Recent News
Recent News
Congratulations to the DALI Team for receiving the NSF Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) grant!
November 21, 2023
The DALI Team has been rewarded the NSF RETTL Grant to work on Social Media Co-Pilot, an innovative AI-based conversational intervention embedded in an interactive and realistic online learning environment, Social Media TestDrive. The goal of this research is to enhance teen education on safe, responsible, and ethical conduct on the internet through AI-based conversation agents, which have great potential to improve digital literacy and cyber safety education because they can provide personalized, dynamic, and immediate learning guidance and feedback.
The youth social media literacy inventory: development and validation using item response theory in the US
July 24, 2023
Amanda Purington Drake, Philipp K. Masur, Natalie N. Bazarova et al. have developed and validated the Youth Social Media Literacy Inventory, a 90-item bank, that can be used to objectively assess youth’s social media literacy. Due to its excellent psychometric properties, it allows scholars to create scales of varying length and for different research purposes. Educators and researchers can use the inventory to assess the effectiveness of social media literacy interventions; compare levels of social media literacy across groups, schools, or populations; and assess antecedents and consequences of social media literacy.
Cross-cutting initiative to promote AI and digital literacy
November 1, 2022
With funding from CALS and Cornell Bowers CIS, Natalie Bazarova and Qian Yang have founded the Digital and AI Literacy Initiative in an effort to equip underserved communities with the resources to use digital technologies safely and responsibly.