Children and the Web

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Children and the Web

• 99 of Canadian youth have used the Internet
• 80 have Internet access in the home
• 65 prefer the Web over television
• 50 use the Internet one hour or more a week
• These are OLD statistics but clearly the Web is
  part of childrens environment

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Goals for the Course

• Apply what we know about cognitive development to
  understand how children of different ages use the
  Web
• Apply what we know about emotional and social
  development to understand how children of
  different ages use the Web
• Develop critical appraisal skills
• Improve oral and written communication skills

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Organization

• Monday and Wednesday
• Lecture and discussion
• Readings
• Friday
• Web assignments, opportunities to search and
  evaluate Web resources

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Learning Outcomes

• In-class Web assignments
• Develop critical appraisal skills
• Quiz
• Review important concepts of development
• Evaluation project
• Begin to apply what you know about development to
  how children use the Web
• Share with the class
• Project
• Capstone project
• Develop and rationalize a resource

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Grades

• Percentage system
• 92 9
• 86-91 8
• 80-85 7
• 76-79 6
• 70-75 5
• 65-69 4

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Connies Personal Goals

• Learn more about childrens use of the Web
• Consider important issues related to child
  development and the Web
• Help you develop critical appraisal skills
• Help you develop better oral and written
  communication skills
• Explore different instructional methods

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Your experience

• When did you start using computers?
• 6-9 years of age
• 10-12 years of age
• 13-16 years of age
• 17 or older
• What did you use a computer for?
• Word processing
• Entertainment
• Research (statistics, graphics)

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Your experience

• When did you start using the Web?
• 6-9 years of age
• 10-12 years of age
• 13-16 years of age
• 17 or older
• What did you use the Web for?
• Communications
• Entertainment
• Research (information access)

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Your experience

• What do you use computers for now?
• Word processing
• Entertainment
• Research
• How many hours a week?

• What do you use the Web for now?
• Communications
• Entertainment
• Research
• How many hours a week?

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Getting to Know the Web as an Adult

• Structure, function, and history of the Internet
• History, structure, function of the Web

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Structure of the Internet
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Function of the Internet

• Communication
• Packet switching
• Hardware connections
• Physical communication links
• Routers
• Software for communication
• Protocols
• Applications

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History of the Internet

• Need to share information
• ARPA formed in 1950s as response to Russian
  Sputnik
• Packet-switching paper provides the concept in
  1961
• Global connectivity completes the concept in 1962
• PhD programs in computer science develop in 1960s
• ARPA funding develops concept
• Time-sharing computers 1965 MIT - CA
• ARPANET connects UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ. of Utah,
  1969

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History of the Internet

• Growth and expansion in the 1970s
• Protocols developed
• Connections added (overseas in 1973)
• Applications developed (Telnet, Usenet)
• Refinement in the 1980s
• Name server, DNS early 1980s
• NSFNet provides university backbone system
• Internet worm shuts down much on Internet in 1988
• The World Wide Web in the 1990s
• Gopher released in 1991
• CERN introduces the WWW in 1991

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History of the World Wide Web

• Atlantic Monthly article in 1945 on memex
  allowing photoelectronic links between microfiche
  pages
• Various theoretical articles and demonstrations
  using computers 1960-1980s
• Hypertext system, WorldWideWeb, developed in 1990
  using NeXT computers
• Various browsers developed in early 1990s

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Structure of the Web

• Loosely organized, widely distributed,
  interconnected set of resources
• Hypertext (hypermedia)
• Graphical interface with Internet
• HyperText Transfer Protocol
• Standards for transmitting media across the
  Internet
• Uniform Resource Locator
• Standards for locating the media

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Accessing the Web

• Computer
• Internet connection
• Modem
• Communication system
• Internet Service Provider
• Browser
• Browser assistants

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Structure
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Function of the Web

• Information dissemination
• Entertainment
• Communication
• Education
• Research
• Advertisement