Media Training Research Articles

MP26: The simulated newsroom: a novel educational intervention to teach advocacy skills to resident physicians

Innovation Concept: Advocacy is a key competency of Canadian residency education, yet physicians seldom engage with supra-clinical advocacy efforts upon completion of training. Emergency medicine (EM) residency training may not equip graduates with the knowledge and skills required to engage as physician-advocates in their communities. Focused writing workshops may increase the confidence and ability of EM trainees to engage as health advocates. Methods: Following a literature review, simulated newsroom workshops were developed by two EM physicians with graduate-level journalism training and workplace experience. Participants were invited to participate in an audio-recorded focus-group and to submit their opinion editorial. Twelve participants registered for the workshops and six attended both sessions and the focus group; four submitted written work. Focus group transcripts and written work were qualitatively analysed to understand acceptability, feasibility, and how students might engage as future health advocates. Curriculum, Tool, or Material: The simulated newsroom consisted of participants acting as journalists and the expert facilitator acting as a news editor. The first workshop provided a framework for news judgement in a didactic session, followed by interactive exercises including: prioritization of news pitches, a simulated editorial meeting, and analysis of published news articles. The participants then drafted their own pitches for in situ feedback from peers and facilitators. Two-weeks later, participants brought their completed articles for peer and expert review before submitting their final article. Conclusion: The innovation bolstered resident physician confidence in advocacy through the popular press, and provided demonstrable skills in opinion writing. Participants felt challenged to develop compelling narratives and differentiate this form of advocacy communication from academic writing or prior media training. Participants valued the workshop as a voluntary component of residency education led by peer experts. Through their writing, residents demonstrated an understanding of structural factors that impact patient health and health systems. Future engagement as physician advocates may be tempered by fears of professional repercussions for public engagement; the impact of physician advocacy on population health outcomes is not yet known.

Mobile learning as a media training of reading literacy: blended learning

Increasing the professionalism of teachers mostly done by the government through various training. Teachers must attend training or other personal development but they were leaving the class or class time, so students do not get assistance in the learning process, they asked the student to do the task, so that the class is out of control and tends to be noisy. The purpose of this research is to develop mobile learning as a medium in literacy training so that training becomes more effective. This research is a research and development study. This research method was develop training models according to the needs of the trainees. The samples of this study were 32 teachers in SMA N Semarang. The results of this study indicate that the training model using mobile learning media and the learning system conducted in blended learning can make literacy training more effective. This training model also provides solutions to the training problems experienced by teachers. Based on the results of the feasibility test of the model through expert judgment shows that the model is feasible in terms of benefits, ease of use, the attractiveness of the model and the existence of innovations produced for the implementation of training.

Social Media as a Personal Branding Tool: A Qualitative Study of Student-Athletes’ Perceptions and Behaviors

While previous research focused on social media and student-athletes, there is a lack of knowledge about positive functions of social media use for student-athletes, especially personal branding purposes. Thus, this study aimed to explore how student-athletes perceive and use social media for personal branding purposes. A total of 11 student-athletes at a Division I university participated in semi-structured interviews. Considering the exploratory nature of the study, a qualitative inquiry and a phenomenology approach were employed to grasp an overall understanding of student-athletes’ personal branding via social media. The self-presentation theory was adopted to help understand student-athletes’ use of social media. Emerging themes included benefits and barriers of social media use, social media strategies, and concerns about negative consequences of social media. Findings from this study shed light on the importance of increasing awareness and knowledge of the concept of personal branding via social media for student-athletes. These findings also call for more effective social media training or education programs that can foster student-athletes’ positive attitude toward social media use for personal branding.

Assessing the Usability, Appeal, and Impact of a Web-Based Training for Adults Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media: Pilot Suicide Prevention Study.

BackgroundSuicide prevention remains challenging among youth, as many do not disclose suicidal ideation. Nearly one-third of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI and AN, tribal, or native) youth see concerning messages on social media at least weekly.ObjectiveTo prepare adults to support AI and AN youth who post or view concerning messages, our team designed an hour-long training: Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media. This study tested the usability, appeal, and impact of the training.MethodsA purposive sample of 70 adults was recruited to participate in the pilot, which included 2 study arms. Arm 1 participants completed a 30-min training video and reviewed accompanying handouts, including the Viewer Care Plan (VCP). The VCP provided a 3-step planning and response tool: (1) Start the Conversation, (2) Listen, Gather Information, and Assess Viewer Experience, and (3) Plan and Act. The intent of the VCP was to support and connect AI and AN youth who either view or post concerning messages on social media to life-saving resources. Those enrolled in arm 2 participated in an additional interactive role-play scenario with a coach that took place after the training, via text message. Participants provided qualitative and quantitative feedback on the training’s relevance, appeal, and utility. Paired t tests were used to assess confidence in addressing concerning posts between pre- and postsurveys. Content analysis of the role-play transcripts was used to assess the quality and completion of the coached role-plays, in relation to the recommended VCP.ResultsAltogether, 35 participants finished the training and completed pre- and postsurveys; 22 participants completed the 6-month follow-up survey. Pre-post analyses of differences in means found significant improvement across several efficacy measures, including confidence starting a conversation about social media (P=.003), confidence contacting the person who posted something concerning (P<.001), and confidence recommending support services to youth who view (P=.001) or youth who post concerning messages (P<.001). Similarly, pre- to 6-month analyses found significant positive improvement across multiple measures, including confidence contacting the youth who posted (P<.001), confidence starting a conversation about social media with youth (P=.003), and an increase in the number of experiences recommending resources for youth who viewed concerning social media posts (P=.02). Of the 3 steps of the VCP, the least followed step in coached role-plays was sharing tools and resources, which is a part of the third Plan and Act step.ConclusionsFindings indicate that the Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media training is a promising tool to prepare adults to intervene and complete the VCP. Additional evaluation with a larger cohort of participants is needed to determine the unique impact of the role-play scenario and changes in mental health referral rates, behaviors, and skills.

Towards a pedagogy of accessibility: The need for critical learning spaces in media accessibility education and training

Until now, the debate on education and training in accessibility has largely ignored the core competences of the accessibility expert, as it has tended to focus exclusively on context- and field-related skills. Looking at the case of media accessibility through the critical lens of accessibility studies, the article calls for the development of a theoretical reflection on education and training. Such reflection could then solidly support extensive investigation of the specific skills of accessibility researchers, professionals and policy-makers, frame analyses of current programmes, and strengthen proposals for new curricula and professional profiles. The article contributes to such a reflection by advancing and discussing the inclusion of critical learning spaces within vocation- and research-oriented courses. Using the critical lens of accessibility studies, the article also investigates whether education and training in audiovisual translation and media accessibility have been mostly dominated by some discriminatory normative frameworks, such as the medical model of disability, and how this is influenced by and in turn influences practices. The article suggests that this problem requires a (re)design of education (and practices) using the tools that constitute the critical apparatus of accessibility studies, such as the human variation paradigm, the social model of accessibility, the universalist account of access, the poietic model of agency, and proactive and user-centred approaches. Ultimately, the article outlines the very first traits of a pedagogy of accessibility, that is, a systematic approach to the practice(s) of teaching and learning accessibility.

COMPETENCE APPROACH IN DESIGNING A PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM MEDIADESIGN

The theoretical aspect is highlighted and practical ways of designing a professional educational program Mediadesign are presented. The features of professional training in the design direction have been investigated. Topical issues of ensuring the quality of the educational process of future media designers using the tools of the competence approach are considered. The article highlights the importance of modeling competencies and the peculiarities of introducing a competent approach into the process of professional training for applicants for higher education. The issues of the importance of modeling competencies and the peculiarities of introducing a competence-based approach into the process of professional training of future media designers in higher education are analyzed. It is proved that the quality of professional training of future media designers justifiably causes the need for the formation of the necessary competencies among students, which combine knowledge, skills, abilities; abilities and personality traits; general culture indicators; the ability to perform professional duties efficiently. The acquisition by future specialists of a system of design, creative, technological, communicative and interactive knowledge, skills and abilities is aimed at the formation of competencies, which should be considered as a result of high-quality professional training in the professional educational program Mediadesign. The specificity of a media designer's activity lies in the ability to carry out design developments in the context of modern world material and artistic culture, to creatively comprehend the national heritage and to master the skills of using advanced digital technologies as much as possible, provides ample opportunities for employment, professional growth and further scientific activities; the ability to perform complex specialized tasks and solve complex problems in the field of digital media, provides for the implementation of innovations in professional activities and is characterized by the uncertainty of conditions and requirements. Determining the competencies of a media designer makes it possible to determine a clear logical and consistent structure for the design of an educational and professional program Media design. The acquisition by future media designers of a system of knowledge, skills and abilities is aimed at the formation of integral, general and special competencies, which should be considered as a result of the educational process of professional training of Mediadesign.

Features of formation of cross-cultural competence of foreign students in training and cross-cultural communication of mass media

Features of formation of cross-cultural competence of foreign students in training and cross-cultural communication of mass media

Agrochemicals and human well-being: A review in context of Indian agriculture

Modern chemicals, in form of fertilizers and pesticides, have undoubtedly increased the food production worldwide. Over use of chemical application and its effect on environment and human health could not be neglected any further. Residual effect of agrochemicals could be seen in both the terrestrial life and marine life. Future food demand must be achieved with better quality food, along with use of less toxic chemicals. Alternate practices like introduction of GMOs, precision agriculture and IPM must be put into practice, to lessen the load of chemical use. This review evinces the health hazards caused due to misuse and over use of agrochemicals and also talks about the contributing factors, of which poor education and extension system plays pivotal role. Improving the literacy among the farmers, strengthening the extension, training and involvement of media could provide scope for reducing vulnerability of farmers to health related issues caused by prolong exposure to the toxic chemicals.

Professional media training of education specialists

Professional media training of education specialists

Media training in Algeria between the necessities of upgrading academic research and the challenge to respond to development and democracy benefits

There is no doubt that the deep transformation witnessed by human life in the modern era has taken place at various levels , the media was not so much more aware of it , than it was the more fortunate element of the process of transformation and its main contributor .&#x0D; It has become one of the strategic proponents of building political , economic , social and cultural development projects , and successful development policies can not be established without effective reforms with well-defined media plans .&#x0D; The societal need for media research imposed a convergence of its results with community concerns through an integrated approach commensurate with current benefits , but the deepening of the media attention to the developmental problems and the democratic stakes , and the transition from stereotype transfer to active participation in all national construction plans and follow their cours .

Preparing to face the media in times of crisis: Training spokespersons’ verbal and nonverbal cues

Seventeen in-depth interviews with professional media trainers from Belgium were carried out to examine which recommendations are offered during media training of organizational spokespersons. The interviews reveal the recommendations of media trainers concerning verbal, visual, and vocal cues of spokespersons, with special focus on addressing the media in times of organizational crisis. The findings offer a structured overview of practical recommendations given by media trainers to organizational spokespersons. In addition, the findings put the scarce academic literature about the optimal verbal and nonverbal delivery of crisis responses into perspective, by showing if and how those theoretical aspects are addressed in practice. Based on these insights a research agenda for crisis communication delivery is set.

Improved Vegetable Cultivation Practices: An Adoption Study among the Farmers’ of Some Selected Areas in Bangladesh

The research work has been done to determine the extent of adoption of improved vegetable cultivation practices by the farmers. Attempt was also made to explore the contribution of selected characteristics of farmers viz. age, education, family size, farm size, experience in vegetable cultivation, annual income, vegetable cultivation knowledge, extension media contact, organizational participation, innovativeness, training experiences and problems confrontation on their adoption of improved practices in vegetable cultivation.&#x0D; It is a Field Survey Research Shajahanpur upazila under Bogra district of Bangladesh by the department of Agricultural Extension and Information System between January to June of 2018.&#x0D; Data were collected from randomly selected 112 farmers of Chopinagar union under Shajahanpur upazila of Bogra district by using a structured interview schedule. Appropriate scales were developed in order to measure the variables. Multiple regression test was used to ascertain the contribution of the concerned independent variables on the dependent variable of the research work.&#x0D; 50% of the farmers had low adoption while 40% had medium adoption and 9.80% had high adoption of improved practices in vegetable cultivation. Among the selected characteristics education, experiences in vegetable cultivation, annual income, innovativeness and training experiences showed significant and positive contribution to their adoption of improved practices in vegetable cultivation. However, family size and problems confrontation showed the negative significant contribution to adoption of improved practices in vegetable cultivation of the farmers. Age, farm size, vegetable cultivation knowledge, extension media contact and organizational participation did not show any significant contribution on the adoption of improved practices in vegetable cultivation of the farmers.&#x0D; Adoption of improved vegetable cultivation practices by the farmers will not be possible to improve in a significant extent unless the concerned authorities (like-Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Department of Agricultural Extension) take proper steps.

Developing augmented reality in mathematics learning: The challenges and strategies

One of the technologies developed massively in learning is Augmented Reality (AR) technology. This research will explain the challenges of teachers in developing AR-assisted learning media and strategies to anticipate the challenges that arise in developing AR-assisted learning media. This type of research is qualitative phenomenological research. The participants of this research were 75 Mathematics teachers who joined the developing AR-assisted learning media training. The teachers came from various regions in Indonesia. The mathematics teachers invited were 36 junior high school teachers and 29 senior high school teachers from public and private schools who were vulnerable at the age of 22-35 years and 27 teacher is male and the others are female. They have attended an AR-assisted media development training because have interested in AR and education. The data collection used is a questionnaire and an interview which is done to all participants and data analyzed using the Bogdan Biklen model. The results of the research show that the challenges encountered by the teacher are meeting the minimum standards of hardware and software, limited references both sourced from humans, online media or print media. Efforts made by teachers to overcome existing problems such as gradually upgrading laptops, finding sources from foreign languages and trying to form joint learning communities.

Public engagement by researchers of different disciplines in Singapore: A qualitative comparison of macro- and meso-level concerns.

Guided by neo-institutional theory, this study compares how researchers from science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines differ from researchers from the arts, humanities, and social sciences fields in terms of how macro- and meso-level concerns shaped their willingness to conduct public engagement. Focus group discussions conducted among researchers based in Singapore revealed that science, technology, engineering, and math and arts, humanities, and social sciences researchers held different macro-level concerns. Particularly, science, technology, engineering, and math researchers raised more concerns about media misrepresentation, while arts, humanities, and social sciences researchers were more concerned about receiving political repercussions and public backlash. With regard to meso-level considerations, researchers from all disciplines cited similar institutional constraints for public engagement; however they possessed varying public engagement competencies and held differing perceptions of their social duty to engage the public. Hence, researchers of different disciplines desired different kinds of media training. Policy and managerial implications as well as directions for future research were provided.

Social media and social wellbeing in later life.

Social wellbeing is important to health, but maintaining social relations often becomes difficult in later life due to retirement, chronic disease, and the death of spouses and friends. Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, present accessible and low-cost communication technologies that have been demonstrated to enhance feelings of social connection and reduce loneliness in younger age groups. This exploratory study uses a four-week social media training workshop as an intervention in a randomised controlled study to examine whether similar social benefits might be realised for those at older ages, aged 65+ years. Social wellbeing measures of social capital, loneliness, social connectedness and social provisions were examined, revealing only small differences in social integration. As these findings seemingly contradict studies conducted with younger persons, the contexts of social media use in older adulthood are discussed, along with proposals for future research directions.

DEVELOPING INTEREST IN GEROPSYCHOLOGY THROUGH INTERGENERATIONAL EXPERIENCE

In order to develop interest in geropsychology, it is beneficial for students to have direct experiences with older adults. This presentation reports on the development of an innovative student volunteer group within a doctoral program in clinical psychology. In this group, students engage directly with older adults in the community. With the help of geropsychology faculty, students have developed and led intergenerational activities such as a panel discussion about dating, reminiscence using music, fraud recognition, and social media training. The group consists of 32 current students, along with 7 recent graduates. Community partners have provided overwhelmingly positive feedback. Students have reported benefits including personal satisfaction from intergenerational contact, learning and pleasure from hearing older adults’ stories, and feeling appreciated. Reported challenges include communication issues and feeling unsure how to relate to people with dementia. Students also describe negative assumptions about aging that have changed as a result of their participation.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN LATER LIFE

Social well-being is important to health, but maintaining social relations often becomes difficult in later life due to retirement, chronic disease, and the death of spouses and friends. Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, present accessible and low cost communication technologies that are associated with enhanced feelings of social connection and reduced loneliness in younger age groups. This paper examines whether similar benefits might arise for adults at older ages. Using a four-week social media training workshop as a randomized, controlled wait-list intervention, this study examines whether social benefits are realized among a group of novice social media users, aged 65+. Measures of social well-being, including social capital, loneliness, social connectedness, and social provisions, were assessed at pre- and multiple post-test intervals for differences related to social media learning. Findings revealed only small differences between groups in one dimension of social connectedness, that of social integration. As these findings seemingly contradict studies conducted with younger persons, the contexts of social media use in older adulthood are discussed. These include the relevance of lower social media adoption rates, as well as influences that intersect with an older person’s life stage, such as gaps in network coverage on technological platforms, perceptions of the value of weak connections, and a reduced digital skills base. These additional factors are relevant to understanding disparity in the benefits that can be obtained through the use of social media and highlight the differing needs that social media fulfill at varying life stages.

Study of effectiveness and reliability of education on ergonomic risk factors and musculoskeletal complaints in patient-carrier personnel of Shahid Bahonar Hospital of Kerman

Introduction: Lack of awareness of the principles and rules of ergonomics, inappropriate postures and frequent displacement of patients and loads can cause musculoskeletal disorders in medical personnel. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of in-person training and social network education on the ergonomic risk factors and musculoskeletal of patient carrier personnel in the Shahid Bahonar Hospital of Kerman. Method: This study is an applied and quasi-experimental study. That was performed on 60 participants in Shahid Bahonar Hospital kerman. The participants were randomly divided into two groups of 30. The first group was trained via in-person training method combined with practical work and questionings and the second group was trained via social networks. The data were collected through a self-made questionnaire measuring awareness, Nordic questionnaire along with the scale of the investment rate and the numerical checklist patient transfer assessment index (PTAI) was collected before training for one week, one month and six months after training. For analyzing the data, SPSS software version 24 was used. Results: Low back pain is more prevalent among sick carriers than other musculoskeletal disorders. There was a significant difference between the knowledge and PTAI scores in both methods before and six months after training (P &lt;0.05). Also, comparing neck (P = 0.014), shoulder (P = 0.006), waist (P = 0.00), knee (P = 0.006), and foot (P = 0.016) complaints in training method There was a significant difference before and six months after training. There was no significant difference in musculoskeletal complaints at the end of six months in education via social media. Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that both in-person and via social media training had an impact on reducing ergonomic risk factors and musculoskeletal complaints. And the effect of in-person training was significantly greater than that of via social media training. In addition, the reliability of the training effect was significant only In-person training

Pelatihan Sistem Digital dan Komunikasi Menggunakan Modul Arduino pada Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan

Tujuan kegiatan yaitu meningkatkan kompetensi guru dan siswa dengan pelatihan modul praktik berbasis Arduino dalam implementasi bidang sistem digital dan komunikasi yang memiliki perangkat multi-input dan multi-output. Masalah mitra yaitu teknologi industri 4.0 dan kompetensi guru. Masalah teknologi industri 4.0 diimplementasikan dalam modul pelatihan praktik yang berguna sebagai media pembelajaran yang dapat diimplementasikan untuk berbagai aplikasi. Masalah kompetensi guru dengan pelatihan dan pengembangan media pembelajaran sehingga mampu menciptakan dan berinovasi dalam sistem digital dan komuikasi. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini adalah diskusi, penjelasan, demonstrasi, latihan, dan observasi. Hasil kegiatan ini meningkatkan kompetensi dan pengetahuan sekolah vokasi dengan ditandai peserta mampu mengoprasikan dan mengimplementasikan modul..

Pelatihan Media Online Dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Melek Informasi Kalangan Milineal pada Program Pembangunan di Desa Purbahayu

The presence of digital technology in the community has had a significant impact on the patterns of life behavior of urban and rural communities. Pangandaran is a new district in West Java, still has many developing villages. In developing villages, there is also exposure to increasingly massive digital communication used by the community. The involvement of the millennial generation as part of the village community in the digital era can provide open and innovative development opportunities to develop the potential of the village-owned. Based on this information, the implementation of community service in the village of Purbahayu was carried out by choosing the theme of online media training for millennial generations in order to improve information literacy in development using lecture, discussion, and simulation methods through the demonstration learning model approach. The results of the implementation of community service show that the millennial generation in Purbahayu village has increased knowledge that is evident from the many questions surrounding the use and use of online media for the development of village potential. Whereas behaviorally, the millennial generation in Purbahayu village has been exposed to various business services and financial services by the millennial generation habits in urban areas.