فصلنامه فن آوری اطلاعات و ارتباطات در علوم تربیتی
سال هشتم شماره 2 (پیاپی 30، زمستان 1396)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the use of new educational technologies in the content of new social sciences textbooks for teaching social skills to high school students of grade nine.The research approach was quantitative and content analysis method has been used. The statistical population is the social sciences textbooks, of grade nine of secondary first period of high school. The entire content was applied as the study sample. Using open categorization technique, data analysis was done. Concepts and sub-categories were identified through collecting all units of text as well as recording units. At the end, all subcategories were categorized into online and offline technologies. The results of the content analysis showed the lack of enough usage of educational technology in textbook. As a matter of fact, only 18 content units relevant to the usage of online educational technology and 15 offline ones were applied throughout the textbook.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teacher's attitude towards using electronic content and educational technology with the learning of students in Lamerd city. The research method has been applied in terms of purpose and nature, and in terms of data collection, a descriptive correlation has been used. The statistical population of the study included all teachers in Lamerd who taught at the schools in the school year of 2016-17. In this study, stratified sampling method was used to select 152 individuals. Data were collected using two researcher-made questionnaires. The face and content validity of questionnaires were confirmed by researchers and experts. Reliability of the questionnaires by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was estimated 0.831 and .0901 for teacher's attitude towards the use of technology and electronic content questionnaire and learning questionnaire respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Friedman test and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the attitude of using electronic content and educational technology with student's learning. Also, the findings showed that the electronic content and up-to-date and effective educational media, the motivation and teachers mastery in the use of educational media will motivate their students to learn.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the national media in managing the crisis and maintaining the peace of the citizens in the district 22 of Tehran. In this study, a descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of the citizens of Tehran in the district 22 in 2017 that was 129 thousand people. Based on the available sampling method, 384 people were selected as sample using the Cochran sampling formula. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire in this research. The questionnaire used was regulated by combining models on the role of national media in crisis management and maintaining peace between citizens. Reliability of the questionnaires was measured and confirmed by Cronbach's alpha test. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods including Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and binomial test using SPSS software.The research results showed that national media included cultural-social conferences, films and television series, children's and adolescent's programs, television animations, news and training programs, has role on crisis management and maintaining the peace of the citizens.

The research was conducted with the aim of investigating the factors affecting behavioral tendencies toward using information technology in Guilan electronic schools staffs. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all the staff of the electronic schools of Guilan province with the 2145 number of participants. The sample size was estimated to be 326 by Cochran formula as well as available inaccurate sampling. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire to measure the variables affecting behavioral tendencies toward the use of information technology. In order to measure the validity of the tool, face and convergent validity were used through the mean of variance (AVE), which was more than 0.5. Calculating Cronbach's Alpha showed the reliability of the tool was 0.85, also calculating Dillon-Goldstein coefficient combined validity indicated the result above 0.7. Data analysis was carried out by the use of inferential statistics and statistical technique of structural equation modeling with partial least squares approach. The results indicated the effect of subjective norms, perceived usefulness, perceived ease, perceived risk, experience in comparison to the use and the expectation of performance improvement on behavioral tendency toward using information technology. Also, the results showed that perceived adaptation has a moderating role in the relationship between perceived usefulness and perceived ease, perceived risk, experience with use, expectation of performance improvement and behavioral tendencies toward the use of information technology.

Using an e-learning and smart system can reinforce the knowledge and efficiency of the course in a better way. Therefore, today's schools should be designed for the information age. The purpose of the present study is studying the effectiveness of using smart boards in the curriculum elements, from the viewpoint of teachers in the second grade of high school. This research has been conducted qualitatively, and is an applied research, based on the activity acceptance theory. The data collection method was observation and semi-structured interviews. The statistical sample for the interviews consisted of 20 second grade high school teachers in Isfahan and their classrooms were observed. Data analysis –a qualitative content analysis- was simultaneously carried out with data collection. The results of this research showed that smart boards have such characteristics considering 4 curriculum elements (purpose, content, strategy, class and assessment) and 2 TAM elements (ease of application and perceived benefit) that generally instances of saving and restoring the content, color variation in the area of application, using various pages, flexibility in the classroom management and the form of students’ sitting, and continuous and gradual assessment were mentioned in the area of ease of application; and in the area of perceived benefit instances like high precision, increasing students’ motivation and interest, synchronizing students with the current advances, the need for objectification in some lessons, using the time optimally and preventing from wasting the time, and oral assessments were the most important factors mentioned by the teachers.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of educational computer games on the metacognitive skills of the 10th grade students in Biology. Regarding this goal, research hypotheses about the effect of educational computer games on some metacognitive components including learning motivation, self-regulation learning and student's meta-memory were studied. The statistical population of the study was all male students of the 10th grade in the field of empirical sciences in school year 2016-17, in secondary schools in Qom, District 1. Students of one of the state-run high schools were selected as sample by available sampling method. The present study is applied in terms of its purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of its method. The pretest-posttest method was performed with two groups of control and experiment. For all three hypotheses in this study, covariance test with Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Levene test were used for pretest and control group. The results showed that educational computer games, besides that had a positive effect on learning motivation and self-regulation learning as the meta-cognitive components of students, they also strengthen their meta-memory.

The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of traditional teaching- learning based on participatory education based on the use of PowerPoint, blog, discussion forum and virtual network on satisfaction and academic achievement of the 10th grade students. This quasi-experimental study was conducted for the 10th grade students of the natural sciences in the academic year of 2016-17 in the 20th district of Tehran. A cluster was selected from high school girls including 3 classrooms (16 students, 13 people and 18 students) and biology course was chosen for the study. The data collection instruments included satisfaction questionnaire made by the researcher in addition to the academic scores. Its content validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by the test-retest method (r = 0.76). t test was applied to analyze the achievement test scores. Moreover, in order for the data analysis, Levine’s Test was given to analyze the homogeneity of the variances. ANOVA Analysis was done to determine the effectiveness of the three selected learning methods (PowerPoints, weblogs, forums, and virtual networks). The results of the study showed that the participatory learning method is effective in the students’ achievements and the level of satisfaction about the teaching and learning methods. Based on the findings, the most influential techniques included the use of weblogs and forums. One of the reasons for using weblogs was considered to be the unlimited data sorting, presentation, colorful displaying of content, adding image sound, as well as adding links in useful order in a part of the job.

The aim of this research was the investigation of direct and indirect effects of virtual social networks on student’s social and learning outcomes. Research method was casual-correlation. The statistical population of this research included 4500 students of Islamic Azad University and Payame Noor University of Saqez in the 2016-17 academic year. According to the statistical population and using Krejcie & Morgan sampling table, 354 people were selected as the sample by stratified random sampling method. In order to collect research data, Yan Yu et al. virtual social networks, social and learning outcomes questionnaires were used. The questionnaire has 26 items that measure research variables included: using virtual social networks, acculturation, social acceptance, self-esteem, satisfaction of University life and performance proficiency. To assess the validity of this questionnaire, formal and content validity and to assess reliability exploratory factor analysis and coefficient of Cronbach's alpha were used. Cronbach's alpha was 0.85. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation test and path analysis using SPSS and Amos software. The result showed that using virtual social networks has a positive and significant relationship with social outcomes and learning outcomes. Also, the results of path analysis showed that using virtual social networks does not directly affect the learning outcomes, but by mediating social outcomes has indirectly effect on the outcomes of student learning.