Educational technologies are not homogeneous. This chapter proposes a framework to categorize various technologies in the K-12 educational setting into groups of operational technologies and pedagogical technologies by whether they directly participate in the process of teaching and learning. Furthermore, pedagogical technologies are split into tool-based and program-based technologies based on whether they are teacher-driven tools or algorithm-driven learning programs. Efficient adoption of tool-based technologies requires a redefinition of learning goals to embrace student-centered education. Program-based technologies need more research to be fully understood and improved, and current ones are underresearched and fail to engage and motivate students to learn.

Cybermobbing stellt ein nicht zu unterschätzendes Problem der heutigen Sozialen Medien dar. In diesem Beitrag interessiert, (1) ob sich Einstellungen gegenüber Cybermobbing empirisch erfassen lassen und (2) welche Einstellungen Schülerinnen und Schüler gegenüber Cybermobbing haben. ie Stichproben der vorliegenden Untersuchung entstammen der IEA-Ländervergleichsstudie ICILS (Schweizer Modul) und der Studie Lebenswelten Ostschweizer Jugendlicher (LeOJ). Das Alter der befragten Schülerinnen und Schüler liegt zwischen 12 und 16 Jahren. Zur Erfassung der Einstellung gegenüber Cybermobbing wurde ein Instrument neu entwickelt, welches hier vorgestellt wird. Die beiden Datengrundlagen bestätigen ein theoretisch begründetes g-Faktormodell. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Schülerinnen und Schüler gegenüber Cybermobbing in deutlicher Mehrheit negativ eingestellt sind.

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Although educational research acknowledges that social perception processes are relevant for understanding but also evaluating situations, the topic of impression management (IM) has achieved only little attention so far. Individuals have discussed rather as passively exposed to the mechanism of social interaction and perception processes. This contribution changes perspectives and addresses the question of conscious impression management within classes. The chapter asks whether students use self-presentation tactics in order to deliberately navigate the impression their teachers should have of them. By means of an empirical study, country-and gender-specific differences with regard to impression management were found. Likewise, students with a high educational aspiration and good school grades scored higher or at least differently on impression management than students with a low educational aspiration level and low school grades. And students with a high educational aspiration but low grades try to overcome this discrepancy by means of personally adapting to the teachers' expectations. Even though the influence mechanism of impression management on school success cannot conclusively be answered, this paper opens new perspectives on the scientific discourse of social inequality as well as teaching quality and discusses implications for teacher education.