Purpose: In this tutorial, we review the tenets of information literacy (IL) that parallel and intersect with new American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) certification standards requiring clinicians to engage in evidence-based practice (EBP). Method: A review of the literature on EBP in medical and allied health areas was conducted through an online database search. The Informati…
The study aimed to reveal the most important recent trends in digital learning systems research, and future visions for the possibility of using digital education systems in teaching media courses and benefiting from them to achieve the desired educational goals of digital learning systems and their effectiveness in media education, and to identify the most important issues, topics and research…
This reflective article considers the impact of policy development and literacy practices in two remote schools in the Northern Territory. It discusses some of the programs that have been introduced and presents some celebratory snapshots of multi-strategy approaches. By highlighting what is working in some communities, the article shows how some approaches are talking back to NAPLAN by detract…
This article reviews two books on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, with a special focus on issues of language, education, and literacy. The article sketches out Bourdieu's main theoretical ideas with respect to language and raises a number of issues on classroom language and academic discourse. Bourdieu's approach is considered with respect to a range of theoretical persp…
The digital media is one of the most important means of information that university students use in their daily lives, whether in the field of study or in the process of communicating with others, knowing news, events and obtaining information, as it is easy to use and accessible to all at the lowest cost. This study sought to know the motives for the use of the Saudi universities’ students o…
Increasing recognition of the cultural and linguistic diversity that is characteristic of the Australian school population, and the wide distribution of literacy achievement amongst students raises a number of equity issues for policy makers, school leaders, and teachers in all education jurisdictions. These issues are as relevant in the middle years of schools as at all other stages of schooling.
Experiential learning has long been advocated for improving learning and creating positive memories and dispositions. The Common Core Curriculum advocates the integration of literacy and math with social studies and science in the belief that such procedures will redirect and improve the depth of learning. The Holocaust Literacy Program reported here is an integrated model for instruction that …
This article reports on research that investigated what teachers and children's caregivers said about literacy education in a school in Hawaii. Drawing from a study that explored understandings about literacy as explained by teachers and caregivers, this paper considers the importance for a school community to unpack and explore the similarities and differences of what literacy means, before th…
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of educational environment based on smart learning in developing English Language listening skill among IUG female learners. To achieve this aim, the researcher adopted the experimental approach. The study was applied on a representative sample of (30) female students of journalism and media second-level at the Islamic University of Gaza, and th…
Preservice teacher candidates hold disparate repertoires of beliefs and values about teaching. Many construct primitive, underdeveloped knowledge bases that influence their teaching styles and affect their responses to teacher education programs. If teacher education programs do not recognize and addres their prior knowledge, preservice teachers experience little or no change in their values an…