This paper is part of the UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning. The Series seeks to better understand how mobile technologies can be used to improve educational access, equity and quality around the world. It comprises fourteen individual papers that will be published throughout 2012. The Series is divided into two broad subsets: six […]
Critical Thinking and Technology
How do we get students to think critically? How do we get them to take an interest in our disciplines, to move beyond a concern with “just making the grade” or merely preparing for some standardized test that guards the gates to graduate and professional schools? How do we arouse their curiosity? How can we […]
UNESCO policy guidelines for mobile learning
UNESCO believes that mobile technologies can expand and enrich educational opportunities for learners in diverse settings. Today, a growing body of evidence suggests that ubiquitous mobile devices – especially mobile phones and, more recently, tablet computers – are being used by learners and educators around the world to access information, streamline administration and facilitate learning […]
INTERNEWS Media Support NGO
General Information Civil society cannot exist apart from independent and strong media. Internews Media Support NGO’s activities proceed from this belief. Internews promotes freedom of expression and open media. Towards this end, Internews organizes training courses for established and emerging journalists, promotes media literacy, advocates for improved media legislation and protects journalists’ rights. The NGO […]
Journalism Research and Education section-IAMCR (conference 2013)
Journalism Research & Education section from IAMCR’s program Conference June 26, 2013 The Journalism Research & Education section from IAMCR principal task is to promote the conduct and dissemination of research into all facets of journalism and journalism education. This ranges from journalism theories to journalism practice as it shapes and is shaped by emerging […]
Mobiles for Literacy (Mobile Learning Week 2013 Presentations)
UNESCO second annual Mobile Learning Week (MLW 2013), which took place at UNESCO Headquarters from 18 to 22 February 2013. MLW endeavored to engage specific questions tied to the Education for All goals such as how mobile technologies can support literacy development, teachers and their professional development and gender equality in education. These questions were […]
Youth’s Usage of Leisure Time with Video Games and Social Networks
The aim of this article is to understand the behaviour of Secondary Education students during their leisure time when using some different virtual spaces. We report a study carried out in a Community Centre offering training and leisure services for youngsters. Due to the large number of technological activities offered, this study paves the way […]
The «i-Generation» and its Interaction in Social Networks. An Analysis of Coca-Cola on Tuenti
Teenagers and young adults are increasingly using social networks as a means to interact and participate in constructing a multiple speech. Companies take direct options with followers in networks and use these virtual structures to approach their target. The purpose of this paper is to study, using empirical and observational methodology, how to build «Coca-Cola» […]
Interactive Youth and Civic Cultures: The Educational, Mediatic and Political Meaning of the 15M
This contribution is justified by the necessity of analyzing the participative content that the interactive youth transmitted in the use of ICTs and social networks in the origin of the social movement of the Spanish Revolution. Our objectives have been focused on proving how young people feel, live and experience the democratic citizenship by means […]
Everyday Racism and «My Tram Experience»: Emotion, Civic Performance and Learning on YouTube
Does the public expression and performance of shock, distress, anger, frustration and ideological disapproval of particular sorts of politics constitute a form of collective political expression from which individuals can learn about being citizens? When it comes to the expression of feelings of racial and other types of prejudice, has political correctness led to a […]
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