Attention to emotion could offer insight into supporting the science-informed civic participation of young people. We drew on sociocultural views of emotion, civic participation, and science literacies to examine digital civic media about climate change produced by youth during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, investigating intersections of…

This study investigates how educators incorporate existing podcasts into their instructional plans and leverage technology to support podcast-integrated teaching practices. The participants in this qualitative study consisted of 38 in-service educators enrolled in an educational technology course. The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) served as…

This study investigated the impact of the knowledge revision components (KReC) framework on enhancing student conceptual understanding and eliminating misconceptions about matter and change in science lessons. The study used refutation texts and integrated them into the Online Advanced Organizer Concept Teaching Material (ONACOM). The research…

Reading confers significant benefits to children in both social and academic domains. However, the number of children who read for pleasure is decreasing and has been shown to drop significantly between the ages of 8 and 9. Despite the rising popularity of audiobooks and podcasts, research on children's listening to spoken stories remains in its…

Fulfilling requests for media content in support of classroom and faculty research activities is demanding for academic libraries. Libraries strive to meet requests for media while working with challenges such as intellectual property license contracts, advances in digital communication technologies and copyright issues. This article provides an…

It is important to engage students in lecture and assessment with new media while helping them build new media literacy skills. The blog and podcast are two forms of new media being widely used by organizations, businesses, and corporations that students also appreciate in the learning environment. The following unit activity asks students to work…

Most research on internet reading has identified skilled readers based on well-established theories of print reading. Nevertheless, an emerging body of work suggests that higher competency in print reading does not fully account for competency in internet reading comprehension. The authors conducted a descriptive video analysis of high school…

Approximately 4.4 million articles downloaded by Chinese researchers were identified based on downloads of 28 million articles from September 1, 2015, to February 29, 2016 posted on the Internet by J. Bohannon and A. Elbakyan. They were distributed by publishers of scientific periodicals and cities in comparison with article downloads by Russian…

Academic credentials play an immensely significant role in the career of a person and in the progress of society. The system in place currently used for the issuance, storage & sharing of academic credentials is quite inefficient in its operations, due to being paper based in large. There is also widespread fraud committed every year in terms…

The integration of digital tools in education has gained attention for enhancing engagement and interactivity, particularly in fostering environmental awareness in early childhood. Early exposure to ecological concepts can nurture environmentally conscious individuals equipped to address climate challenges. This study analyzes research trends on…

With the popularity of online one-to-one tutoring, there are emerging concerns about the quality and effectiveness of this kind of tutoring. Although there are some evaluation methods available, they are heavily relied on manual coding by experts, which is too costly. Therefore, using machine learning to predict instruction quality automatically…

Despite the common and growing use of and instruction on digital reading in schools, the ways in which reading comprehension may operate differently in paper and online environments are still underexplored. Using publicly available national datasets, we explore similarities and differences in how varied comprehension processes relate to each other…

Shared understanding of what words mean is critical for understanding and having meaningful discussion within professional circles and between the profession and the public. For over six decades, the term "reading wars" has been used in scholarship and popular media to describe debates about how to teach reading. In this article, the…

The trend of podcast and audiobook listening is on the rise, thus paving the way for a new, popular learning environment. It is crucial to deliberate on the influence of multiple-text listening comprehension. This research aimed to explore the impact of conceptual network processing on multiple-text comprehension performance from the perspective…

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture--music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms--and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically. Part One draws on qualitative research with young people, as well as close analyses of pop…