals within a distributed practice regime on mental fatigue, performance, and learning of a balance motor skill. One hundred and thirty-six participants were randomly divided into two groups: the smartphone use group (SMARTPHONE) and the control group (CONTROL). The…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Motor Development, Telecommunications
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Dai, Minhao – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Hookup apps, such as Tinder, have become vastly popular among college students, and hookup culture has become more normatively acceptable. The current study seeks to understand the associations of hookup app uses and outcome variables including sexual attitudes, relationship turbulences, and risky sexual behaviors. Participants and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Sexuality, Health Behavior
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Silje Anderdal Bakken – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
Textual and visual app-based communication is standard everyday interaction. I argue that, as researchers, we have to be better equipped to include various ways of interacting digitally with participants in qualitative research interviews. In this paper, I do a methodological focused analysis of app-based textual interviews (n = 98) with young…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Interaction
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Neuwirth, Lorenz S. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
Cellular phone distractions inhibit faculty delivering and students learning the curriculum by reducing student attendance and active engagement. Arguably, cellular phone usage during precious class times can be a risk factor for student attrition, but scarce solutions have been offered to address this problem in colleges. The Flipd App, a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Attention, Computer Use
Sam Ninan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of social media on the spiritual formation of Generation Z freshmen college students. Social media app usage has become prevalent within society, and Gen Z members are the first to grow up their entire lives with Internet access. Christian universities must understand the impact of social…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Freshmen, Influence of Technology, Spiritual Development
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Alejandro Gómez-Camacho; Juan de-Pablos-Pons; Pilar Colás-Bravo; Jesús Conde-Jiménez – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Instant messaging applications integrated in smartphones have favored the emergence of new digital writing systems, which are characterized by the use of specific spellings called textisms. This study analyses the relationship between the use of textisms and spelling mistakes in academic texts. The methodology applied was descriptive, based on a…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Social Media, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
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O'Neill, Barbara – Journal of Extension, 2019
It is not enough to simply post text in social media messages. Tweets with images garner three times more engagement, such as through likes, retweets, follows, clicks, and comments. Social media messages without accompanying visuals are a missed opportunity. This article describes 10 simple tools and accompanying techniques for creating attractive…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Video Technology
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Li Xiangming; Xuening Li; Jingshun Zhang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In this paper, we report a 12-week longitudinal study aiming at exploring the students' reading outcome and cognitive load with individual-based print, mobile app of Rain Classroom and collaboration-based social media of WeChat. Administered to 186 postgraduate students in a research university were the weekly reading materials and comprehension…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Reading, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Alubthane, Fawzia; Alyoussef, Ibrahim – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2021
This study applied a qualitative method to investigate Saudi students' perspectives on the effectiveness of using the WhatsApp application to support their learning and interaction in online courses. A purposive sample including eight Saudi pre-service teaching students (three males, five female) was selected from the College of Education at King…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Grov, Christian; Stief, Matthew; Westmoreland, Drew A.; MacCrate, Caitlin; Mirzayi, Chloe; Nash, Denis – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Internet-based recruitment can be effective in reaching large numbers of geographically diverse individuals. Geosocial sexual networking apps on smartphones have emerged as the modal way in which men who have sex with men (MSM) meet sex partners, and as venues for sexual health research. We report on the performance of three types of…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Social Media, Computer Oriented Programs, Telecommunications
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Zilka, Gila Cohen – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
In light of the many major changes in teenagers' lives of due to digital applications and the significant role they play in their lives, and since school is a place where they spend many hours, this study examined their perspective of how the digital environment is integrated into their school life. Participating in this mixed-method study were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Dirin, Amir; Nieminen, Marko; Alamäki, Ari – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2021
Students are often unsure of how to select the right study path at a higher educational institution. They either lack knowledge of a proposed study path or they do not manage to learn more before making their selection. Universities often apply various approaches, such as printed or online course curricula, to facilitate the selection process. Yet…
Descriptors: Social Media, Decision Making, College Students, Access to Information
Loan, Phan Thi; Hsu, Wan Ting – Metropolitan Universities, 2019
Environmental protection is an increasing concern across Taiwan. Facebook and LINE enjoy high penetration in Taiwan, are potential platforms for democratizing the research process. Citizens participate in evaluating their environment, contributing to its protection as well as having voice in decision making in the environment community-engaged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, Civil Defense, Emergency Programs
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Cardoso, Patricia; Hawk, Dianne V.; Cross, Donna – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Sixty-eight young people contributed to a Design Thinking Challenge created to elicit a better understanding of their electronic image-sharing experiences, the helpful and harmful consequences of image-sharing to adolescent mental health and safety, and promising interventions that allow young people to make more positive decisions and minimize…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Safety, Intervention
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Hope, Andrew – Education and Society, 2018
Recently there has been a growth in the surveillance of students' online activities. This has been facilitated not only by the increasing numbers of digital devices, but also through surveillance creep (Marx, 1998). Drawing upon this concept and associated ideas, including data creep, policy creep and concept creep, this paper explores the digital…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Observation, Data Collection, Computer Software
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