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What and How Children Search on the Web
"... The Internet has become an important part of the daily life of children as a source of information and leisure activities. Nonetheless, given that most of the content available on the web is aimed at the general public, children are constantly exposed to inappropriate content, either because the lan ..."
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the language goes beyond their reading skills, their attention span differs from grown-ups or simple because the content is not targeted at children as is the case of ads and adult content. In this work we employed a large query log sample from a commercial web search engine to identify the struggles
Running Head: WHAT WORKS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS? 1
"... Abstract Governments, schools, and curriculum authorities are increasingly recognizing that body image during adolescence is a public health issue that warrants attention in the school setting. After 30 years of eating disorder prevention research, and given the current interest in this area, it se ..."
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Abstract Governments, schools, and curriculum authorities are increasingly recognizing that body image during adolescence is a public health issue that warrants attention in the school setting. After 30 years of eating disorder prevention research, and given the current interest in this area
The Research Paper, and Why We Should Still Care
"... The Research Paper, and Why We Should Still Care -Brent 1 In this article, I revisit an orphaned child of writing studies-the -research paper.‖ Discussions of the research paper and how we might teach it remain spotty at best in the writing studies literature. There is still little agreement on the ..."
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to look at the world-and it can refer both to formal research conducted according to conventions borrowed from science, and to informal research that consists of observation and experience. Thus Larson draws attention to the fact that the term -research paper‖ is a clumsy way to describe what we generally
Reading Psychology
, 2009
"... This study examined the ways in which 18 first-grade teachers and their students in 11 high-risk urban schools began to use literacy-focused technology. The goal of the study was to observe the technology in use by the students, to observe the classroom dynamics and teachers' instructional cho ..."
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and upset in general) indicated that they enjoyed the working with literacy program on the computer and exhibited on-task focus. What drew them in was the game-like nature of the phonics and spelling games. Of the children we observed, only one student chose to do a reading part of the lesson. All the rest
Agenda setting and the "new" news: Patterns of issue importance among readers of the paper and online versions of the New York Times
- Communication Research
, 2002
"... This study examines whether readers of the paper and online versions of a national newspaper acquire different perceptions of the importance of politi-cal issues. Using data from a weeklong experiment in which subjects either read the print version of the New York Times, the online version of that p ..."
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attention. Given the importance of this attention-directing function, we might ask whether the nature of agenda setting by the news media might change as the technologies of news dissemination adapt to the formats of new communication media. Newspaper readers quickly learn to navigate the familiar signals
Journalism: new media, new actors-- new ethics?
"... The traditional field of journalism has been facing major challenges in recent years, either because new actors have entered that field (professional journalists actually lost the monopoly of searching, gathering, editing and diffusing news in the public sphere), or because the old actors are increa ..."
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regards the activity of professional journalists in new (on-line) media and the active commitment of ‘laypersons ’ in the process of handling and diffusing public information. In this paper we will try to analyze and to discuss these questions, with reference, among others, to Eliot Freidson and his
Who said what? The effects of source cues in issue frames
- Political Behavior
, 2009
"... ABSTRACT Drawing on previous research concerning the role that source cues play in political information processing, we examine whether an ideological identity match between the source of a framed message and the respondent moderates framing effects. We test our hypotheses in two experiments concer ..."
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on both values: While some feel the KKK should be able to march and exercise their First Amendment rights, others feel that the KKK are a threat to public order and safety. What is more, we examine the role of identification by varying the position taken by liberals and conservatives. Experimental Design
Tinker Sachs & Mahon, 2006), extensive reading in many cases is still excluded
"... Abstract Target language input at the right structural level and in adequate amount is believed to be a primary condition for successful second/foreign language learning. This study was designed to investigate the issue of English language input that younger learners were likely to be exposed to th ..."
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Journal Professional Teaching Articles Volume 53 July 2011 62 poor, a critical issue in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts, was not addressed by the recent reform in China. The study called for urgent attention to this problem among reform authorities, school administrators, and English
M nite Attitudes to Property
"... The ability of human beings to enjoy life on this earth is threatened at all times, in all places, by a simple fact: each human being must have access to the earth's limited physical resources. For this reason, questions of property- who has aright to own what and under what conditions- are fun ..."
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- the proper division of property rights remains an important problem even for relatively prosperous societies. Despite what would appear to be the uncontestable nature of such an assertion- that property rights are fundamental to the exercise of justice in any community- little attention has been given
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