scholarly journals Digital technology for Indonesia’s young people

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (Media literacy) ◽  
pp. 20-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jee Young Lee ◽  
Didin Nuruddin Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Effective Use

Indonesia has recognized the growing demand for information technology, with the most rapid adoption of this technology being amongst its young people. Within the perspective of a balanced knowledge information society, the adoption of technology is crucial for improving social development in developing countries and is considered a particularly important tool in education. The education sector is well-placed to harness the potential of ICT for the millennial generation in these societies. Based on a survey of students enrolled in a university in Jakarta, this study attempts to identify the learning and development opportunities available through digital technology by exploring both how university students in Indonesia use this technology, and how they experience and perceive the benefits of digital learning. In particular, we examine how their access to and use of technology is associated with their digital literacy and their perceived usefulness of ICT. In general, Indonesian university students are actively engaged in a number of diverse activities online, including educational activities, which in turn result in increased online learning outcomes. A better understanding of the role of digital literacy and learning environments and effective use of technology for learning can provide important insights into education and technology use in Indonesia and similar contexts.

scholarly journals Digital Literacy and Its Use by Teacher Trainess at Secondary Level in Odisha

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-250
Author(s):  
Ramakanta Mohalik
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Teaching Learning

Digital devices and applications have been used in schools and teacher education institutes across the globe for teaching learning. All the prospective teachers must be digitally savvy to utilize it in school for teaching, assessment, management and professional development. This study intended to find out the level of digital literacy and its uses among teacher trainees at secondary level. Descriptive research method was followed for undertaking this study. Survey was conducted on sample of 170 trainees selected randomly from teacher education institutes under Utkal University, Odisha, India. Self developed questionnaire based on different aspects of digital devices and applications such as skills of trainees in digital technology, use of digital technology and applications by trainees for learning and teaching etc. was used at tool. Collected data were subjected to frequency and percentage analysis and accordingly conclusions were drawn. The study found that (i) majority of trainees can change screen brightness and contrast, minimize, maximize and move window screen, use search command to locate a file and download and install applications, (ii) more than 50% of trainees do not know learning management system, virtual worlds, podcasts and web design applications, (iii) around 70% of trainees are aware about storage of video in camera, manage junk mail and update username and password and less than 50% of trainees knew about voice typing and cyber security, (iv) majority of trainees use group email and whatsapp for academic work and  only 20% of trainees use digital devices for using PPT in class, create digital learning materials, provide feedback to students. It is suggested that teacher education institutes must be equipped with digital devices and applications useful for teaching learning and professional development. Further, teacher educator must encourage and motivate trainees by integrated ICT in regular course work and across the subjects so that trainees can develop skills of using it for teaching, learning and assessment in schools.

scholarly journals Equity and Technology Use in Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 512-519
Author(s):  
Abdullah Masmali
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
K 12

With the rapid adoption of technology in the education sector, a paradigm shift from traditional learning methods to digital learning has been experienced. This article focuses on the importance of ensuring equity in the use of technology among learners, as it relates to their right to access educational technology. While the issue of digital transformation in education is a shared responsibility among educators, this article discusses it from a comprehensive perspective. Supposedly, equity in educational technology access is an issue addressed by researchers in different school settings, including researchers in science in K-12 settings. This article describes how assessment and evaluation could make a difference among learners when it comes to enhancing their capacity to access and use technology in learning. The article concludes with some recommendations for educational technology policymakers to ensure that all students have the same opportunity in accessing educational technology in a bid to avoid a digital divide among learners.

scholarly journals Competencia mediática de jóvenes universitarios de Ecuador y Colombia

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Isidro Marín-Gutiérrez ◽  
Diana Rivera-Rogel ◽  
Damian Mendoza-Zambrano ◽  
Ligia Inés Zuluaga-Arias
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Latin American Countries

El presente estudio muestra resultados de dos países latinoamericanos: Ecuador y Colombia. El objetivo general es conocer el tratamiento que asumen los jóvenes frente a la tecnología digital y los niveles de competencia mediática. Como objetivos específicos se plantea: definir los indicadores de referencia para medir el grado de competencia mediática en los jóvenes universitarios; evaluar de manera exploratoria los niveles y el grado de competencia mediática en las muestras seleccionadas de los dos países. La metodología utilizada para evaluar el grado de competencia mediática de los jóvenes de Ecuador y Colombia es la práctica de una aproximación exploratoria de corte descriptivo. Entre los hallazgos se evidencia la utilización de navegación a internet para habilidades más técnicas y operativas que valorativas al nivel de la competencia mediática. Se detecta la necesidad de establecer procesos de alfabetización mediática sistémicos y continuos. El análisis de estos datos podría ser considerado como base para el establecimiento de políticas públicas en educación mediática. Esta temática en estos países es incipiente y se agota en líneas generalistas propuestas en documentos públicos, concerniente a los planes de educación e iniciativas particulares que en la actualidad se muestran desarticuladas.   Media Competences of Young University Students from Ecuador and Colombia The present study shows results from two Latin American countries: Ecuador and Colombia. The general objective is to find out how young people get by in the face of digital technology and levels of media competence. The specific objectives are to define the reference indicators to measure the degree of media competence of university students, and to evaluate, in an exploratory way, the levels and the degree of media competence in selected samples from the two countries. The methodology used to evaluate the degree of media competence of young people in Ecuador and Colombia is to carry out an exploratory approach of a descriptive nature. Among the findings it is worth noting the use of Internet browsing for more technical and operational skills than valuations at the level of media competence. The need to establish systematic and continuous media literacy processes is identified. The analysis of these data could be considered a basis for the establishment of public policies in media education. This issue in these countries is emerging and it is exhausted in general lines as proposed in public documents, concerning the education plans and particular initiatives that are currently fragmented.   Palabras clave: competencias mediáticas, estrategia educomunicativa, estudiantes universitarios, contextos múltiples, alfabetización digital Key words: media competences, educommunicative strategy, university students, multiple contexts, digital literacy.

scholarly journals Epilogue: Rethinking digital literacy: Media education in the age of digital capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
David Buckingham
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

Advocates of digital education have increasingly recognized the need for young people to acquire digital media literacy. However, this idea is often seen in instrumental terms, and is rarely implemented in any coherent or comprehensive way. This paper suggests that we need to move beyond a binary view of digital media as offering risks and opportunities for young people, and the narrow ideas of digital skills and internet safety to which it gives rise. The article propose that we should take a broader and more critical approach to the rise of ‘digital capitalism’, and to the ubiquity of digital media in everyday life. In this sense, the paper argue that the well-established conceptual framework and pedagogical strategies of media education can and should be extended to meet the new challenges posed by digital and social media.This article presents some reflections as an epigraph of the special issue "Digital learning: distraction or default for the future", whose final result has allowed us to group a set of critical research and analysis on the inclusion of digital technologies in educational contexts. The points of view presented in this epigraph is also developed in more detail in the book "The Media Education Manifesto" (Buckingham, 2019).

Digital Literacy and Competence in Students Attending a Faculty of Humanities

2013 ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Cartelli ◽  
Angela Di Nuzzo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
University Students ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
The University

In this paper the behaviors and tendencies in the use of digital technologies by university students are analyzed. After a short discussion of former studies and the presentation of the model for digital literacy structure and assessment in students attending compulsory school, the investigation carried out by the authors is described and the results obtained from the analysis of the university students’ answers is reported. The survey was submitted to 331 students in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cassino, Italy, and the students’ answers show a contradictory reality: on one side, digital technologies are mainly used to communicate in social networks or to play music and movies, on another side it is evident the students’ interest for the most recent aspects of the application of digital technology and for the improvement in the quality of their use.

Emerging Role of Technology in Health Education for Youth

2016 ◽  
pp. 1447-1464
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Current State ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Insight Into

The Information Technology (IT) produces significant impact on the emotional and social health of young people. It is obvious that IT is playing an increasingly important part in people's lives. This chapter reviews the current state of youth health and the role of digital landscapes in health education of youth. The chapter also provides insight into how youth, particularly youth of color, use technology to learn, communicate, and discuss various health-related issues. Specific technology needs and usage patterns are identified and success of various initiatives of use of technology for health educations is assessed. Various implications and recommendations are provided for optimizing technology use in young people health education.

scholarly journals A Tale of Two Pandemic Semesters: Examining the Longitudinal Impact of COVID-19 on Student Online Learning and Behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-153
Author(s):  
Michael C. Budden ◽  
Connie B. Budden ◽  
David C. Wyld
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Longitudinal Impact ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
The Impact

In the Spring of 2020, colleges and universities around the world joined primary and secondary education providers and businesses of all types in moving to an online, socially distant environment. Seen as necessary to stem the relentless spread of COVID-19, a deadly contagion, the move dramatically impacted lives, livelihoods and social connections. In the Spring 2020 Semester, six weeks after the State of Louisiana issued a “stay at home” order, resulting in a move to 100% distance delivery of coursework, students at a public university in the state were surveyed for this research project as to the impact of the pandemic on their use of technology, social media, and online learning. Likewise, seven months later, at the end of the Fall 2020 Semester, students at the same university were again surveyed as to the impact of the move to using online technologies for everything from learning to shopping, communications, entertainment and more. Findings related to the use of technology and the impact of digital learning among respondents were investigated and compared between the groups to determine changes in online technology use for learning and more over time during this critical period during the coronavirus pandemic. The article concludes with a look ahead and an examination of areas for future research.

scholarly journals The Effect of Technology Use on Employability Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Nuh Osman Yildiz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Levels ◽  
Sports Sciences ◽  
Predictive Effect

The study aims to examine whether the use of technology has a predictive effect on the employability perceptions of university students studying in the field of sports sciences in terms of variables of gender, department and foreign language knowledge levels. The sample of this study, that aims to examine the predictive effect of the level of technology use of students studying in the field of sports sciences on their perceptions of employability, and to examine these concepts in terms of gender, department, working in the fields of sports sciences and level of foreign language knowledge, consisted of a total of 232 participants, 101 females and 131 males. In the study the “Employability Perception Scale” (EPS) developed by Rothwell et al. (2008) and adapted into Turkish by Karlı (2016), and the Technology Use Scale (TUS) developed by Zincirkıran and Tiftik (2014) were used. According to the results of the analysis, a significant difference was found in the use of technology in terms of foreign language knowledge (p < 0.05). No significant difference was determined in terms of FAI and TSK and other variables. Finally, it was determined that the use of technology had a 22% effect on the perception of employability. As a result, it is possible to state that the employability perceptions and technology use levels of the students studying in the field of sports sciences are high, and the use of technology is a significant predictor of the employability perception.

Exploring the Use of Instructional Technology: A Survey of Academics at Two Nigerian Universities

Mousaion ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adefunke Olanike Alabi ◽  
Stephen Mutula
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Instructional Delivery ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Instructional Technologies ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Spss Software

The article reports empirical research findings on the use of instructional technology among Nigerian academics for effective instructional delivery. Using a quantitative approach, 267 questionnaires were distributed to academics from two purposively selected Nigerian universities in the South West geopolitical zone. A total of 215 questionnaires (80.5%) were returned and found useful for data analysis. The data were analysed with SPSS software to generate both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicated that various types of instructional technologies are used by academics for lecture preparation, presentation and communication. The findings also revealed that digital literacy skills and the use of instructional technology were positively related (R = 0.289). The variable digital literacy skills accounted for 7.9 per cent of the total variance in technology use (R2 = 0.079). The result indicates a positive relationship between digital literacy skills and technology. The article concludes that academic libraries, being the nerve centre of the institutions which they serve, should accept responsibility for fostering the extensive use of technology in teaching in the academia. Therefore, librarians should develop and implement initiatives that will help Nigerian academics imbibe such a culture at institutional level.

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