There are many opportunities for social technologies to create wider and more valuable educational communities. This paper presents an analysis of a Government initiative to create educational communities around schools in Victoria, Australia using social networking systems. The analysis, comparing several systems, shows that a number of factors, including interpretation of reactions by actors ...

In the classroom, search tools enable students to access online resources. While these have many benefits in theory, practice there are also ethical issues consider. this article, we discuss a number of ethics-related problems teachers faced with and they need find solutions for. Based on our own research experience developing deploying information discovery for classroom (both traditional sett...

BACKGROUND When individual judgment conflicts with a group, the individual will often conform his judgment to that of the group. Conformity might arise at an executive level of decision making, or it might arise because the social setting alters the individual's perception of the world. METHODS We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and a task of mental rotation in the context of peer ...

Humans' ability to represent their body state from within through interoception has been proposed to predict different aspects of human cognition and behaviour. We focused on the possible contribution of interoceptive sensitivity to social behaviour as mediated by adaptive modulation of autonomic response. We, thus, investigated whether interoceptive sensitivity to one's heartbeat predicts part...

This study studies the role of hidden curriculum on educational function of students in 2011-2012. It also studies the hidden curriculum (social setting) on educational function among high- school students in Nayshabour. This research is descriptive and inferential. It also uses Halpean craft questionnaire and the validity shows 88%. 290 students were selected. Social settings of high schools i...