Examination of cyberloafing studies in education: A content analysis

Mobile technologies are useful. However, several mobile technologies also have disadvantages for students besides their advantages. Cyberloafing is one of these critical situations that the students could experience. Several studies on cyberloafing were conducted worldwide. The present study aimed to analyse these studies based on variable frequency, workgroups, data collection instruments, research methods and distribution of studies among countries. This study aimed to evaluate the results of the publications found in the Google Scholar, Web of Science, Science Direct, Scopus, ProQuest,...

Identity formation in educational settings - A critical focus for education in the 21st century - Kaplan & Flum 2012.pdf

A Conceptual Framework and Content Model for Next Generation Presentation Solutions

Mainstream presentation tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint were originally built to mimic physical media like photographic slides and still exhibit the same characteristics. However, the state of the art in presentation tools shows that more recent solutions start to go beyond the classic presentation paradigms. For instance, presentations are becoming increasingly non-linear, content is quickly evolving beyond simple text and images and the way we author our presentations is becoming more collaborative. Nevertheless, existing presentation content models are often based on assumptions that...

2019: Theoretical Foundations to Design Learner-Generated Digital Media (LGDM) Assessment Rubrics

Learner-Generated Digital Media (LGDM) assignments empower students to become co-creator of knowledge rather than passive consumers of content. The Internet explosion, the affordability of digital technologies and devices such as a smartphone, tablets, and action cameras, created the opportunity to use digital media in the classroom. Most of the research in the field of LGDM assignments focused on learning course content and neglected the importance of effective communication in the digital space. Outside of the creative disciplines, educators do not provide student training on how to...

THE EFFECT OF WATCHING ENGLISH MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES ON ESP STUDENTS’ CONTENT AND VOCABULARY COMPREHENSION A STUDY CONDUCTED AT AN INDONESIA POLYTECHNIC ENGINEERING.

This research is focusing on the impact of English movies with subtitles on content comprehension of English movies and vocabulary comprehension. With fifty-six (56) students of Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya was selected randomly of English subject. Activate the quasi-experimental study, a movie with tittle Transcendence was selected based on the ESP content and language level difficulty. With two intact groups, they were group A and group B. They watched the same movie, class A watched it with English subtitles and class B without subtitles. After watching the movie, the...

Self-Regulated Learning & Social Network Interaction.pdf

Increase of diversified online learners, educators need to understand how learners interact; therefore, they can provide more personalized instructions to engage learners in active social interaction. Digital learning vision suggests that emerging practices signal the need for more personal, social, and participatory approaches that support learners in becoming active users and co-creators of learning resources to control learning processes (Leone, 2013). Online learning from socio-constructivism and connectivism focuses on engaging learners in active social network interaction. Frequently,...

Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Primary School Teachers

In this study, researchers tried to find out the role of various factors like gender, caste, marital status, post held, type of school, area of school, education qualification and training before job in job satisfaction of primary school teachers. For this purpose 400 primary school teachers were selected. Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Scale (TJSS) was used to collect the data. Results showed that there is a significant relationship between caste category, post hold by teacher, type of school, area of school and job satisfaction of primary school teachers. The results of the regression...

Storybird: Engaging Learners in Building Simple Sentences

Major changes in technology have had an influence on education. In schools located on the outskirts of town in remote areas, technological advances are often ignored and the traditional way of teaching writing is considered the best option. Thus, pupils are hindered from maximizing their learning potential and creativity during writing activities. By incorporating Storybird, an engaging digital story writing website, it allows pupils to focus on the content of their writing aided by fun illustrations. This research aims to enhance pupils’ writing skill and engagement in building simple...

Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education: Introducing and Intra-Active Pedagogy

The article had an interesting viewpoint regarding the material objects as well as their role within the performative intra-activity process. The focus is the usage of sticks, water, clay and other objects in order to produce a different outcome in the educational process in a sense that the effect will yield richer educational results. The author highlights the importance of the pedagogical documentation as a tool of learning and transformation that impacts different learning theories. According to her, the pedagogical documentation can be described as the gadget that will produce several...