Suzanna So-Har Wong

• PhD
• Lecturer at University of Alberta

Students’ reasoning and decision making on complex socioscientific issues are critical for developing scientific literacy for 21st century citizenship. By incorporating a scenario-based approach, this study aims to understand the complexity of students’ decision making on environmental issues: forests and land use. To help students grasp the contex...

Supporting students to become critical consumers of online information is one of the most urgent agendas in education today. In schools around the world, students are engaging in online information problem solving (IPS) tasks to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by searching and evaluating online information. This qualitative cas...

Digital technologies are part of many children’s everyday lives. They use them for entertainment, information seeking and connecting with friends on social media. These shifts in children’s literacy practices have impacted the ways in which they learn. As more children are engaged with digital technologies, critical literacy practices are vital, pa...

During the COVID-19 pandemic teachers have been expected to learn new digital literacy skills, often applying them immediately. While professional development structures within school districts and professional associations are organized to offer supports, teachers may be challenged to gain digital skills within existing professional development mo...

With an increasing challenge of socioscientific issues in the current society, students’ critical thinking and decision-making skills in complex problem contexts become pivotal aspects of scientific literacy for the twenty-first century citizenship. To ensure students are prepared for the changing and challenging world, problem-based learning (PBL)...

Contemporary children are growing up in a post-typographic era, where mobile electronic devices and digital texts are increasingly present. For parents and educators, shifts into new digital practices and new text forms can create a sense of uncertainty. In response to parent and teacher interest, popular media have frequently focused on topics rel...

The increased use of digital devices such as touchscreen tablets in the home for work, communication, entertainment, and information searching makes them naturally attractive to toddlers and preschoolers who learn to communicate by observing and interacting with parents and older siblings. This paper presents one of the major findings from a study...

The rapid changes in digital tools and innovations require increased and different literacy skills (Carrington & Marsh, 2008; Knobel & Lankshear, 2010; Lankshear & Knobel, 2003a, 2003b; Merchant, 2007; Pahl & Rowsell, 2012; Schleicher, 2012). Portable electronic touch screen devices, tablets, and other digital tools are occupying a growing space in...