Young children's everyday concepts of the internet: a platform for cyber-safety education in the early years
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Edwards, Susan, Nolan, Andrea, Henderson, Michael, Mantilla, Ana, Plowman, Lydia and Skouteris, Helen. (2018). Young children's everyday concepts of the internet: a platform for cyber-safety education in the early years. British Journal of Educational Technology. 49(1), pp. 45 - 55. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12529
Authors | Edwards, Susan, Nolan, Andrea, Henderson, Michael, Mantilla, Ana, Plowman, Lydia and Skouteris, Helen |
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Abstract | Young children from around the world are accessing the internet in ever increasing numbers. The rapid increase in internet activity by children aged 4–5 years in particular is due to the ease access enabled them by touchscreen internet‐enabled tablet technologies. With young children now online, often independently of adult supervision, the need for early childhood cyber‐safety education is becoming urgent. In this paper, we report the early findings from a project aimed at examining the development of cyber‐safety education for young children. We argue that cyber‐safety education for young children cannot be effectively developed without first considering young children's thinking about the internet. In this paper, we use Vygotsky's ideas about the development of mature concepts from the merging of everyday and scientific concepts. We identify the potential range of everyday concepts likely to form the basis of young children's thinking about the internet as a platform for cyber‐safety education in the early years. |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | British Journal of Educational Technology |
Journal citation | 49 (1), pp. 45 - 55 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
ISSN | 0007-1013 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12529 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85040323276 |
Page range | 45 - 55 |
Research Group | Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Editors | S. Hennessy, C. Girvan and M. Mavrikis, S. Pric and N. Winters |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/870wv/young-children-s-everyday-concepts-of-the-internet-a-platform-for-cyber-safety-education-in-the-early-years
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