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Key areas of children’s digital lives: Opportunities and benefits
This section addresses theories and concepts for analysing children’s engagement with digital technologies and the beneficial opportunities it affords. This encompasses:
Internet engagement
Participation and activism
Information and exploration
Play, creativity, fun
It offers resources (key readings, webinars, expert interviews, blogs) that can help you understand better this area of children's digital lives.
Resources related to this area
Blog, Webinar
Theories webinar series : Online opportunities for children
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Theories : Theorising online opportunities for children: learning, play and civic participation
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Theories : John Hartley on theory-making, digital media, and children from a cultural point of view
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Theories : Amanda Third on changing normative perspectives on children’s digital lives
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Theories : On the concepts we use and what theory is good for
CO:RE resources
- The changing role of digital learning environments during/after the COVID-19 pandemic– on resilience and online learning (by Jussi Okkonen) The changing role of digital learning environments during/after the COVID-19 pandemic– on resilience and online learning (by Jussi Okkonen)
- TikTok, tweens and influencers: exploring children’s digital playgrounds – on the variety of online opportunities, from modern karaoke to digital activism (by Fardus Sultan and Valerie Gannon) TikTok, tweens and influencers: exploring children’s digital playgrounds – on the variety of online opportunities, from modern karaoke to digital activism (by Fardus Sultan and Valerie Gannon)
External resources
- Simply psychology – an open-access resource with detailed overviews of key theories and thinkers in psychology and related sub-disciplines, including child development, social psychology, criminology, cognitive psychology, and learning theories Simply psychology – an open-access resource with detailed overviews of key theories and thinkers in psychology and related sub-disciplines, including child development, social psychology, criminology, cognitive psychology, and learning theories
- Oxford bibliographies – an open-access resource with short introductions and reading lists on key concepts and theories in a number of disciplines, including media and communication, sociology, psychology, childhood studies, critical theory, education, criminology Oxford bibliographies – an open-access resource with short introductions and reading lists on key concepts and theories in a number of disciplines, including media and communication, sociology, psychology, childhood studies, critical theory, education, criminology
- Wiktionary: a multilingual dictionary (by Wikimedia) Wiktionary: a multilingual dictionary (by Wikimedia)
- MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms (by Mozilla) MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms (by Mozilla)
- A list of encyclopaedias: a collation of encyclopaedia links (by RefSeek) A list of encyclopaedias: a collation of encyclopaedia links (by RefSeek)
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