Screen media occupy an increasing role in young children's play and learning environments. This paper advances the current discussion of the changing digital lives of children, with new insights of media use in the homes of Australian families (N = 406). Parents reported their child's technology ownership, engagement with traditional and new…

The data reported in this paper are part of a larger case study with children from 2 to 12 years of age, that took place over 4 years. The data reported here pertains to children in the age range 4-8 years of age in Australia. The children were from low socio-economic schools in one Australian state. The study was concerned with providing…

The rapid development and popularization of smart phones and mobile internet has created a new social lifestyle, and correspondingly prompts the transformation of network teaching from desktop computer to mobile teaching. This article has compared the pros and cons of Tsinghua Education Online and WeChat official account (WOA) in fulfilling…

As the use of technology evolves in education, an extensive range of new smart devices and digital applications is becoming available to academics. Digital magazines are an example of such technologies, which can help educators to improve the learning experience of their students inside and outside of the classroom. Digital magazines are widely…

I am inspired to write this article after coming across some publications in "The Physics Teacher" that all hit on topics of personal interest and experience. Similarly to Christensen my goal in writing this is to encourage other physics educators to take advantage of modern technology in delivering content to students and to feel…

We assessed the feasibility of ecological momentary assessment using short message service (SMS) surveying with 150 homeless youth. We found that on average, participants completed 18.8 days of texts, but 30% of youth (N = 44) had texting data on 28 or more days. The average number of texts answered per day was 8.49 (of a possible 11). Forty-three…

This paper reviews the key types of personalization in children's literacy apps to propose a taxonomy and research framework for future empirical studies Systematic content analysis was used to identify the amount and type of personalization in a hundred most popular children's literacy apps/digital books. Titles with three and more…

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the factors that influence university students' intentions to adopt mobile learning for their learning activities. A theoretical model is developed based on prior research incorporating constructs from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and…

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses typically consist of 20 hrs of training but smaller doses can be useful in stress reduction (e.g., Boettcher, et al., 2014). To isolate other mindful focus from non-directed silent time, undergraduates were assigned to mindfulness meditation (MM) or control (C) conditions. Twice a week in class, MM…

This study synthesized, systematically coded, and analyzed studies centering on teaching and learning with tablets in Kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms as evidenced by student achievement and pedagogy. The methodology for this study was a qualitative and quantitative content analysis designed to draw from the research the dominant pedagogies,…

Affective outcomes first-year college students realize when using mobile devices to learn depend on instructors' knowledge of how to implement m-learning activities in classrooms. This dilemma is a problem because instructors may implement activities that use mobile devices without sufficient knowledge concerning how device features may help or…

Augmented reality (AR) and mobile devices show promise for promoting mathematics practices and an increase in perseverance. Using an experimental pre-/posttest comparable condition group design, this study investigated (a) whether differences exist in students' number sense outcome scores based upon the type of board game they played with…

PeerEval is a mobile app created for evaluating student presentations. This paper covers the rationale for creating such an app, the features of the app, and the benefits for both teachers and students. The details and initial findings of ongoing research into the efficacy of PeerEval will be briefly discussed. [For the complete proceedings, see…

Teenagers spend an incredible amount of time on smartphones, especially on social media and online games. The purpose of this study is to investigate the gender differences and relationship between smartphone, game, social networking sites (SNS) addiction and students' grade point average (GPA) scores. High school students from grades 9-12 (N=504)…

This paper presents findings on communication preferences of college students (N=1986) related to academic and non-academic purposes. This study also examines the use of technological tools which influence student communication preferences. Findings indicate a preference for face-to-face interactions despite the heavy utilization of technological…