MALET Issues

This study looked at the impact of the 4-H Club's Facebook page and its impact on positive youth development. Findings suggest that their Facebook page can foster positive youth development whereby the social media platform can be used by youth who are part of the organization for learning experiences and to address community issues, for example.

This article looks the responsibilities that internet advertisers have to children and legal issue related to the vulnerability of children.

The purpose of this article is to examine how children are pursued by the advertiser based on age and interests. Their personal information is collected from social media profile pages and used in a technique known as profile targeting.

This article examines advertising in online environments and how children are encouraged to provide information in order to participate.

This article looks at the impact of social networking sites Facebook and Youtube specifically on cognitive abilities. Findings include between passive and active users of Facebook and Youtube there was no difference in cognitive ability.

The study looks at the direct and indirect effect of adolescents social media use on thier identity formation. Sampling 2079 adolescents, ages 11-19, in Bermuda, findings include that depending on the way adolescents​ are using social media it can "enhance or diminish their interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences".

This article analyzes the concerns surrounding analytics from a sociocritical perspective. I will use this article to examine potential benefits of as well as pitfalls associated with analytics as well as the six principles proposed to address ethical issues in analytics.

The review focuses on social comparison, consumption experiences, and the cause and effects. The advertising reflected in this study are product categories such as food, beverages, toys, and games.

A study that looks at the essential role parents play in teaching their children digital literacy in the online marketplace by sharing consumption experiences.

Book with essential explanations to understand the concept of Scaffolding. Also the paper refers to the information processing (IP) the way in which we register sensorial and the way we keep it in our memory until it becomes knowledge.

This resource explores critical issues such as copyright, technology tools, and accessibility and includes examples from top Blackboard practitioners which are applicable to any LMS.

This journal focuses on digital Immigrants in distance education and understands teachers as leaders capable of communicating in virtual environments and students as participants facing unfavorable technological factors.

This video provides an introduction to inclusive learning by exploring strategies that promote diversity and support inclusion. The video also addresses how organizations can improve the workplace through encouraging a positive learning culture and adopting inclusive learning practices.

This video describes three main learning styles-visual, auditory and kinesthetic-and the four personality types that all individuals display, including activists, reflectors, theorists, and pragmatists.

This video introduces the key principles of adult learning, including learning styles and some specific difficulties faced by older individuals.

Using data from a longitudinal study of LGBTQ youth and young adults, this study looks at levels of outness, victimization, and social support within Facebook. Findings included that these youth and young adults use the secutriy controls and other features of Facebook to manage their identities.

Using the results of interviews conducted with twenty-two 14 - 18 year olds​, this study looks at how adolescents use social media platforms to regulate emotions. Findings include that adolescents do us different platforms to share different emotions. In the case of the subjects in this study Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram were used to share positive emotions and Messenger and Twitter to share negative emotions.

The study looks at puberta​​l timing in girls and their online peer networks and more specifically Facebook. Researchers surveyed Sweden girls in grade 7 and then again in grade 8. One of findings suggests that early maturing girls use Facebook to establish new relationships whereby the platform is used to practice self-disclosure.

This article discusses the psychological research which shows how people participate in social media affects their interactions with others. Moreover passive displays such as which photos they choice for their profiles can tell a lot about the 'real' person behind the keyboard.

This news article is from a lesser known online publication, though the author is careful to provide links to well-known publications and government sources to support their points. The goal is to highlight the lack of security protocols by universities and schools managing student data and the potential hazards including hackers releasing student information