Cyber threats to children and youth with intellectual disabilities

The article provides the justification for the need to analyze the area of 'new media' with regard to the use of digital tools by children and youth with intellectual disabilities. It presents the genesis of the notion of cyberspace as well as the nature of possible consequences associated with inappropriate use of digital technologies. The paper then discusses the categories of negative effects related to cyberspace and the use of new technologies by children and youth with intellectual disabilities. The increasing digitization has influenced the evolution of cyberbullying. There is no highly effective method or solution available to protect children and youth with intellectual disabilities against cyber crimes. Therefore, the idea of reasonable usage of 'new media' seems to be one of the most important tasks for educators, teachers, and parents of children and youth with intellectual disabilities in the 21st century.

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Reconceptualising Scaffolding for New Media Contexts

Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch015 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 243-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nicola Yelland ◽

Jennifer Masters

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Student Learning ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Sports Drink ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Learning Scenarios ◽

Specific Learning

This chapter will discuss the ways in teachers can support their student’s learning in new media contexts with the use of effective scaffolding techniques. The authors present two learning scenarios of children to illustrate the ways in which scaffolding pedagogies are deployed in order to enhance learning opportunities that incorporate the use of new media. In Scenario One, the Year 2 children (approximately 7 years) use digital technologies to communicate their ideas and investigations through stop-motion animation. In Scenario Two, the Year 1 children (approximately 6 years) edit digital video to create an advertisement for a new sports drink. This work is important since the use of computers and other new technologies in schools remains peripheral and is frequently an afterthought to be aligned with specific curriculum objectives and mandated learning outcomes. An important question for educators is how can we ensure and describe the learning that takes place in contexts that incorporate new media. Implicit in this is that teachers and students will guide and support each other in order to complete tasks that exemplify specific learning outcomes. Our findings suggest that the main challenges and issues for teachers with regard to new media are centered on how they might incorporate them into their pedagogical repertoire and of finding effective ways to support student learning.

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Creating Music with Technology

This Too is Music ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190884956.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 171-186

Author(s):

Rena Upitis

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

The Body ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Digital Music ◽

Music Learning ◽

The Future ◽

Retrospective Examination

This chapter advances several ideas for using digital technologies to enable children to improvise and compose, while also cautioning that the use of these technologies should not replace the primacy of learning music through the body. The chapter opens with a retrospective examination of the digital tools that were used in a particular school thirty years ago, with an emphasis on the elements that have endured over the ensuing decades. This allows for a broad discussion about the future of digital music tools in creative musicianship. The chapter closes with a discussion of “slow music”—music learning that is approached in a reflective, mindful way, combining old and local ideas with new technologies for recording, listening, performing, and creating.

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THE ROLE OF NEW MEDIA IN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ACQUISITION OF COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL SKILLS. AN INTRODUCTION TO SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Humanitas w Sosnowcu. Pedagogika ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.2302 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 193-204

Author(s):

Żanetta Kaczmarek

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Medical Students ◽

New Media ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Research Areas ◽

New Research ◽

Education Process

Education process in a college has been transforming as a result of new technologies implementation. It is the outcome of digital technologies which by impacting our everyday life, also affect the education process. The so-called centers of medical education functioning in educational systems are new research areas for pedagogues – education technologists – in the aspect of their functioning and securing the effectiveness of teaching. Didactic measurement in this regard is extremely difficult and all attempts need description and standardization

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Social Talent Scouting: A New Opportunity for the Identification of Football Players?

Physical Culture and Sport Studies and Research ◽

10.1515/pcssr-2016-0012 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 28-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elena Radicchi ◽

Michele Mozzachiodi

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Football Players ◽

Supply Side ◽

Demand Side ◽

Qualitative Exploration

AbstractThis paper investigates the diffusion of digital technologies within the football talent scouting process. A qualitative exploration based on open discussions and unstructured interviews with professionals involved in the football system (coaches, scouts, players’ agents, etc.) provides insights about how new technologies are used for recruiting athletes. The findings, which are mainly in the context of Italian football, indicate a cultural and generational gap in the use of new digital tools that creates a mismatch between young promising athletes (demand side) and “senior” team professionals (supply side).

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Using Big Data in Social Science - Perspectives and Limitations

Artificial Societies ◽

10.18254/s207751800015213-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 0

Author(s):

Oleg Gurov

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Social Processes ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Modern World ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

The Public ◽

Big Data Technologies ◽

Ethical Norms

The article provides an overview of the development of big data technologies in terms of the potential of their use in the study of social processes. The development of these technologies makes it necessary to transform the usual methods of scientific research and revise the models of social reality. To meet the demands of the modern world, the researcher needs to adopt digital tools. However, the relevance of the stated topic is not limited solely to the possibilities, since the use of digital technologies in the study of society is associated with many risks that can lead to negative consequences. Speaking about the sphere of big data, it is important to remember that one of the main risks is the violation of the rights and freedoms of other people, therefore, a researcher of social processes must understand and assess the consequences of his actions, guided, first of all, by ethical norms that allow the use of new technologies for the public. the benefits and suppression of the threats of a technogenic society. The authors propose to consider the complex of risks associated with the use of big data technologies, and also present their own approach to their systematization and classification.

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Telemedicine Treatment and Care for Patients with Intellectual Disability

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18041746 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 1746

Author(s):

Krzysztof Krysta ◽

Monika Romańczyk ◽

Albert Diefenbacher ◽

Marek Krzystanek

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Behavioral Interventions ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Medical Data ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Telemedicine System ◽

Potential Risks ◽

People With Intellectual Disabilities

In recent years, telemedicine has been developing very dynamically. The development of new technologies allows their use in the treatment of dermatological, cardiological, endocrine and other diseases. However, there are few reports on the use of digital technologies in the mental health care of people with intellectual disabilities. Intellectual disability is a disease that affects a large number of people. Patients suffering from intellectual disability encounter barriers that make it difficult for them to fully use telemedicine, however, these barriers can be overcome with appropriate support and adaptation. A review of the literature on telemedicine solutions in the care of people with intellectual disabilities indicates that the applications support the communication of these people with the doctor, enable simple behavioral interventions, stimulate cooperation in treatment, provide simple medical education as well as record medical data for the doctor. The authors present the potential risks related to the use of telemedicine solutions for people with intellectual disabilities as well as the project of creating a new, multi-module telemedicine system.

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Children and Computers

Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch010 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 75-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paolo Ferri

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Basic Assumption ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Early Years ◽

Cultural Meanings ◽

Adequate Understanding ◽

Teachers And Parents ◽

The Way

The basic assumption of our research is that in order for teachers and parents to promote an effective and critical use of new technologies in the early years (especially in preschools) they need to gain a deeper understanding of the way in which children spontaneously approach these technologies together with an improved awareness of adults’ representations and ideas (Ferri & Mantovani, 2006). Too often computers and digital technologies are introduced in early childhood contexts without adequate understanding of their cultural meanings, cognitive, and social potentials or constraints, which is particularly true in preschool settings as shown by Varisco (2002) and Albanense, Migliorini, and Pietrocola (2000).

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Culture in new media times

Informatologia ◽

10.32914/i.51.3-4.8 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (3-4) ◽

pp. 200-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Borivoje Baltezarević ◽

Radoslav Baltezarević ◽

Vesna Baltezarević

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

New Media ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Social Relationships ◽

New Technologies ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

Migration Process ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Intrapersonal Communication ◽

Virtual Spaces

New media is focusing on new technologies and digitizing their content which has both good and bad effects, that individuals and society as a whole, are exposed to. Digitizing intrapersonal communication brings about simultaneous digatilization of culture and society. Technology, besides a plethora of its undoubtedly good features, also demonstrates the negative effects underpinned by the ‘migration process’ of individuals to virtual spaces, that are contributing to the transformation of existing culture into virtual culture. Culture in transition to the digital age is transformed into a culture of forgetting and is faced with the interruption of continuity of the role an individual plays in preserving of the existing traditional cultural values. The aim of this paper is to present the views of respondents who are using virtual social networks on the culture that is being created in a virtual environment and their attitudes about whether virtual networking leads to the changes in their relation to traditional culture and social relationships in the real world

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Surveilling Indigenous Communities in a Time of Pandemic

Surveillance & Society ◽

10.24908/ss.v18i3.14259 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 422-425

Author(s):

Simon Lambert ◽

Robert Henry

Keyword(s):

Health Outcomes ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

New Technologies ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Indigenous Resistance

Ongoing racism continues to violently impact on the cultures, lands, and bodies of Indigenous Peoples. While many health researchers are meeting the ethical challenges in working with Indigenous communities, this commentary draws attention to the often-uncritical adaption or use of digital tools. Many digital technologies, deliberately or accidently, lend themselves to overt or covert surveillance of communities. Indigenous resistance to surveillance must be understood in the context of colonization, and reassurances must be provided if the benefits of new technologies are to be fully realized for better Indigenous health outcomes.

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