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Meaning-Making and Digital Languages. Technology as a Creative and Expressive Language: New Research
The digital environment is often offered to children as a tool to find and consume information and as a fun and interactive way to develop skills and techniques though games. Often, iPads are used by teachers in increasing ways for assessment systems and record keeping – a one stop shop for teaching and measuring. For…
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Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Dakar
Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Senegal I have blogged before about the nature of Intelligent Materials – the idea that materials have inherent qualities and are neither neutral or devoid of suggestion or empathy with certain kinds of ideas and ways of using them. Here in Senegal, or rather…
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Journeys into Learning: Rhizomes and Reggio Emilia
Rhizomes and Reggio Emilia Many of you who read my blog will have noticed how I refer to the rhizome as a pattern in which I see learning happening in both children and adults. (Deleuze and Guttarri). It is akin to how the internet works – a way of jumping and landing on different pads…
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Pedagogy of the Digital World
My current area of research is upon the creative and expressive uses of digital languages and tools in the early childhood arena of education. For children with whom I am working with now, they are immersed into this digital rich context of social media, coding, research, platforms, and hacks, where books are downloaded and games…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 