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Developing and measuring an assessment instrument for media literacy among digital natives using Digital Intelligence (DQ) framework
Get PDFThe emergence of digitalisation focusing on media literacy is becoming more prevalent and thus forcing educators to embrace innovations as our digital natives are now shifting their attention to digital technologies. This study aimed to develop and measure an assessment instrument for media literacy focusing on knowledge, skills, and values for digital natives in Malaysia. Adopting the digital intelligence (DQ) framework, we have constructed the assessment instrument relevant to our digital natives of secondary school students and distributed it across schools in eleven states and one Federal Territory of Malaysia. We received a complete set of instruments from 1,276 respondents of Form Two and Form Four students and analyse the data by using descriptive and statistical analysis through SPSS. The findings of the study contribute to a more holistic assessment instrument that recognises the increasingly complex areas of knowledge, values, and skills for digital natives living in diverse, digitally-mediated environments
Effect of media literacy on entrepreneurial development of learners in adult and vocational education
Get PDFMuch attention has been paid to the contributions of media literacy to children and adolescent development in most developed countries. This study adopted a non-equivalent control type of quasi-experimental research design involving the experimental and control groups. The sample size for the study was 90 learners drawn from all public adult and vocational education centres across Nigeria. The Entrepreneurial Development Test” (EDT) was the data collecting instrument. Data gathered were analysed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance. Findings show that learners exposed to media literacy had a higher positive effect on entrepreneurial development than basic literacy. Furthermore, the cooperative learning style adopted gained a higher entrepreneurial development mean score than solitary. On interaction effect, the study shows that basic literacy had a more positive effect than media literacy, hence, the advocacy for providing necessary facilities to promote media literacy skills
Digital Citizenship Education: Perceptions on the concept, self-reported competences and practices of Georgian school society
Get PDFThe project ‘Digital Citizenship in General Education Schools in Georgia: Challenges and Ways of Implementation’ aimed to understand to what extent were teachers, students and parents aware of the Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) concept, whether teachers felt competent to implement it in the classroom and what DCE activities were carried out there. Data were collected from 1954 individuals, among teachers (205), students (972), parents and guardians (777), following an exploratory sequential design (qualitative followed by quantitative), and data analysis exposed that even half of the school society members claim to be aware of the DCE concept, they lack the right competences to apply them in their daily practice. Considering the project, two guides were created, one for teachers and one for parents, both aligned with the Georgian curriculum. Both documents aim to raise awareness of DCE and become key resources in training teachers and other educators
Assessing information literacy levels among underprivileged communities
Get PDFThis study examines the levels of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) among underprivileged communities, shedding light on their digital literacy and online behaviour. Rooted in the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy framework, focusing on specific dimensions of MIL, with an emphasis on assessing the ability to retrieve, critically evaluate, and manage information. 366 participants among the targeted community were involved, where survey instruments aligned with MIL principles were adopted in identifying the strength and areas for improvement for the targeted underprivileged community. Participants’ awareness of data privacy was also assessed. The findings emphasize the critical role of targeted interventions and the need to enhance MIL among the community. Privacy awareness, cultivation of critical thinking skills, and effective online communication strategies were identified as the key factors. These observations offer insights into MIL within underprivileged communities, providing a guidance for policymakers, educators, and community organizations working towards narrowing the digital divide. Grounded in the context of Pahang, Malaysia, this research serves as a foundational resource for addressing information literacy challenges faced by underprivileged communities globally
Evaluation of 14 PFAS for permeability and organic anion transporter interactions: Implications for renal clearance in humans
Get PDFPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) encompass a diverse group of synthetic fluorinated chemicals known to elicit adverse health effects in animals and humans. However, only a few studies investigated the mechanisms underlying clearance of PFAS. Herein, the relevance of human renal transporters and permeability to clearance and bioaccumulation for 14 PFAS containing three to eleven perfluorinated carbon atoms (ηpfc = 3–11) and several functional head-groups was investigated. Apparent permeabilities and interactions with human transporters were measured using in vitro cell-based assays, including the MDCK-LE cell line, and HEK293 stable transfected cell lines expressing organic anion transporter (OAT) 1–4 and organic cation transporter (OCT) 2. The results generated align with the Extended Clearance Classification System (ECCS), affirming that permeability, molecular weight, and ionization serve as robust predictors of clearance and renal transporter engagement. Notably, PFAS with low permeability (ECCS 3A and 3B) exhibited substantial substrate activity for OAT1 and OAT3, indicative of active renal secretion. Furthermore, we highlight the potential contribution of OAT4-mediated reabsorption to the renal clearance of PFAS with short ηpfc, such as perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS). Our data advance our mechanistic understanding of renal clearance of PFAS in humans, provide useful input parameters for toxicokinetic models, and have broad implications for toxicological evaluation and regulatory considerations
Fashion, Politics, and War in the Shadow of September 11th, 2001
Get PDFThrough an examination of dress behavior, this paper gathered primary and secondary source literature that improves the understanding of America\u27s response to 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in terms of fashion and dress behavior. Primary source literature includes newspapers and magazines that range from 2000 to 2005. This date range was selected to limit other factors that may contribute to potential changes in dress behavior, as the turn of the century (1999-2000) created uncertainty, and early signs of The Great Recession of 2008 began to emerge around 2006. Secondary sources were not limited to a date range because they offer an examination of the events after they have occurred. Recent literature offers contemporary perspectives revealing how perspectives may have changed. Literature that discusses previous American conflicts from the 20th century and their impacts on fashion is also included. This established the historical significance of military conflicts on fashion and common themes that emerged. Valuable literature discussed broad popular culture, fashion specifically, and the discrimination against Muslim people in the post-9/11 era
The Humanities and Civic Health in Rhode Island
No full textElizabeth Francis
leads Rhode Island Humanities’ promotion of public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement. Elizabeth has expertise in building partnerships and initiatives that bring together humanities scholars, community members, public humanities practitioners, and policy makers in economic and cultural development. Deeply interested in the connection between public participation in cultural activities and overall civic health in communities, Elizabeth recently co-authored, with Julia Renaud, Culture is Key: Strengthening Rhode Island’s Civic Health Through Cultural Participation (2022), an initiative that led to the development of the state’s first-ever Civic Health Index (2022). Elizabeth earned a PhD in American Studies at Brown University and a BA at Hampshire College. Elizabeth is serving as Secretary of the State Commission for the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
Rhode Island Humanities’s Associate Director of Grants and Humanities Initiatives Julia Renaud believes that public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement—the work of the public humanities—are integral to nurturing, strengthening, and inspiring all communities in Rhode Island. During her time at RI Humanities, she has co-authored the Culture Is Key report (2022) with Executive Director Elizabeth Francis and Civic Health Fellow Julia Lazarus, and the first-ever Rhode Island Civic Health Index (2022)—awarded the Federation of State Humanities Councils’s 2023 Schwartz Prize—with Data Consultant Neelam Sakaria. Prior to joining RI Humanities, Julia worked in cultural nonprofits in New York and Providence as an archivist, educator, curator, and public historian. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Julia holds an MA in Public Humanities from Brown University and an AB, summa cum laude, in American History and Literature with a minor in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University.
Francis (Renaud was unable to attend) discussed the 2022 Rhode Island Civic Health Index which draws upon data-driven indicators and information about diverse connections to civic life to examine Rhode Island’s civic well-being. The Index provides a baseline to help communities, leaders, and policy makers understand what challenges and opportunities Rhode Islanders share. The award-winning report served as the state’s first-ever Civic Health Index, an initiative led by Rhode Island Humanities in partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and the Rhode Island Department of State with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the “A More Perfect Union” initiative and from the Rhode Island Foundation.
Colin Woodard is the director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University. He is the New York Times bestseller author of six books including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America and Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood. A longtime foreign correspondent, he reported from more than fifty counties and seven continents for The Christian Science Monitor and San Francisco Chronicle, and won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting at Maine’s Portland Press Herald. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he is a past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a current Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Woodard discussed the Nationhood Lab, an interdisciplinary research, writing, testing and dissemination project focused on counteracting the authoritarian threat to American democracy and the centrifugal forces threatening the federation’s stability. The project delivers more effective tools with which to describe and defend the American liberal democratic tradition and better understand the forces undermining it. This fall they completed an in-depth message development and testing initiative to create an effective, compelling messaging strategy for a U.S. civic national narrative. The effort, involving multiple national polls and in-depth qualitative interviews, defines U.S. purpose, identity and belonging around the natural rights assertions in the Declaration of Independence and is meant to out compete the ethnonational authoritarian “MAGA” alternative
Democratic Crises and Structural Change
No full textAlexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. A historian by training, he has specialized in the exploration of historical problems that have contemporary policy implications. His book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. A significantly revised and updated edition of The Right to Vote was published in 2009. His 1986 book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded three scholarly prizes. Keyssar is coauthor of The Way of the Ship: America’s Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000 (2008), and of Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history. In addition, he has co-edited a book series on Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council’s National Research Commission on Voting and Elections, and he writes frequently for the popular press about American politics and history. Keyssar’s latest book, entitled Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (2020), is published by Harvard University Press. Keyssar’s talk analyzes the reforms needed to reinvigorate and sustain democracy in the United States