Establishing the norm of new media literacy of Singaporean students: Implications to policy and pedagogy

The educational value of internet use in the home for school children: A systematic review of literature

“…Using the Internet at home is associated positively student achievement in literacy in ten studies and negatively in five studies. A positive correlation was identified between home computer and Internet use and achievement at school in reading (Casey et al, 2012;Johnson, 2013;Leu et al, 2015), writing (Jesson et al, 2015;Johnson, 2013) and digital media literacy which includes consuming, interacting, critiquing and creating online (Chen et al, 2018;Di Blas & Paolini, 2013;Leu et al, 2015). However, having the Internet at home does not always correlate to higher literacy scores and the age of participants can influence results.…”

“…Instant messaging was correlated to low literacy skills (Johnson, 2013). Online gaming at the weekend and not during the week correlates to higher literacy achievement (Hartanto et al, 2018) as does spending more time online (Chen et al, 2018). Gaming, especially during the week correlate to lower reading skills (Acar, 2015;Hartanto et al, 2018).…”

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“…The result is to broaden our understanding of media literacy to include historically and culturally conditioned relations between three processes: (i) symbolic and material representations of knowledge, culture, and values; (ii) diffusion of interpretative skills and abilities across populations (stratified); and (iii) institutional, in particular, state management of the power that access to and use of skilled knowledge brings to those who are 'literate'. Chen & Lee (2018) mentioned that indicators of new media literacy include; a) consuming functional literacy, consisting of absorbing skills and understanding, b) critical consuming literacy, consisting of analysis, synthesis and evaluation c) functional presuming literacy covering aspects of presuming skills, distribution and production and d) critical presuming literacy, which includes aspects participation and creation.…”

The educational value of internet use in the home for school children: A systematic review of literature

“…Using the Internet at home is associated positively student achievement in literacy in ten studies and negatively in five studies. A positive correlation was identified between home computer and Internet use and achievement at school in reading (Casey, Layte, Lyons, & Silles, 2012;Johnson, 2013;Leu et al, 2015), writing (Jesson et al, 2015;Johnson, 2013) and digital media literacy which includes consuming, interacting, critiquing and creating online (Chen, Lin, Lic, & Lee, 2018;Di Blas & Paolini, 2013;Leu et al, 2015). However, having the Internet at home does not always correlate to higher literacy scores and the age of participants can influence results.…”

“…Instant messaging was correlated to low literacy skills (Johnson, 2013). Online gaming at the weekend and not during the week correlates to higher literacy achievement (Hartanto, Toh, & Yang, 2018) as does spending more time online (Chen et al, 2018). Gaming, especially during the week correlate to lower reading skills (Acar, 2015; Hartanto, Toh, & Yang, 2018).…”