Learning Electronically THE EFFECTS of TELEVISION on SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT: A MOROCCAN CASE STUDY: An Empirical Ground for Digital Learning Research (Digitalism)

Technology has always happened with fearsome, paranoid thoughts. Nowadays we have a very sizzling fear from the new digital tools we are using, smartphones and AI. Not surprisingly, we feared as much from the press, telegraph, photographs, radio, films, and television. Humans might have feared when they heard the first intelligible voice or saw the first alphabet, let alone the first cave painting.Yesterday, television was very fearsome.Nowadays, AI is.This book is an investigation of the process of individual learning and school-based achievement within the context of a mass medium, television, since there were unsubstantiated negative beliefs that more exposure to television's effects makes schoolchildren more likely to become non-achievers in school content and social life, just like today’s widespread AI fears.The model and methodology of television effects on learning pave the way to grounds for new forms of digital learning. Read more