Methods Approximately N = 2,000 Grade 7 and Grade 8 girls and boys from schools in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia participated. Classes in each school were randomly allocated to one of three 8-lesson programs: Media Smart; Life Smart; the HELPP Initiative (Helping, Encouraging, Listening and Protecting Peers) or to a control condition (usual school classes) with risk factor and...

This article presents the findings from classroom based research into the use of SMART Boards (interactive whiteboards) with kindergarten children. SMART Boards have been used successfully over the past 8years at Abbotsleigh Junior School innovative ways to enhance teaching and learning and facilitate assessment in primary Science. Key research findings are discussed along with some practical e...

This article presents the findings from classroom based research into the use of SMART Boards (interactive whiteboards) with kindergarten children. SMART Boards have been used successfully over the past 8years at Abbotsleigh Junior School innovative ways to enhance teaching and learning and facilitate assessment in primary Science. Key research findings are discussed along with some practical e...

Innovative Smart appliances with an interactive approach and their consumers are growing exponentially. Smart refrigerators are such a prominent intelligent kitchenware and hence published studies on smart homes and smarter kitchen appliances have been around in recent years. Although published research is available on smart refrigerators which describe its use for managing items stored in it a...

The potential of open data as a resource for driving citizen-led urban innovation relies not only on a suitable technical infrastructure but also on the skills and knowledge of the citizens themselves. This paper describes how a smart city project in Milton Keynes, UK, is supporting multiple stages of citizen innovation, from ideation through to citizen-led smart city projects. This approach en...

Making Iranian Schools Smart: From Policy to Practice E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D. N. Ansaari M. Pahlavaan Z. Abootaalebi To assess both the essence and ways of operationalization of a recently adopted policy by the MOE with the aim of making Iranian schools smart, four such schools were purposefully selected, observed, and questioned. The collected data have been analyzed using th...

abstract the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of it system-based instruction vs. traditional instruction of teaching english on iranian low-intermediate efl learners’ reading comprehension ability in a smart school in tonekabon, mazandaran, iran. to collect the data, 60 low-intermediate high school learners took part in the study. as to the homogeneity of the participants,...

The Smart School concepts are introduced in Saudi Arabia (SA) for a long time and due to various factors still the progress in this direction is very little. In this paper various issues, limitations and constraints are discussed. By considering various real-time factors a runtime monitoring system with checker is presented. Various policies and rules are tested for a smooth performance of smar...

Evidence for adverse effects of screen media exposure has led to recommendations to limit children’s screen time. This paper describes a randomized controlled trial of SMART (Student Media Awareness to Reduce Television), an 18-lesson, theory-based classroom curriculum to reduce screen time among third and fourth grade children in two matched public elementary schools (n = 181). Intervention sc...