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Digital natives? New and old media and children’s outcomes
Abstract: The current generation of young children has been described as ‘digital natives’, having been born into a ubiquitous digital media environment. They are envisaged as educationally independent of the guided interaction provided by ‘digital immigrants’: parents and teachers. This article uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) to study the development […]
Christinebruce.com.au: information literacy
This website provides an overview of the research work and interests of Professor Christine Bruce, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. These research interests revolve around the perceptual worlds of information and information technology users, with a particular focus on qualitative approaches such as action research, phenomenography and phenomenology. Within […]
Diversifying Information Literacy Research: An Informed Learning Perspective
This article uses the idea of informed learning, an interpretation of information literacy that focuses on people’s information experiences rather than their skills or attributes, to analyse the character of using information to learn in diverse communities and settings, including digital, faith, indigenous and ethnic communities. While researchers of information behaviour or information seeking and […]
Face to Facebook: Social media and the learning and teaching potential of symmetrical, sychronous communication
Social networking offers teachers and learners exciting opportunities to communicate. Web 2.0 and its synchronous communications platforms provide new avenues for teachers to deliver curriculum and facilitate e-learning.
Explicating inter-modal meaning-making in media and literary texts: Towards a metalanguage of image/language relations
There appearsto be a widespread consensus among educational researchersfrom diverse discipline backgroundsthat literacy and literacy pedagogy can no longer be discussed in terms oflanguage alone, and thatreconceptualizing literacy and literacy education at least needsto incorporate the role ofimagesin an increasing range of different types of texts. It is also the case thatsyllabifor the teaching of […]
Digital Technology and Australian Teenagers: Consumption, Study and Careers
Australian teenagers have welcomed digital technologies into their daily lives with open arms. As one Year 12 girl said of her mobile phone, “I just like having it with me”. But the thirst for technology consumption does not translate into an interest in pursuing technology as a career. This desire to consume, yet not to […]
Creativity in practice: social media in higher education
Creativity, both as a professional capability and as a personal attribute, is acknowledged as an important dimension of education for a fast-changing world, relevant to future practice in the professions and for learners and teachers. New social media tools, which place creation, publication and critique in the hands of web users, have been recognised as […]
Exploring information experiences in Twitter
Social media is significantly altering the nature of human interaction and the manner in which individuals and communities connect, communicate and use information. Whilst a small but growing body of literature has begun to explore people’s social media use in everyday life from the perspectives of communication or media studies and human information behaviour, very […]
The Role of New Media and Digital Narratives in Urban Planning and Community Development
Narrative based new media innovations, such as digital stories, computer gaming, and location based scenarios can enrich community engagement in the urban planning process. Community derived stories of the past and future can thereby inform policy and modelling to preserve heritage and yield more sustainable cities. A research team comprising creatives, new media specialists, educators, […]
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