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The Relationship between the eHealth Literacy and Computer Skills of University Students
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Tian, Hua; Chen, Jie – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The importance of university students' electronic health (eHealth) literacy has been established in the literature, yet the association with computer skills is absent. In this study, a total of 5,672 university students were recruited from Xinyang University. Data were collected from an online questionnaire, including the Chinese eHealth Literacy…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Health Education, Multiple Literacies, Computer Literacy
Does Teacher's Data Literacy and Digital Teaching Competence Influence Empowering Students in the Classroom? Evidence from China
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Lin, Ruyi; Yang, Junfeng; Jiang, Feng; Li, Jiaping – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
With the digital transformation of education, data and digital technologies are regarded as the driving forces for teaching innovation. Teachers' data literacy and digital teaching competence are becoming increasingly important for empowering students' digital capacity, ethically technology usage, and collaboration or communication skills in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Data, Multiple Literacies, Computer Literacy
#Digital Parents: Intergenerational Learning through a Digital Literacy Workshop
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Hébert, Cristyne; Thumlert, Kurt; Jenson, Jennifer – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
In this article, we present findings of a research study centered around a 10-week digital production workshop developed specifically for families in an urban school board, a population rich with culturally diverse immigrant families and English language learners (ELLs). The aim of this research was to support parents/guardians in an urban…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Workshops, Immigrants, English Language Learners
Introducing E-Learning in a South African Higher Education Institution: Challenges Arising from an Intervention and Possible Responses
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Bharuthram, Sharita; Kies, Carolynn – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This article draws on research conducted at a tertiary institution in South Africa as part of the redesigning of an English for Educational Development (EED) course to include an e-learning online discussion component. The subject material used was based on HIV/AIDS topics that students had to debate within an online discussion forum. Framed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Intervention, Barriers
Pursuing Digital Literacy in Compulsory Education. New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies. Volume 43
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Stergioulas, Lampros K., Ed.; Drenoyianni, Helen, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
Over the last two decades, advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed to the ideological construct of an emerging "knowledge society"--one which places a high value on knowledge and education and promises a better future for humanity. However, the severe economic--and by extension, social and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Media Literacy, Information Literacy
Living in the iWorld: Two Literacy Researchers Reflect on the Changing Texts and Literacy Practices of Childhood
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O'Mara, Joanne; Laidlaw, Linda – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
In this article we document observations of our own young children's usage of technology in their "out-of-school" worlds. How might these technologies and practices be changing the understandings and usage of texts and literacies of the children who enter into classroom spaces? What transformative possibilities might these home technology…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Expertise, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies
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Thomas, Michael, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term "digital native" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital technologies and the internet are a normal part of everyday life. Young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Educational Change, Educational Technology