With easy access to and exponential growth of online resources in the last decade, the Web has become the primary information source to middle school students for their school work. Yet, prior research has shown that students have difficulty evaluating, reading, and taking notes from online resources. This study analyzed the effectiveness of a digital notepad, which used prompts to scaffold mid...

Through short essay films, Christine Rogers and Catherine Gough-Brady, creative practice researchers filmmakers, attempt to collaborate with each other the theories of ethnographers documentarians David Judith MacDougall. use writing films MacDougall’s as prompts turn their attention processes filming. speaks how holding camera viewfinder her face can manufacture belonging, at times, provide we...

Taking the realms of business, finance and economic history by storm, polycrisis captures complexity an increasingly uncertain world in a state flux transition. Proponents model, such as prominent historian Financial Times contributing editor Adam Tooze, propose marker our age, capturing overlapping interconnected crises beyond cause effect. In his article, authors offer some prompts for consid...

Obesity rates have doubled in the last forty years, and a major cause is the consumption of sugarsweetened beverages. In this paper, we identify channels through which information – about health benefits or taste affects beverage choice. We conduct a field experiment in a school lunchroom with 2,500 children, evaluating the impact of informational prompts on beverage choice and consumption over...