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Fitzpatrick, Caroline; Boers, Elroy – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Youth today spend a tremendous amount of time with digital media. The purpose of the present study was to estimate developmental associations between screen media use between the ages of 15 and 17 and corresponding changes in prosocial behavior. Participants (N = 1,509) were part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Mass Media Use, Prosocial Behavior
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Malik, Amjad; Terry, Marion – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
We initiated the study in response to school counsellors' concerns over the effects of noneducational video gaming and texting on students' school performance. The research purpose was to examine the correlations between various factors and academic performance in grade 9. The factors included social relations (e.g., friends), extra-curricular…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Counselor Attitudes
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Nease, Jake; Adams, Thomas A., II – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
BLACKOUT! is a turn-based video game that introduces undergraduate and high school students to the types of power generation available in most electricity markets. The workshop portion of BLACKOUT! introduces students to the advantages and disadvantages of power generation by coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind and solar. The students then take the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Video Games, Workshops, Power Technology
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Pastes Urbano, Lina M.; Terán, Hamil S.; Sotelo Gómez, Fabinton; Solarte, Mario F.; Sepulveda, Carlos J.; López Meza, Juan M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: The purpose is a bibliographic review that seeks to offer a clearer vision of the impact of technological tools on the implementation of the flipped classroom model. Background: This document reviews the flipped classroom and secondary education literature to analyze what technological tools are used to implement this model in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
Terry, Marion; Malik, Amjad – Online Submission, 2020
In response to concerns expressed by high school counselors, the researchers developed a quantitative Likert-scale survey to examine the relationships between academic performance (defined as school attendance and final grades) and recreational video gaming and texting. Questions about video gaming and texting were included with other questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Rural Schools, High School Students
Terry, Marion; Malik, Amjad – Online Submission, 2018
In an attempt to investigate concerns expressed by high school counselors, the researchers developed a quantitative Likert-scale survey to assess the relationship between recreational video gaming and academic performance (defined as school attendance and final grades) in grade 9. Questions about video gaming appeared with other questions about…
Descriptors: Video Games, Likert Scales, Grades (Scholastic), Attendance
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Jenson, Jennifer; Droumeva, Milena – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2016
While advances in game-based learning are already transforming educative practices globally, with tech giants like Microsoft, Apple and Google taking notice and investing in educational game initiatives, there is a concurrent and critically important development that focuses on "game construction" pedagogy as a vehicle for enhancing…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Computation, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
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McClay, Jill Kedersha; Mackey, Margaret; Carbonaro, Mike; Szafron, Duane; Schaeffer, Jonathan – E-Learning, 2007
This article reports on a study of 23 tenth-grade students who created fiction in digital game and written formats. The researchers observed them at work, analysed their stories in both formats, and interviewed selected students to learn what affordances and constraints they demonstrate and/or articulate in such authoring. The students used…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Metacognition, Computer Uses in Education, Fiction