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The connected child: tracing digital literacy from school to leisure
Anne Mette Bjørgen,Ola Erstad +1 more
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In this article, the authors study how young students make sense of the connections and disconnections of digital practices between school and leisure, by using New Literacy Studies as a frame of reference.Abstract:
This article directs attention to how young students make sense of the connections and disconnections of digital practices between school and leisure. By using New Literacy Studies as a frame of reference, we study how students’ conceptions of digital literacies and their positional identities are defined across school and home. In contrast to most other studies of similar issues, we study children in the age range from 9 to 13 years old. The methods used are qualitative interviews and video observations of these students at three Norwegian primary schools. The analysis shows how various digital practices in the classroom become meaningful in the translation to leisure time. We discuss how digital practices initiated in the classroom may be relevant to students’ out-of-school worlds, based on how they get opportunities to unite and translate practices between these two contexts. This has to do with how school’s digital practices may be important in connecting identities across contexts. We argue that the ...read more
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Digital Games as a Context for Children's Cognitive Development: Research Recommendations and Policy Considerations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the need to examine digital game play and app use as a context for cognitive development, particularly during middle childhood, and provide recommendations for the types of research that developmental scientists can undertake to examine the efficacy of digital games within the rapidly changing media ecology in which children live.
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