Davide Taibi

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute for Educational Technology ITD

In the context of Social Media literacy, the success of educational interventions relies on designing motivational learning environments that seek students’ engagement. Despite existing achievements in social media education to include more appealing resources (e.g. gamification, authentic learning, interactive simulations), limited research has ex...

The widespread use of social media has highlighted potential negative impacts on society and individuals, largely driven by recommendation algorithms that shape user behavior and social dynamics. Understanding these algorithms is essential but challenging due to the complex, distributed nature of social media networks as well as limited access to r...

The widespread use of social media has highlighted potential negative impacts on society and individuals, largely driven by recommendation algorithms that shape user behavior and social dynamics. Understanding these algorithms is essential but challenging due to the complex, distributed nature of social media networks as well as limited access to r...

Data literacy is a complex concept that includes the skills necessary for an individual's success in the digital age. By measuring the level of data literacy, concept improvements, and greater success are realized. The goal of this research is to observe the trends when the word is about the measurement of data literacy with respect to the method,...

This paper provides a systematic literature review on integrating Open Government Data (OGD) with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. OGD refers to publicly accessible data produced or collected by governmental entities, promoting transparency and citizen engagement. The paper explores the application of OGD in various...

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Over the past few years, digitalisation has led to the development of new forms of Holocaust memory, with advances in digital technology reshaping and introducing alternative ways of remembering, understanding and representing the Holocaust. The purpose of this study is to examine how three Holocaust survivors – Lily Ebert (100), Gidon Lev (88) and...

Social media poses numerous dangers, such as the spread of toxic content, hate speech, false information, and moral outrage. In particular, the propagation of moral outrage on social media can result in harmful outcomes like promoting conspiracy theories, violent protests, and political polarization. Teenagers frequently use social media and are es...

Digital data has consolidated as the fuel of technological development. The commercialisation of Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence has led to the massive adoption of Artificial Intelligence applications by the general public, bringing data literacy to a prominent position in the public debate. In this data-driven economy...

The goal of knowledge tracing (KT) is to track a students' progress over time by analyzing their historical data, so as to predict their future performance on tests related to the topics they have covered. The rise of online platforms for education, where the learning process is embedded, unlocked the potential of customized teaching such as in int...

Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence are influencing people's everyday life. The educational context is not an exception, and AI has permeated the learning and teaching experiences. New Artificial Intelligence models offer possibilities to create new systems for enhancing the learning experience and supporting teachers in their roles. App...

Artificial intelligence’s (AI) progress holds great promise in tackling pressing societal concerns such as health and climate. Large Language Models (LLM) and the derived chatbots, like ChatGPT, have highly improved the natural language processing capabilities of AI systems allowing them to process an unprecedented amount of unstructured data. Howe...

For the first time, augmented reality is introduced into a behaviour lesson according to the framework of positive behaviour intervention and support (PBIS) and the first interaction data between the user and the teaching resources are investigated. The xAPI statements reflect the actions that commonly compose a behavioural lesson; that is, teach,...

Social media has a very important role in adolescents’ daily life, providing them with means for communicating, sharing, representing themselves and creating and maintaining relationships. However, social media can hide risks for the users which can undermine their mental well-being, especially amongst adolescents. The exploratory research presente...

Within online learning environments research, this paper identifies four remote-learning models that have characterised the use of the OpenMWS platform within the processes of selection, transcription, annotation and concordance-like searches characterising video corpus construction and analysis. They relate to student tasks such as the creation of...

Artificial intelligence's progress holds great promise in assisting society in addressing pressing societal issues. In particular Large Language Models (LLM) and the derived chatbots, like ChatGPT, have highly improved the natural language processing capabilities of AI systems allowing them to process an unprecedented amount of unstructured data. T...

Currently, the search history in search engines is presented in a list view of some combination of enumerated results by title, url or search query. However, this classical list view is not ideal in collaborative search environments as it does not always assist users in understanding collaborators' search history results and the project's status. W...

Social media are offering new opportunities for communication and interaction way beyond what was possible only a few years ago. However, social media are also virtual spaces where young people are exposed to a variety of threats. Digital addiction, discrimination, hate speech, misinformation, polarization as well as manipulative influences of algo...

We present a digital media literacy activity composed of (i) an educational talk and (ii) a game-based activity. The aim is to support teachers in developing learning activities to increase awareness of social media threats among students. Through this activity students directly experience phenomena like echo chambers and filter bubbles that can be...

Social media platforms provide opportunities for users across the world to connect and communicate between them and engage into acts of social support and entertainment. Yet it can also bring negative consequences as it has been associated with poor mental health and life dissatisfaction. This underlines the importance of delivering social media li...

The provision of toxic content and misinformation is a frequent phe- nomenon in current social media with specific impact and risks for younger users.AQ1 We report on efforts taken in the project Courage to mitigate and overcome theseAQ2 threats through dedicated educational technology inspired by psychological and pedagogical approaches. The aim i...

In the last few years, many educational and therapeutic interventions for young people with neurodevelopmental disorders are based on systematic monitoring of the outcomes. These interventions are typically conducted using single-case experimental designs, (SCEDs) a set of methods aimed at testing the effect of an intervention on a single subject o...

Social media have become an integral part of our lives, expanding our interlinking capabilities to new levels. There is plenty to be said about their positive effects. On the other hand, however, some serious negative implications of social media have been repeatedly highlighted in recent years, pointing at various threats to society and its more v...

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Social media platforms provide opportunities for users across the world to connect and communicate between them and engage into acts of social support and entertainment. Yet it can also bring negative consequences as it has been associated with poor mental health and life dissatisfaction. This underlines the importance of delivering social media li...

ocial media are a game changer in the communication arena in terms of quan�tity, quality and origin of information users are exposed to. Yet, it’s not clear the outcome of multiple and continued interactions between users and information personalisation systems. These systems may skew the distribution of content and contacts presented to the users....

Social media, defined as “computer-mediated communication channels that allow users to engage in social interaction with broad and narrow audiences in real time or asynchronously” [1], are an integral part of our everyday lives offering new opportunities for communication and interaction way beyond what was possible only a few years ago. 98% of...

The spread of Augmented Reality (AR) and the recent technological developments, provide innovative techniques and tools that show a growing potential in education. One of the pilots of the European Horizon 2020 project ARETE (Augmented Reality Interactive Educational System) aims to investigate and evaluate for the first time the introduction of an...

L'utilizzo didattico delle tecnologie e delle risorse di rete è venuto prepotentemente alla ribalta nel corso degli ultimi anni sotto la spinta di un'emergenza sanitaria senza precedenti che ha indotto Scuola e Università a spostare la didattica nella dimensione digitale, mettendo in evidenza l'impreparazione di entrambi i contesti all'adozione di...

Reaction times (RTs) are a measure of the time elapsed between the sensory stimulation and the occurrence of a response. It depends upon many factors. This paper focuses on one of the possible sources of variability introduced by the device used to gather RTs data and compares RTs performance between subjects who completed a Stroop task through des...

In recent years, educational researchers and practitioners have become increasingly interested in new technologies for teaching and learning, including augmented reality (AR). The literature has already highlighted the benefit of AR in enhancing learners’ outcomes in natural sciences, with a limited number of studies exploring the support of AR in...

In this paper we present the results of a systematic review aimed at investigating what the literature reports on cyberbullying and cyberhate, whether and to what extent the connection between the two phenomena is made explicit, and whether it is possible to identify overlapping factors in the description of the phenomena. Specifically, for each of...

The primary aim of the study was to test the alleged facilitating role of insight-like strategy in the detection of masked solutions Compound Remote Associates problems (CRA). A sample of 114 participants solved 19 CRA problems presented online. Participants were requested to solve the problems in which either the solution to the CRA was randomly p...

Employees with data literacy skills have become highly valuable in today’s economy and labor market. More than ever before, employers demand some degree of data literacy from all employees, regardless of their professional role. New technologies offer many exciting possibilities, but there is no point in having increasingly quantities of data if no...

Learning Analytics techniques are widely used to improve students’ performance. Data collected from students’ assessments are helpful to predict their success and questionnaires are extensively adopted to assess students’ knowledge. Several mathematical models studying the correlation between students’ hidden skills and their performance to questio...

Data literacy is the ability to read, write, critically assess, communicate and extract value of data in different contexts. As such, data literacy is a key competence in the current digital economy, where most transactions require handling high amounts and variety of data. For a data literate workforce in the data-driven industry, there is a criti...

The Web offers an unprecedented number of resources and has become the most popular source of information for students shaping their understanding of a new topic, and for instructors selecting relevant material for learning and teaching activities. Even though search engines are the most widely used tools for searching for educational content, the...

The assessment of students' performances is one of the essential components of teaching activities, and it poses different challenges to teachers and instructors, especially when considering the grading of responses to open-ended questions (i.e., short-answers or essays). Open-ended tasks allow a more in-depth assessment of students' learning level...

In the last few years, many applications for mobile devices have been developed to support learning experiences both in formal and informal contexts. One of the main limits of these applications concerns the development of learning materials suitable for mobile learning contexts. In fact, learning content must be usually prepared in advance by teac...

The social environments based on the Web 2.0 paradigm have modified the way people behave on the Web. One of the direct consequences of this change is that the amount of online resources produced and shared by users has increased considerably. Amongst them, it is possible to find materials that can be exploited for educational purposes. For example...

Nowadays, data are everywhere becoming more and more important in everyday life. Recently, during the COVID-19 outbreak, data are being used on a massive scale, and having the skills to understand the information conveyed through numbers, percentages and trends curves became essential. From this perspective, data literacy is a competence not only i...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the development of several risk factors for mental health, not only for people directly infected but also for those experiencing social isolation, loneliness, and concern for their health. The impact of these factors on individuals’ health and well-being also depends on the type of coping strategies adopted. Moreove...

One of the playful activities used in education is the treasure hunt, a serious game that allows students to work cooperatively. This activity stimulates different cognitive processes connected to accurately reading the clues and understanding them, and extremely effective to elaborate a collaborative strategy necessary to find the hidden objects....

Concept maps are significant tools able to support several tasks in the educational area such as curriculum design, knowledge organization and modeling, students’ assessment and many others. Algorithms for comparing graphs have been extensively studied in the literature, but they do not appear appropriate for concept maps. In concept maps, concepts...

The spread of new technologies like Augmented Reality and recent technological developments, provide innovative techniques and tools that show increasing potential in education. In this paper we will showcase the work implemented within the Horizon 2020 European project ARETE (Augmented Reality Interactive Educational System). One of the pilots of...

According to the Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory of human development ([1][2][3][4][5]), the development of each individual cannot be observed without considering its relationship with the development of other people and, above all, with the environment in which they live. The ecological orientation of Bronfenbrenner with respect to huma...

A patient, nowadays, acquires on-line health information mainly by means of a search engine. Generic search engines have been shown to be limited and unsatisfactory, at times, because of their generic searches that overload users with the amount of results. Moreover, they are not able to provide customized information to different types of users. A...

Social media (SM) have become an integral part of our lives, expanding our inter-linking capabilities to new levels. There is plenty to be said about their positive effects. On the other hand however, some serious negative implications of SM have repeatedly been highlighted in recent years, pointing at various SM threats for society, and its teenag...

With this study we tested whether the solutions to the Compound Remote Associate problems (CRAp) can be facilitated when presented masked. One-hundred-fourteen participants solved 19 CRA problems presented online. Participants were randomly assigned to a condition in which either the solution to the CRA problems was presented in a masked condition...

The number of people searching for on-line health information has been steadily growing over the years so it is crucial to understand their specific requirements in order to help them finding easily and quickly the specific information they are looking for. Although generic search engines are typically used by health information seekers as the star...

More and more often, search engines are used by students as a tool to access information on the Web. This has the potential to affect the learning activities conducted by students. In this paper, the project “In WWW veritas?” is presented. The project has the following objectives: (1) to investigate how searches carried out on the Web through searc...

The retrieval and composition of educational material are topics that attract many studies from the field of Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence. The Web is gradually gaining popularity among teachers and students as a source of learning resources. This transition is, however, facing skepticism from some scholars in the field of educa...

Health literacy constitutes an important step towards patient empowerment and the Web is presently the biggest repository of medical information and, thus, the biggest medical resource to be used in the learning process. However, at present, web medical information is mainly accessed through generic search engines that do not take into account the...

Between 2014 and 2017, around 623,000 people arrived by sea in Italy. This has led to a huge problem for guarantee quality instruction for migrants, especially young people; research carried out by UNICEF has shown that young migrants represent the desire to be able to resume regular education as soon as possible. The answer to these new education...

Search of "right" health information by patients/citizens is an important step towards their empowerment. The number of health information seekers on the Internet is steadily increasing over the years so it is crucial to understand their information needs and the challenges they face during the search process. However, generic search engines do not...

Learning analytics dashboards constitute an effective tool for monitoring learning activities that take place in online learning environments. Thanks to dashboards, teachers can promptly detect low levels of student engagement in given tasks, incorrect usage of a system, and other types of pedagogically relevant information, which helps them to bet...

Health empowerment can be obtained through an informative and educational intervention to increase one's ability to think critically and act autonomously. Medical texts are usually written by professionals and can be difficulty understood by non experts who do not have the same skills and vocabularies. Thus, it would be desirable to have an online...

The description of an innovative framework built on top of Web-based visual programming environment is the primary aim of this contribution. In the last decade, many frameworks oriented to visual languages have been introduced in literature to improve the skill on programming languages, but at the best of our knowledge, no framework has been specia...

This paper presents the results of a project on Computational Thinking education for primary school pupils. During the project – called Computational Thinking for children education – 81 students from a primary school in Italy have been guided to the design and development of computer games through the Microsoft Kodu game development platform. Diff...

Background: In the cognitive-behavioral approach, Functional Behavioural Assessment is one of the most effecti