Educational Technology News

December 1, 2023

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Oct. 18, 2023 — The changing information technology industry, latest artificial intelligence applications, high demand for IT professionals, and evolving need for learning are leading to the search for innovations in education that will allow current and future ...

New Internet Addiction Spectrum: Where Are You on the Scale?

Oct. 2, 2023 — Young people (24 years and younger) spend an average of six hours a day online, primarily using their smartphones, according to new research. Older people (those 24 years and older) spend 4.6 hours ...

In the Age of ChatGPT, What's It Like to Be Accused of Cheating?

Sep. 12, 2023 — A new study looks at how college students react to being accused of using ChatGPT to cheat on ...

The Pressure Is Real for Mums Managing Their Children's Digital Use

Aug. 24, 2023 — Parents are spending considerable amounts of energy thinking about and mitigating the risks associated with their kids using mobile phones and the ...

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Effectiveness of Video Gameplay Restrictions Questioned in New Study

Aug. 10, 2023 — Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...

Researchers Find Little Evidence of Cheating With Online, Unsupervised Exams

July 31, 2023 — A new study finds unsupervised, online exams can provide a valid and reliable assessment of student learning, but instructors should be aware of ...

Learning from Superheroes and AI: Researchers Study How a Chatbot Can Teach Kids Supportive Self-Talk

July 18, 2023 — Researchers created a new audio chatbot, Self-Talk with Superhero Zip, aimed to help children speak positively to themselves. This chatbot is 'a ...

Board Games Are Boosting Math Ability in Young Children

July 7, 2023 — Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...

Helping Adolescents to Feel Competent and Purposeful -- Not Just Happy -- May Improve Grades

July 5, 2023 — Encouraging adolescents to feel capable and purposeful -- rather than just happy -- could improve their academic results as well as their mental ...

Combining Maths With Music Leads to Higher Scores, Suggests Review of 50 Years of Research

June 29, 2023 — Children do better at maths when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has ...

Students Positive Towards AI, but Uncertain About What Counts as Cheating

May 12, 2023 — Students are positive towards AI tools such as ChatGPT in education, but 62 percent believe that using chatbots during exams is cheating. However, where the boundary for cheating lies is highly ...

Research Shows Mobile Phone Users Do Not Understand What Data They Might Be Sharing

May 9, 2023 — Privacy and security features that aim to give consumers more control over the sharing of their data by smartphone apps are widely misunderstood, ...

Joyful Music Could Be a Game Changer for Virtual Reality Headaches

May 2, 2023 — Listening to music could reduce the dizziness, nausea and headaches virtual reality users might experience after using digital devices, research suggests. Cybersickness -- a type of motion sickness ...

Internet Access Must Become Human Right or We Risk Ever-Widening Inequality

Apr. 7, 2023 — People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human rights such as education, healthcare, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic ...

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ChatGPT Is Still No Match for Humans When It Comes to Accounting

Apr. 20, 2023 — ChatGPT faced off against students on accounting assessments. Students scored an overall average of 76.7%, compared to ChatGPT's score of 47.4%. On a 11.3% of questions, ChatGPT scored higher ...

Students Use Machine Learning in Lesson Designed to Reveal Issues, Promise of A.I.

Apr. 4, 2023 — In a new study, researchers had 28 high school students create their own machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) models for analyzing data. The goals of the project were to help students ...

Think You're Good at Math? Study Shows It May Be Because You Had Equitable Math Teachers

Mar. 3, 2023 — A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone in the class equitably, especially in racially diverse schools. While the ...

Robot Helps Students With Learning Disabilities Stay Focused

Feb. 21, 2023 — Engineering researchers are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their ...

Video Game Playing Causes No Harm to Young Children's Cognitive Abilities, Study Finds

Feb. 7, 2023 — Despite old fears that bad effects follow excessive video game playing or questionable game choices, researchers found those factors mattered little, if any, in children's brain health. The bad ...

Getting Kids Outdoors Can Reduce the Negative Effects of Screen Time

Jan. 23, 2023 — Researchers have found that, although more screen time at 2 years of age is associated with poorer communication and daily living skills at age 4, time spent playing outdoors can mitigate these ...

When Using Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool, Context and 'Feeling Real' Matter

Dec. 15, 2022 — Psychologists had people learn words from two phonetically similar languages in virtual reality environments. Those who learned each language in its own unique context mixed up fewer words and were ...

Online Gaming Enhances Career Prospects and Develops Soft Skills, Finds New Study

Nov. 29, 2022 — Online gaming behavior can encourage gamers to gain a variety of soft skills which could assist them with training to support their career aspirations, according to new ...

Lack of Computer Access Linked to Poorer Mental Health in Young People During COVID-19 Pandemic

Nov. 14, 2022 — Researchers have highlighted how lack of access to a computer was linked to poorer mental health among young people and adolescents during COVID-19 ...

Machine Learning, from You

Nov. 1, 2022 — Many computer systems people interact with on a daily basis require knowledge about certain aspects of the world, or models, to work. These systems have to be trained, often needing to learn to ...

Music Class in Sync With Higher Math Scores -- But Only at Higher-Income Schools

Oct. 27, 2022 — Music and arts classes are often first on the chopping block when schools face tight budgets and pressure to achieve high scores on standardized tests. But it's precisely those classes that can ...

Automatic Text Simplification: Efficacy in the Foreign Language Classroom

Oct. 26, 2022 — Texts used in second language (L2) classrooms have traditionally been simplified manually. With recent technological advances, text can be simplified automatically through artificial ...

Pandemic Escalated Teen Cyberbullying -- Asian Americans Targeted Most, Research Finds

Oct. 13, 2022 — A study of U.S. middle and high school students shows that about 17 percent were cyberbullied in 2016 and 2019, but that proportion rose to 23 percent in 2021. Notably, 19 percent of Asian American ...

Study Shows How Math, Science Identity in Students Affects College, Career Outcomes

Oct. 3, 2022 — Two researchers have published a study that asked students if they see themselves as a math or science person, then followed up with them several times in following years. Results showed those who ...

Collective Effort Needed to Help Children Thrive Following Exposure to Online Risks

Sep. 29, 2022 — Helping children become more 'digitally resilient' needs to be a collective effort if they are to learn how to 'thrive online', according to new research. Digital resilience is ...

Sport, Sleep or Screens: New App Reveals the 'Just Right' Day for Kids

Sep. 9, 2022 — Not too sport heavy, not too sleep deprived -- finding the 'just right' balance in a child's busy day can be a challenge. But while parents may struggle to squeeze in homework amid ...

What Is the Best Way to Group Students? Math Model

Sep. 7, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new approach that uses math to determine the best ways to group individuals to maximize learning. Their work has broad implications in education, as well as in economics, ...

The Way You Talk to Your Child About Math Matters

Sep. 7, 2022 — 'You're so smart!' -- This encouraging response may actually do more harm than good to children's math performance, according to a new study. The study found that encouraging ...

Using Digital Media to Relax Is Related to Lower-Quality Parenting

Aug. 24, 2022 — Caregivers who consume digital media for relaxation are more likely to engage in negative parenting practices, according to a new multinational ...

Reasons Behind Gamer Rage in Children Are Complex -- And Children Are Good at Naming Them

Aug. 24, 2022 — Children's outbursts of rage while playing digital games are causing both concern and public debate around the topic. Taking a novel approach to gamer rage, a new study examines the topic from a ...

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