Improving Children’s E-Safety Skills through an Interactive Learning Environment: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Nicolaidou, Iolie; Venizelou, Agnes

doi:10.3390/mti4020010

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“…Older students potentially have stronger views on events and venues represented in the digital tour, which are difficult to change as a result of a short interaction with the tool. In contrast, the literature supports that young children's attitudes can be positively affected even through relatively short term digital interventions at the primary education level [30], [31]. Therefore, there is support, both from the literature and from the present study's findings, for targeting young children in future, large-scale interventions attempting to resolve conflictual pasts and lead to social change through the use of virtual tours.…”

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confidence: 41%

Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Nicolaidou

Zupančič²,

Fiedler³

et al. 2022

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used for visiting historic places. Research on VR experiences in dark tourism (that focuses on mortality) focuses almost exclusively on adults. No studies were found that used virtual tours to engage children with their own country’s conflicts. The present study addresses this gap by designing and developing virtual tours in four cities of Europe with a troubled past. Virtual tours engage children and youth in historical conflicts using multi-perspective storytelling. The aim of this pre-test post-test comparative case study is to examine the change on students’ perceptions of their country’s troubled past after their interaction with a virtual tour of their capital. A secondary aim is to document students’ evaluation of the virtual tour. A questionnaire examining students’ perceptions was completed before and after students’ individual interaction with a virtual tour. Participants included 360 students (212 from Cyprus, 42 from Germany, 63 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 44 from Kosovo). Findings indicate a statistically significant positive change in perceptions of troubled pasts for primary/secondary students from Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Germany. Preliminary results are promising and indicate the effectiveness of virtual tours as tools that can have an effect on students’ perceptions of troubled pasts, particularly for children rather than young adults. Students’ evaluation of the virtual tours was positive, irrespectively of participants’ age, indicating high acceptability.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 41%

Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Nicolaidou

Zupančič²,

Fiedler³

et al. 2022

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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“…The fact that a quasi-experimental design was used, in which the control group did not participate in an innovative intervention and did not receive any instruction, threatened the study's internal validity; a limitation commonly reported in quasi-experiments in the social sciences [43][44][45]. As previously mentioned, the data collected by control group participants might have been affected by factors such as "secondary" treatment infusion [39] and positive self-presentation [40].…”

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confidence: 99%

Affecting Young Children’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors for Ultraviolet Radiation Protection through the Internet of Things: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Theodosi

Nicolaidou

2021

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Prolonged exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is linked to skin cancer. Children are more vulnerable to UV harmful effects compared to adults. Children’s active involvement in using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to collect and analyze real-time UV radiation data is suggested to increase their awareness of UV protection. This quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control group study implemented light sensors in a STEM inquiry-based learning environment focusing on UV radiation and protection in primary education. This exploratory, small-scale study investigated the effect of a STEM environment implementing IoT devices on 6th graders’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors about UV radiation and protection. Participants were 31 primary school students. Experimental group participants (n = 15) attended four eighty-minute inquiry-based lessons on UV radiation and protection and used sensors to measure and analyze UV radiation in their school. Data sources included questionnaires on UV knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors administered pre- and post-intervention. Statistically significant learning gains were found only for the experimental group (t14 = −3.64, p = 0.003). A statistically significant positive behavioral change was reported for experimental group participants six weeks post-intervention. The study adds empirical evidence suggesting the value of real-time data-driven approaches implementing IoT devices to positively influence students’ knowledge and behaviors related to socio-scientific problems affecting their health.

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“…Previous research on preventing, addressing, and mitigating bullying in children's lives includes a wide range of technologies and apps, designed by adults: from online lessons to various platforms (Rubin-Vaughan et al, 2011;Timmons-Mitchell et al, 2016;Sánchez and Chamucero, 2017;Nicolaidou and Venizelou, 2020) chatbots (Young Oh et al, 2020), virtual storytelling apps (Hall et al, 2006(Hall et al, , 2009Enz et al, 2008;Watson et al, 2010;Vannini et al, 2011), and games (Raminhos et al, 2015;Calvo-Morata et al, 2019;Kolić-Vehovec et al, 2020;Paracha et al, 2020). Online learning applications are a popular mechanism to raise awareness, educate, and impart skills to children on how to manage their everyday experiences.…”

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We learned we can do something to reduce bullying: Children designing anti-bullying mobile apps to empower their peers

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Mobile applications have thoroughly pervaded the lives of today's children, who live and learn through and with them. However, limited research has been conducted on children designing such apps and not only using those designed by adults. Inviting children to design such apps is the focus of our study. Moreover, in contemporary society, it is emphasized that children should be empowered to take civic action and engage in making the world a better place. In the literature, however, less emphasis has been placed on how children can be invited to do so through the means of digital technology, particularly mobile application design. In this study, 13–15-year-old children are invited to take civic action to address the serious societal problem of bullying through the design of mobile apps. We discussed the design process and analyzed the applications the children designed from the viewpoint of how they aim to tackle bullying. We examined how their app designs aim at empowering other children in the context of bullying, and thus considered what kinds of opportunities emerge for children to learn skills related to the prevention or management of bullying in the apps they have designed. We showed that the children's app designs informed us of the seriousness of bullying in children's lives and that they advocate for the empowerment of other children in different ways. Hence, we have increased our understanding of how smart, interactive technologies designed by children address the learning and empowerment of other children, i.e., application users. We also studied the children's learning from both their and their teachers' perspectives. This study showcases an alternative way educators can integrate digital technologies and apps in school settings to educate children on important societal matters and digital technology.

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Improving Children’s E-Safety Skills through an Interactive Learning Environment: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Affecting Young Children’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors for Ultraviolet Radiation Protection through the Internet of Things: A Quasi-Experimental Study

We learned we can do something to reduce bullying: Children designing anti-bullying mobile apps to empower their peers

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