Teacher Research on Literacy: Turning Around to Students and Technology

Walsh, Christopher S.; Kamler, Barbara

doi:10.1002/9781118323342.ch36

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“…(5) Although there are divergences among experts about the good or bad, liberating or oppressive effects of online games on people, with special emphasis on children and young people, some of them are positive about the use of computer-aided writing and computer games. Moreover, some consider games as a good resource for children and young people, enabling them to play with different identities and to challenge expectations [97][98][99][100]. Thus, we can consider it to be positive that the online space provides access to pleasures only associated with online games, which is the most rated item among Slovak high school students in the last of our research areas.…”

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Social Media and Students’ Wellbeing: An Empirical Analysis during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Various forms of social media (SM) appear to be very popular among young people because they provide information and entertainment, including a wide range of web technologies such as blogs, wikis, online social networks, and virtual networks. SM plays a huge role in the lives of children and teenagers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the computer becomes not only a means of entertainment or leisure, but also a necessary and everyday means of education and communication with other people. Thus, COVID-19 has brought a radical change, not only in the daily schedule and leisure time of pupils and students, but also in the perception of the procedures used by this specific group in the online space. Through our own research, using structured interviews and a questionnaire, we examine the use of SM as a tool to promote sustainable well-being in a group of high school students from various schools in central Slovak Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). The research confirms that during the pandemic, the use of SM by the young respondents contributes significantly to well-being. This is the case when SM is used by high school students as a tool in promoting: (1) personal interests; (2) motivation; (3) communication and interpersonal connectivity; (4) preferred forms of online education; and (5) online games. The article presents a set of recommendations regarding the use of SM as a tool for sustaining the well-being of young people during the pandemic.

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