Weblog is an Internet tool that is believed to possess great potential to facilitate learning in education. This study wants to know if weblog can be used to promote students’ critical thinking. It used a group of secondary two students from a Singapore school to write weblogs as a means of substitution for their traditional handwritten assignments. The topics for the weblogging are taken from ...

BACKGROUND Health literacy skills tend to decline during ageing, which is often attributed to age-related cognitive decline. Whether health literacy skills may be influenced by technological and social factors during ageing is unknown. METHODS We investigated whether internet use and social engagement protect against health literacy decline during ageing, independent of cognitive decline. We ...

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand how users determine credibility in the internet environment from a conceptual level and the implications of these new methods of credibility determination on internet tools (primarily software) and services. Design/methodology/approach – The author first examines the underlying reasons for increased dependence on the internet for information, using elect...

purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is consider...

introduction: the information literacy status and the use of information technology among students in the globalization age of course plans are very momentous. this study aimed to evaluate the information literacy status and use of information technology among medical students of shiraz university of medical sciences in 2013. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study with crosssectional ...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of information and communication technology on the structure of social networks. three major questions have been considered. first, how far does the combination of adolescent social links tend to be heterogeneous and how much is this change related to social and technological factors? second, does this alternation affect the power of adolescen...

this study aims to investigate the relationship between information literacy, computer self-efficacy and academic performance in a population of 1054 of ba and ma students of psychology and educational sciences faculty of tehran university. the data are collected in a sample of 283 students (103 ba and 180 ma); selected using cochran's sampling formula. these students answered mittermeyer ...

This study explores the extent to which the information seeking behaviour of researchers active in the field of English Literature in the universities of the UK and the wider world has changed as a result of the developing electronic information revolution. It deals with the researchers’ attitudes towards the Internet and examines their position with regard to utilizing the Internet as a public...