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Using technology to encourage student engagement with feedback: a literature review

Posted on 05 May 2012 with 0 comments

This article presents a review of the literature over the past 10 years into the use of technological interventions that tutors might use to encourage students to engage with and action the feedback that they receive on their assessment tasks. The authors hypothesise that technology has the potential to enhance student engagement with feedback.

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Marking extended essays on screen: exploring the link between marking processes and comprehension

Posted on 05 May 2012 with 0 comments

This study gathers data from 12 experienced examiners working within a large UK-based awarding body to investigate how mode influences their navigation and annotation behaviours when marking extended essays on paper and on screen.

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Virtual violence II: progress and challenges in the fight against cyberbullying

Posted on 05 May 2012 with 0 comments

This research builds on the first Virtual Violence study conducted in 2009 and adds valuable depth to our understanding of cyberbullying. The latest findings from Beatbullying reveal that 28% of 11-to-16-year-olds have been deliberately targeted, threatened or humiliated by an individual or group through the use of mobile phones or the internet.

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Technology, media and telecommunications predictions 2012

Posted on 05 May 2012 with 0 comments

This annual publication presents Deloitte’s view of key developments over the next 12-18 months that are likely to have significant medium - to long-term impacts for companies in technology, media and telecommunications and other industries.

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Designing for learning: online social networks as a classroom environment

Posted on 04 May 2012 with 0 comments

This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students’ interactions when using online social media as a learning environment.

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Innovation teaching and learning research 2011: findings and implications

Posted on 04 May 2012 with 0 comments

This report describes results from the second year (2010-11) of Innovation Teaching and Learning Research. The study of teaching and learning ecosystems was carried out in seven countries: Australia, England, Finland, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Senegal.

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Risks and safety for Australian children on the internet: full findings from the au kids online survey of 9-16 year olds and their parents

Posted on 04 May 2012 with 0 comments

This report presents initial findings from an Australian survey of children and their parents designed to provide a unique insight into the balance of opportunities and risks experienced by these children as a result of their internet use.

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Zero to eight: children’s media use in America

Posted on 02 May 2012 with 0 comments

The purpose of this study is to provide publicly accessible, reliable data about media use among children ages 0 to 8, to help inform the efforts of all of those who are working to improve children’s lives.

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Searching where for what: a comparison of use of the library catalogue

Posted on 02 May 2012 with 0 comments

There is a widespread concern amongst librarians that Google Search and Wikipedia are making library reference services and even library collections redundant. There is however, little research on the types of subjects that people look up on Google, Wikipedia and library catalogues.

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Paradox, promise and public pedagogy: implications of the Federal Government’s Digital Education Revolution

Posted on 02 May 2012 with 0 comments

This paper focuses on the confluence between globalised economic process, the Digital Education Revolution, and the discourse of the digital native; and describes the way in which students’ use of digital technologies is identity forming.

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Using technology to encourage student engagement with feedback: a literature review

Marking extended essays on screen: exploring the link between marking processes and comprehension

Virtual violence II: progress and challenges in the fight against cyberbullying

Technology, media and telecommunications predictions 2012

Designing for learning: online social networks as a classroom environment

Innovation teaching and learning research 2011: findings and implications

Risks and safety for Australian children on the internet: full findings from the au kids online survey of 9-16 year olds and their parents

Zero to eight: children’s media use in America

Searching where for what: a comparison of use of the library catalogue

Paradox, promise and public pedagogy: implications of the Federal Government’s Digital Education Revolution

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