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Multimedia Labs as Content Incubators [PDF]
, 2011 The New Media Consortium, in its 2011 Horizon Report, argues that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every profession, but that the skills aren’t yet well defined or well taught. That claim is certainly supported by
Sauer, Geoffrey, Sauer, Geoffrey
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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
John Diaz +5 more
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African-Born Immigrants in U.S. Schools: An Intercultural Perspective on Schooling and Diversity
, 2011 Despite the significant increase of African-born immigrants in the United States of America, the education system does not recognize their presence and does little to facilitate their integration through the implementation of necessary curricular ...
Awokoya, Janet, Harushimana, Immaculee
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Revisiting the Ancient Origins of Gender Inequality
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study re‐examines the long‐term effect of traditional plough use on contemporary gender roles, as originally advanced by Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn [Quarterly Journal of Economics (2013) Vol. 128, pp. 469–530]. The findings demonstrate that the reduced‐form relationship between historical plough adoption and female empowerment is robust ...
Trung V. Vu
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Status of Digital Novice Academic Librarians’ Continuing Professional Development
Pakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries, 2013 This paper aims at exploring the ways, through which the academic librarians engage themselves in continuing professional development (CPD) activities. It also identifies the sources that academic librarians feel helpful for their CPD.
Uzma Anwar, Nosheen Fatima Warraich
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How Social Media Affordances Mediate the Digital Diaspora: Latinx Perspectives
The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & InclusionWith the increasing prominence of online communications, scholars have begun to investigate the concept of the digital diaspora—the ways in which immigrants create and maintain connections with each other, their country of origin, and the receiving ...
Shannon Oltmann, Fatima Espinoza Vasquez
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Students, the Net Generation and Digital Natives:Accounting for Educational Change
, 2011 This chapter examines a number of different terms and popularized accounts of young people who are now at the stage in their lives of engaging in university education across the world.
Jones, Chris
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Immigrants and Billion Dollar Startups [PDF]
, 2016 Immigrants play a key role in creating new, fast-growing companies, as evidenced by the prevalence of foreignborn founders and key personnel in the nation's leading privately-held companies.
Stuart Anderson
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Health anxiety (HA) is characterized by impairing worry about being or becoming seriously ill. This cross‐sectional study aimed to explore psychological and behavioral correlates of HA compared to other anxiety phenomena in adolescents, that is, with respect to depression, physical symptoms, bodily dissatisfaction, health‐related ...
Charlotte Steen Duholm +6 more
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Health of Philippine Emigrants Study (HoPES): study design and rationale. [PDF]
, 2018 BackgroundImmigrants to the United States are usually healthier than their U.S.-born counterparts, yet the health of immigrants declines with duration of stay in the U.S.
Brindle, Eleanor +8 more
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