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Young children's everyday concepts of the internet: A platform for cyber-safety education in the early years
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posted on 2018-01-01, 00:00 authored by S Edwards, Andrea NolanAndrea Nolan, M Henderson, A Mantilla, L Plowman, Helen SkouterisYoung 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 cybersafety 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.
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British journal of educational technologyVolume
49Issue
1Pagination
45 - 55Publisher
WileyLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1467-8535eISSN
1467-8535Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2016, British Educational Research AssociationUsage metrics
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