Children

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Children Electronic Media

• Negative Relation (mostly defined prev.)
• Childrens vulnerability exploited
• Individuality undermined
• Innocence destroyed
• Parents fear? Nostalgia? Scholars pessimism?
• New Media Technology (i.e.,Computer)
• Powerful media literacy possessed by children
• New opportunities to learn
• For creativity, community, self-fullment

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Nightmares Utopia

• Digital and Interactive
• Computer good?
• Television bad? Prev. AKA teaching machine
• Educational Potentials
• Imitative Violence (with realistic graphics)
• Effects on Imagination and Academic Achievement
• Addition, Anti-Social, Human Interaction
• New Form of Democracy
• Mythology about Children? About Technology?

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Technological Determinism

• Technology is seen to emerge from a neutral
  process of scientific research and development,
  rather than from the interplay of complex social,
  economic and political forces
• Hard sphere transferred to Soft sphere

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Four Key Books

• Growing Up Digital by Tapscott
• The Connected Family by Papert
• Virtuous Reality by Katz
• Playing the Future by Rushkoff
• Postman
• Dearh of childhood
• Powerful media influence children
• Authors above
• Mirroring death of childhood
• Powerful children empowered by new media
  technology

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Optimism about Digital

• Democratization
• Freedom of choice expression
• Openness
• Innovation
• Collaboration

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Things to Consider

• Technology-Rich vs. Technology Poor
• Equipment?
• Social Structure?
• Technical Expertise?
• Pedagogical Perspectives?
• Democracy or More Surveillance?
• New Technology New Learning?
• Natural Wisdom of Youth?
• Evolution of the Species?