Rik Smit
Biographic Data
| ID | 367682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rik Smit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rik |
| FAMILY NAME | Smit |
| SIGNATURE | SMIT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9809-9656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What explains the motivation of primary pre-service teachers at Swiss teacher universities to learn outdoor teaching?
If outdoor learning is beneficial for children’s development but teachers are mainly unfamiliar with the concept of outdoor teaching (OT), it is necessary to integrate it in teacher education. However, outdoor courses are not widely offered in teacher education and generally not mandatory, so for such courses to be taken, they must be actively chosen by pre-service teachers. To better understand the motivation behind learning OT, we asked pre-ser…
Less Hype, More Drama: Open-Ended Technological Inevitability in Journalistic Discourses About AI in the US, The Netherlands, and Brazil
This article examines the portrayal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in journalistic discourses, nuancing assumptions that such coverage constitutes systematic media hype. Building on Pfaffenberger’s (Citation1992) concept of technological drama, we conducted a qualitative textual analysis of AI coverage in three newspapers of record—The New York Times (US), De Volkskrant (Netherlands), and Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil)—focusing on the period between …
Using the socioscientific issue approach to foster secondary students’ argumentation skills, science self-efficacy beliefs and science interest
Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended social problems with substantive connections to science. They represent the kind of situations in which many people must decide between different perspectives and decisions. Therefore, using these issues in formal science education provides an ideal approach for promoting scientific literacy and moral education. We designed a series of seven lessons that aimed to build relevant skills in young people s…
Small-Scale Entrepreneurship on the Early Web: Socio-Economical Practices of Local/Regional Businesses
The paper explores small-scale entrepreneurship on the early web, specifically identifying socio-economical practices of local/regional business in the Netherlands during the emergence of the new economy in the mid-90s and early 2000s. The new economy has been described in prior research as not only a novel, financial system but also as a cultural shift. Public media highlight the widespread optimism and subsequent disillusionment of the dot-com …
Experiencing enjoyment in visual programming tasks promotes self‐efficacy and reduces the gender gap
Secondary school students ( N = 269) participated in a daylong visual programming course held in a stimulating environment for start‐up enterprises. The tasks were application‐oriented and partly creative. For example, a wearable device with light‐emitting diodes, (ie, LEDs) could be applied to a T‐shirt and used for optical messages. Our research questions related to the control‐value model of achievement emotions. We measured experienced enjoym…
Devising DigiD: The performativity of sociotechnical imaginaries in national digital identity systems
Digital identity systems serve as essential gateways to public services in digital-by-default societies, yet they are often overlooked or regarded as ‘neutral’ tools. We argue, however, that these systems are shaped by sociotechnical imaginaries that influence both policy and technological design. This paper examines how such imaginaries inform and justify the development of national digital identity systems, using the Dutch ‘DigiD’ system as a c…
Teachers’ attitudes towards and perceptions of diverse practices of differentiated instruction
General and special needs teachers in Austria and Switzerland met four times locally and three times binationally to develop their inclusive teaching. Based on video clips of their own lessons, differentiated instruction (DI) practices were discussed. The twelve teachers were interviewed to find out more about their attitudes towards DI practices. A mixed-methods research design was employed to investigate the occurrence of DI practices and the e…
I’d rather have memories that I can actually hold on to’: How young adults use and experience algorithmic memory technologies
Whereas the growing body of research into algorithmic memory technologies and the platformisation of memory has a media-centric approach, this article engages with the question of how users experience and make sense of such omnipresent technologies. By means of a questionnaire and follow-up qualitative interviews with young adults (born between 1997 and 2005) and a Grounded Theory approach, we empirically examine an object of study that has been …
Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reached memory studies in earnest. This partly reflects the hype around recent developments in generative AI (genAI), machine learning, and large language models (LLMs). But how can memory studies scholars handle this hype? Focusing on genAI applications, in particular so-called ‘chatbots’ (transformer-based instruction-tuned text generators), this commentary highlights five areas of critique that can help memory …
The role of momentary emotions in promoting error learning orientation among lower secondary school students: An intervention study embedded in a short visual programming course
BackgroundStudents make many errors in visual programming. In order to learn from these, it is important that students regulate their emotions and view errors as learning opportunities.AimsThis study aimed to explore to what extent momentary emotions, specifically enjoyment, anxiety and boredom, as well as the error learning orientation of students, interacted during a 1-day course on visual programming in an out-of-school learning environment.Sa…
Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency: Recalling Twentieth Century Activists with ChatGPT
This paper introduces the concept of stochastic remembering and uses two prompt engineering techniques to critically examine the text generated by ai chatbots. These techniques – step-by-step prompting and chain of thought reasoning – are then experimentally applied to understand how ChatGPT, the most commonly used ai chatbot, shapes how we remember historical activists. This experiment suggests that hegemonic forms of memory influence the data o…
Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram
This article investigates the ways in which Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists discursively engage with the past, present and future on Instagram and leverage the platform’s affordances for mnemonic purposes. We argue that Extinction Rebellion activists, in their communication on the platform, connect these temporal planes retrospectively and prospectively. First, Extinction Rebellion activists use the past as a resource for present action aime…
The multiplicities of platformed remembering
Introduction to the special collection on the platformization of memory
Revolutionary Discourses in a Time Capsule: A Historiographical Analysis of Canonical, Intellectual Literature Concerning the Social Impact and Significance of the Internet
Whilst the internet’s development can be traced back to the 1940s (Turner, 2006; Flichy 2015), the rhetoric of a digital revolution primarily emerged during the early 1990s and mid-00s and was often produced by the US-based academic community which has been intrinsically involved with the advancement of the internet. The dominant conceptualizations put forward in their popular, scholarly writings about the technology’s past and future, became aut…
Noticing inclusive teaching practices in tandems – results from cross-national video clubs at two different school levels
Inclusive teaching practices are increasingly encouraged in many countries, but there are still some difficulties with respect to the professional development of co-working general and special-needs teachers. We used video clubs as a promising tool to enhance Austrian and Swiss teachers' competencies in noticing core features of their own inclusive teaching. Eight general and special-needs teachers met three times locally and once in a cross-nati…
Interactions of Feelings of Competence and Motivation of Pre-Service Science Teachers in Their Laboratory Course: A Dynamic Multilevel Modeling Approach
Dynamic structural equation modeling was applied to examine feelings of competence and in the moment motivation among pre-service science teachers ( N = 101) enrolled in a course on practical biology during their second semester. The student teachers completed a short questionnaire 18 times, and the interaction between their feelings of competence and momentary motivation over time was examined in relation to control-value theory. The autoregress…
Moonwalking together: Tracing Redditors’ digital memory work on Michael Jackson
This article investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on Reddit. By means of their posts, comments, and replies, people contributing to this site – Redditors – enter into a process we call mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. We argue that this process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called moonwalking: Redditors seem to…
Connective Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
Explaining Secondary Students’ Career Intentions for Technology and Engineering Jobs Using an Expectancy-Value Model
This research presents an empirical model based on expectancy-value theory to explain students’ attitudes towards science-based technology. The question is how students’ attitudes are connected with their aspirations for a career in the technology and engineering fields. There is a high demand for technology professionals, but students’ interest in such careers is low. The context of this study is a cooperation project involving local industry an…
Moonwalking: Tracing Redditors’ Digital Memory Work on Michael Jackson
This paper investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on the social content aggregation site Reddit. By means of their posts, comments and replies, people contributing to this site—Redditors—enter into a process we call the dynamics of mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. This process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called…
Die Sicht der Eltern zum altersgemischten Lernen im St. Galler Schulentwicklungsprojekt zu «Schule im alpinen Raum»
Eltern sind wichtige Partner bei Schulentwicklungsprojekten, besonders wenn bei einer heterogenen Schülerschaft Massnahmen des altersgemischten Lernens (AdL) und der inneren Differenzierung zur Erhaltung von kleinen alpinen Schulstandorten beabsichtigt werden. Mittels Fragebogen wird die Haltung von 682 Eltern aus 19 Schulen zu Aspekten eines entsprechenden Unterrichts untersucht.Die inferenzstatistische Datenanalyse erfolgte mit Mittelwertsvergl…
Activating the past in the Ferguson protests: Memory work, digital activism and the politics of platforms
This article analyzes the Facebook page Justice for Mike Brown -set up during the 2014 Ferguson protests-in order to rethink the role of memory work within contemporary digital activism. We argue that, as a particular type of discursive practice, memory work on the page bridged personal and collective action frames. This occurred in four overlapping ways. First, the page allowed for affective commemorative engagement that helped shape Brown's pub…
Witnessing in the new memory ecology: Memory construction of the Syrian conflict on YouTube
With the pervasiveness of mobile technologies, witnesses have the opportunity to mediate up-close and seemingly truthful recordings of events. As such, “witness videos” have become prominent in news reports and serve as authoritative resources in the construction of memory. However, once they are uploaded to video-sharing sites and popular archives such as YouTube, they are being reassembled and remixed by distinct actors, along the lines of thei…
Assuring the quality of standards-oriented classroom assessment with rubrics for complex competencies
Differentiated instruction in small schools
Activating the past in the Ferguson protests: Memory work, digital activism and the politics of platforms
This article analyzes the Facebook page Justice for Mike Brown -set up during the 2014 Ferguson protests-in order to rethink the role of memory work within contemporary digital activism. We argue that, as a particular type of discursive practice, memory work on the page bridged personal and collective action frames. This occurred in four overlapping ways. First, the page allowed for affective commemorative engagement that helped shape Brown's pub…
Witnessing in the new memory ecology: Memory construction of the Syrian conflict on YouTube
With the pervasiveness of mobile technologies, witnesses have the opportunity to mediate up-close and seemingly truthful recordings of events. As such, “witness videos” have become prominent in news reports and serve as authoritative resources in the construction of memory. However, once they are uploaded to video-sharing sites and popular archives such as YouTube, they are being reassembled and remixed by distinct actors, along the lines of thei…
Differentiated instruction in small schools
The multiplicities of platformed remembering
Introduction to the special collection on the platformization of memory
The role of momentary emotions in promoting error learning orientation among lower secondary school students: An intervention study embedded in a short visual programming course
BackgroundStudents make many errors in visual programming. In order to learn from these, it is important that students regulate their emotions and view errors as learning opportunities.AimsThis study aimed to explore to what extent momentary emotions, specifically enjoyment, anxiety and boredom, as well as the error learning orientation of students, interacted during a 1-day course on visual programming in an out-of-school learning environment.Sa…
I’d rather have memories that I can actually hold on to’: How young adults use and experience algorithmic memory technologies
Whereas the growing body of research into algorithmic memory technologies and the platformisation of memory has a media-centric approach, this article engages with the question of how users experience and make sense of such omnipresent technologies. By means of a questionnaire and follow-up qualitative interviews with young adults (born between 1997 and 2005) and a Grounded Theory approach, we empirically examine an object of study that has been …
Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram
This article investigates the ways in which Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists discursively engage with the past, present and future on Instagram and leverage the platform’s affordances for mnemonic purposes. We argue that Extinction Rebellion activists, in their communication on the platform, connect these temporal planes retrospectively and prospectively. First, Extinction Rebellion activists use the past as a resource for present action aime…
Differentiated instruction in small schools
Assuring the quality of standards-oriented classroom assessment with rubrics for complex competencies
Witnessing in the new memory ecology: Memory construction of the Syrian conflict on YouTube
With the pervasiveness of mobile technologies, witnesses have the opportunity to mediate up-close and seemingly truthful recordings of events. As such, “witness videos” have become prominent in news reports and serve as authoritative resources in the construction of memory. However, once they are uploaded to video-sharing sites and popular archives such as YouTube, they are being reassembled and remixed by distinct actors, along the lines of thei…
Activating the past in the Ferguson protests: Memory work, digital activism and the politics of platforms
This article analyzes the Facebook page Justice for Mike Brown -set up during the 2014 Ferguson protests-in order to rethink the role of memory work within contemporary digital activism. We argue that, as a particular type of discursive practice, memory work on the page bridged personal and collective action frames. This occurred in four overlapping ways. First, the page allowed for affective commemorative engagement that helped shape Brown's pub…
Die Sicht der Eltern zum altersgemischten Lernen im St. Galler Schulentwicklungsprojekt zu «Schule im alpinen Raum»
Eltern sind wichtige Partner bei Schulentwicklungsprojekten, besonders wenn bei einer heterogenen Schülerschaft Massnahmen des altersgemischten Lernens (AdL) und der inneren Differenzierung zur Erhaltung von kleinen alpinen Schulstandorten beabsichtigt werden. Mittels Fragebogen wird die Haltung von 682 Eltern aus 19 Schulen zu Aspekten eines entsprechenden Unterrichts untersucht.Die inferenzstatistische Datenanalyse erfolgte mit Mittelwertsvergl…
Connective Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
Explaining Secondary Students’ Career Intentions for Technology and Engineering Jobs Using an Expectancy-Value Model
This research presents an empirical model based on expectancy-value theory to explain students’ attitudes towards science-based technology. The question is how students’ attitudes are connected with their aspirations for a career in the technology and engineering fields. There is a high demand for technology professionals, but students’ interest in such careers is low. The context of this study is a cooperation project involving local industry an…
Moonwalking: Tracing Redditors’ Digital Memory Work on Michael Jackson
This paper investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on the social content aggregation site Reddit. By means of their posts, comments and replies, people contributing to this site—Redditors—enter into a process we call the dynamics of mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. This process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called…
Interactions of Feelings of Competence and Motivation of Pre-Service Science Teachers in Their Laboratory Course: A Dynamic Multilevel Modeling Approach
Dynamic structural equation modeling was applied to examine feelings of competence and in the moment motivation among pre-service science teachers ( N = 101) enrolled in a course on practical biology during their second semester. The student teachers completed a short questionnaire 18 times, and the interaction between their feelings of competence and momentary motivation over time was examined in relation to control-value theory. The autoregress…
Moonwalking together: Tracing Redditors’ digital memory work on Michael Jackson
This article investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on Reddit. By means of their posts, comments, and replies, people contributing to this site – Redditors – enter into a process we call mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. We argue that this process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called moonwalking: Redditors seem to…
Noticing inclusive teaching practices in tandems – results from cross-national video clubs at two different school levels
Inclusive teaching practices are increasingly encouraged in many countries, but there are still some difficulties with respect to the professional development of co-working general and special-needs teachers. We used video clubs as a promising tool to enhance Austrian and Swiss teachers' competencies in noticing core features of their own inclusive teaching. Eight general and special-needs teachers met three times locally and once in a cross-nati…
Revolutionary Discourses in a Time Capsule: A Historiographical Analysis of Canonical, Intellectual Literature Concerning the Social Impact and Significance of the Internet
Whilst the internet’s development can be traced back to the 1940s (Turner, 2006; Flichy 2015), the rhetoric of a digital revolution primarily emerged during the early 1990s and mid-00s and was often produced by the US-based academic community which has been intrinsically involved with the advancement of the internet. The dominant conceptualizations put forward in their popular, scholarly writings about the technology’s past and future, became aut…
Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency: Recalling Twentieth Century Activists with ChatGPT
This paper introduces the concept of stochastic remembering and uses two prompt engineering techniques to critically examine the text generated by ai chatbots. These techniques – step-by-step prompting and chain of thought reasoning – are then experimentally applied to understand how ChatGPT, the most commonly used ai chatbot, shapes how we remember historical activists. This experiment suggests that hegemonic forms of memory influence the data o…
Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram
This article investigates the ways in which Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists discursively engage with the past, present and future on Instagram and leverage the platform’s affordances for mnemonic purposes. We argue that Extinction Rebellion activists, in their communication on the platform, connect these temporal planes retrospectively and prospectively. First, Extinction Rebellion activists use the past as a resource for present action aime…
The multiplicities of platformed remembering
Introduction to the special collection on the platformization of memory
Small-Scale Entrepreneurship on the Early Web: Socio-Economical Practices of Local/Regional Businesses
The paper explores small-scale entrepreneurship on the early web, specifically identifying socio-economical practices of local/regional business in the Netherlands during the emergence of the new economy in the mid-90s and early 2000s. The new economy has been described in prior research as not only a novel, financial system but also as a cultural shift. Public media highlight the widespread optimism and subsequent disillusionment of the dot-com …
Experiencing enjoyment in visual programming tasks promotes self‐efficacy and reduces the gender gap
Secondary school students ( N = 269) participated in a daylong visual programming course held in a stimulating environment for start‐up enterprises. The tasks were application‐oriented and partly creative. For example, a wearable device with light‐emitting diodes, (ie, LEDs) could be applied to a T‐shirt and used for optical messages. Our research questions related to the control‐value model of achievement emotions. We measured experienced enjoym…
Devising DigiD: The performativity of sociotechnical imaginaries in national digital identity systems
Digital identity systems serve as essential gateways to public services in digital-by-default societies, yet they are often overlooked or regarded as ‘neutral’ tools. We argue, however, that these systems are shaped by sociotechnical imaginaries that influence both policy and technological design. This paper examines how such imaginaries inform and justify the development of national digital identity systems, using the Dutch ‘DigiD’ system as a c…
Teachers’ attitudes towards and perceptions of diverse practices of differentiated instruction
General and special needs teachers in Austria and Switzerland met four times locally and three times binationally to develop their inclusive teaching. Based on video clips of their own lessons, differentiated instruction (DI) practices were discussed. The twelve teachers were interviewed to find out more about their attitudes towards DI practices. A mixed-methods research design was employed to investigate the occurrence of DI practices and the e…
I’d rather have memories that I can actually hold on to’: How young adults use and experience algorithmic memory technologies
Whereas the growing body of research into algorithmic memory technologies and the platformisation of memory has a media-centric approach, this article engages with the question of how users experience and make sense of such omnipresent technologies. By means of a questionnaire and follow-up qualitative interviews with young adults (born between 1997 and 2005) and a Grounded Theory approach, we empirically examine an object of study that has been …
Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reached memory studies in earnest. This partly reflects the hype around recent developments in generative AI (genAI), machine learning, and large language models (LLMs). But how can memory studies scholars handle this hype? Focusing on genAI applications, in particular so-called ‘chatbots’ (transformer-based instruction-tuned text generators), this commentary highlights five areas of critique that can help memory …
The role of momentary emotions in promoting error learning orientation among lower secondary school students: An intervention study embedded in a short visual programming course
BackgroundStudents make many errors in visual programming. In order to learn from these, it is important that students regulate their emotions and view errors as learning opportunities.AimsThis study aimed to explore to what extent momentary emotions, specifically enjoyment, anxiety and boredom, as well as the error learning orientation of students, interacted during a 1-day course on visual programming in an out-of-school learning environment.Sa…
What explains the motivation of primary pre-service teachers at Swiss teacher universities to learn outdoor teaching?
If outdoor learning is beneficial for children’s development but teachers are mainly unfamiliar with the concept of outdoor teaching (OT), it is necessary to integrate it in teacher education. However, outdoor courses are not widely offered in teacher education and generally not mandatory, so for such courses to be taken, they must be actively chosen by pre-service teachers. To better understand the motivation behind learning OT, we asked pre-ser…
Less Hype, More Drama: Open-Ended Technological Inevitability in Journalistic Discourses About AI in the US, The Netherlands, and Brazil
This article examines the portrayal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in journalistic discourses, nuancing assumptions that such coverage constitutes systematic media hype. Building on Pfaffenberger’s (Citation1992) concept of technological drama, we conducted a qualitative textual analysis of AI coverage in three newspapers of record—The New York Times (US), De Volkskrant (Netherlands), and Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil)—focusing on the period between …
Using the socioscientific issue approach to foster secondary students’ argumentation skills, science self-efficacy beliefs and science interest
Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended social problems with substantive connections to science. They represent the kind of situations in which many people must decide between different perspectives and decisions. Therefore, using these issues in formal science education provides an ideal approach for promoting scientific literacy and moral education. We designed a series of seven lessons that aimed to build relevant skills in young people s…
Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)