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Esparza Puga, Danelly Susana; Aguilar, Mario Sánchez – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
YouTube is one of the most popular sources of mathematical help among young students. In this study we explore the perspectives of engineering students on the use of YouTube videos with the intention of broadening our understanding of the general characteristics of the mathematical help that students obtain through this type of videos,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Help Seeking
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Marttunen, Miika; Salminen, Timo; Utriainen, Jukka – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study investigated upper secondary school students' skills in evaluating the credibility and argumentative content of a blog text and a YouTube video. Both sources concerned child vaccination, the blog text opposing and the YouTube video supporting it. Students rated each source as credible, fairly credible or non-credible, justified their…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Thinking Skills, Secondary School Students, Adolescents
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Kammerer, Yvonne; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; Jarodzka, Halszka – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Recent technological developments related to the World Wide Web including mobile computing, social media, and online videos are shaping the way we learn. As argued in the present commentary, the majority of educational psychological research that has examined how individuals learn by searching the Web, however, has not kept up with this pace.…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Searching, Electronic Learning, Learning Processes
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Baildon, Mark; Damico, James – Social Education, 2011
The "elaborate systems of communication" that historian Christopher Lasch observed nearly three decades ago have intensified in complexity and scope. The explosion of the Internet and wireless technologies has resulted in a dizzying proliferation of texts. Teachers and students are but a keystroke or mouse click away from a limitless stream of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Graphic Arts, Electronic Publishing
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Baildon, Mark; Baildon, Rindi – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
Increasingly, young people are interacting with information from a range of complex online sources (e.g., images, videos, websites, etc.) that inform them about content that is typically part of social studies. This makes helping students learn to become skilled careful and critical readers of all texts (from textbooks, trade books, magazines, and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Information Sources, Social Studies, Foreign Countries
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Nicolaidou, Iolie; Kyza, Eleni A.; Terzian, Frederiki; Hadjichambis, Andreas; Kafouris, Dimitris – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
Assessing the credibility of evidence in complex, socio-scientific problems is of paramount importance. However, there is little discussion in the science education literature on this topic and on how students can be supported in developing such skills. In this article, we describe an instructional design framework, which we call the Credibility…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Instructional Design, Biotechnology
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Baildon, Mark; Damico, James S. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2009
As reading continues to become governed by a spatial "logic of the image" rather than strictly a temporal or linear logic of written language (Kress, 2003), and readers increasingly engage with a range of Internet-based texts, a host of challenges ensue for educators and students alike. One of the most vexing of these challenges deals with…
Descriptors: Credibility, Internet, Multimedia Materials, Video Technology