“We invest screens with a peculiar power, seeing them as symbolic scapegoats and saviors.” What does the prevalence of screens mean for parents and children as they try to negotiate the extent, content and settings for the use … Read more
“The pervasiveness of mobile devices is changing the way people interact with content and their surroundings” (Horizon Report, 2017). We invite you to think about the way mobile technologies are impacting the way we learn, teach, work, read, … Read more
Twenty-first century life is fueled by information technology facilitating our actions and communication. Recognizing technology’s usefulness as well as its limitations, technical skills related to varied forms of information technology use have become necessary competencies for citizenry, success … Read more
Many educational technology researchers leverage social media data to answer questions about trends, collaboration or learning networks. If you are not a programmer, you will most likely use existing apps and tools to conduct quantitative data analysis and … Read more
This post covers the details of how to use R to generate data visualizations. We will use a sample data set that includes about 800 tweets using hashtag “#edutech” for the purpose of explanation. To learn how this … Read more
In the last 25 years, the Internet has fundamentally changed the way we interact with each other. In 1993 there were only 50 static pages on the World Wide Web. Today, social networking tools alone have billions of … Read more
Replication is important to science. It helps make science a self-correcting system. Any time a result is surprising, researchers will try to replicate it, to see if the phenomenon is dependable or just random occurrence. Among different fields … Read more