ChildArt issue on Metaverse

The latest ChildArt magazine traditionally published by the International Child Art Foundation is out and the topic is Metaverse! Grateful to be a part of a team of child online protection experts. I shared some personal thoughts for children and about children on Metaverse and on my digital technologies journey.

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An artificial intelligence (AI) learning and computational thinking of students

I am very pleased and happy to share that the article my colleagues and I wrote, is out at the Elsevier’s Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4, 2023. The article “Does intrinsic motivation mediate perceived artificial intelligence (AI) learning and computational thinking of students during the COVID-19 pandemic?”, has the open access version and is now available online.

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New book: Divertimento for the four seasons

My first book of short stories has arrived! Thanks to everyone who supported me and participated in creating this book, family, and friends! The book had its premiere at the International Book Fair, on the 27th of October 2022. It was an honour and a privilege to read one of my short stories.

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An interview on Digital Fatigue and here is what we can do

Earlier this month, I was invited by Ehtesham Shahid, a journalist at the Khaleej Times. He asked me about digital fatigue, and I talked about how this prolonged situation of uncertainty and our blurred boundaries online and offline influence our emotional, cognitive, and physical selves, and could reading books save us?  

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Call for Abstracts: Springer book on Digital Literacy and Meaningful Connectivity

Does your work involve digital literacy and/or digital inclusion? Please consider contributing to the forthcoming multidisciplinary book Digital Literacy – A Human-Centric Approach to Meaningful Connectivity edited by yours truly, and published by Springer. Please see the details in the post.

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