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Title: Addressing media literacy in K-12 classrooms
Author: Ramsey, L. Heather
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Education, Elementary, Education, Secondary
Description: A study of K-12 core content area teachers’ experiences teaching digital citizenship found that 80% (n=9) addressed topics of media literacy in their classrooms. The study looked at how teachers integrated media literacy topics into instruction, a...

Title: Biopsychosocial contexts influence adult cognitive functioning concurrently and longitudinally
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Payen, Ameante, Bateman, James R., Persin, Michael J.
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Cognition--Age factors, Aging
Description: Background: Cognitive aging is a complex process that impacts human behavior. Identifying the factors that preserve cognitive functioning is a public health priority, given that 20% of the US population will be at least 65 years old in the next de...

Title: Do social connections impact the health and functioning of persons with dementia?
Author: Montoro-Rodriguez, Julian, Hayslip, Bert, Jr.
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Dementia, Alzheimer's disease
Description: A recent scoping review by Joshi and colleagues in the multidisciplinary journal of International Psychogeriatrics reports on the existing empirical evidence of social connections as a possible social determinant of cognitive decline in adults wit...

Title: GAN-based tabular data generator for constructing synopsis in approximate query processing : challenges and solutions
Author: Fallahian, Mohammadali, Dorodchi, Mohsen, Kreth, Kyle
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Databases, Data mining
Description: In data-driven systems, data exploration is imperative for making real-time decisions. However, big data are stored in massive databases that are difficult to retrieve. Approximate Query Processing (AQP) is a technique for providing approximate an...

Title: Hyper-theatricality : melodramatic polarities or tragicomic awareness
Author: Pizzato, Mark
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Melodrama
Description: Melodrama became the dominant mode in movies, with spectacular conflicts of good versus evil focusing on clear-cut heroes fighting monstrous villains. Such melodramatic framing continues to be the dominant mode in our mass/social/gaming media. But...

$Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research$

Title: Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research
Author: Eppes, Martha Cary, Berberich, Samantha, Keanini, Russell, Moser, Faye, Morovati, Mehdi, Porson, Steven, Rasmussen, Monica
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Rocks--Fracture, Earth sciences
Description: Rock fractures are a key contributor to a broad array of Earth surface processes due to their direct control on rock strength as well as rock porosity and permeability. However, to date, there has been no standardization for the quantification of ...

Title: Media literacy matters conference : current landscape, student actions, and future directions
Author: Critical Media Literacy Collaborative
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Information literacy
Description: Media Literacy Matters: Current Landscape, Student Actions, and Future Directions is a half-day conference that brings faculty, students, and researchers across campus together to discuss issues related to media literacy. Media literacy is the abi...

Title: Teaching critical algorithmic evaluation : social media and the datafied self
Author: Grandinetti, Justin
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Social media, Data mining
Description: This presentation focuses on a pedagogical approach and subsequent assignment for critically evaluating the algorithms we interact with in everyday life. While the underlying data driven processes structuring social media are often referred to as ...