{"id":495,"date":"2018-10-24T14:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmenzice.wordpress.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:34:57","slug":"me-my-son-and-the-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/2018\/10\/24\/me-my-son-and-the-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Me, my son and the digital world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/24\/me-my-son-and-the-digital-world\/table\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=1100\" data-orig-size=\"940,529\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Table\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=1100?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=1100?w=940\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=1100\" alt=\"Table\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg 940w, https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/carmenzice.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/table.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\"   \/>The computer. My biggest friend, and my biggest enemy, a source of daily bread and a source of daily conflict. The digital world has impacted my life, my family, our home in a very strong way and this impact will only increase!<\/p>\n<p>Almost everybody I know who has children fights nowadays against computer addiction, mostly game-addiction. I also try to limit it because I know it hurts the eyes and the little body shouldn\u2019t sit so long. Although I also see its benefits every single day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so good mom! I love playing it, the graphics, listen to the music!&#8221; Every 6 months is a new favorite game and I am amazed how children get in touch with other children from all over the world in a second&#8230; They don\u2019t know each other but that\u2019s not a problem. They don\u2019t know each others names, (it\u2019s the nickname that counts) but they get to start a new project every 15 minutes by themselves! \u201cWhere do we go?\u201d my son is asking suddenly in his headphones and then I know that a new adventure starts on his computer in that very moment. The unknown game partner(s) might be trustable or one that can \u201ckill\u201d him. Sometimes he plays with his own class-colleagues and sometimes is random children. Interesting how they choose partners of the same age according to voices.<\/p>\n<p>What a learning environment! A lot of laughter, some disappointments that vanish quick and a continuous resistance to mothers saying, \u201cyou need a pause, close it now or I cut off the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He notices that in some countries children have more lessons to do than he does (kids don\u2019t have so much &#8220;computer time\u201d), that in some families there are strict rules and that others kids stay at different parents each week. And he reflects about all these and draws his own conclusions. And I encourage him to reflect (this is the \u201cfault\u201d of the pedagogy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltu.se\/org\/hpc\/Var-verksamhet\/Kurser\/Behorighetsgivande-hogskolepedagogisk-kurs-1-1.148487?l=en\">course<\/a> I took last year ).\u00a0And now that\u2019s my conflict: I try to stop something that is eventually fascinating! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/wpcom-smileys\/twemoji\/2\/72x72\/1f60a.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To make you understand, I am not a teacher (although I&#8217;d wish) so I am practicing all the learning knowledge I have on my sons.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s compare now his childhood with my childhood. I was reading a lot, submerging myself in scenarios prepared by other people. I also liked to write and would compose my own stories but I was kind of alone in this.\u00a0\u00a0I was going to a private English class, only me and a nice teacher, it wasn\u2019t so much fun just me and her&#8230; And look at my son, practicing English every day without anyone asking him to do this, struggling to write correctly and learning new words from kids from any country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong but this game my son plays is an open network learning platform and children are training many of the 8 skills of digital literacies that Doug Bradshow is describing in his book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frysklab.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Essential-Elements-of-Digital-Literacies-v1.0.pdf\">The essential elements of digital literacies.<\/a> (1)<\/p>\n<p>The teachers which these children will have in university&#8230; Let\u2019s imagine I am supposed to be my son\u2019s teacher. I hadn\u2019t spent all these hours he did playing, he has different habits than I had. This generation has so different habits, which one should adapt to whom? I try to make a compromise,\u00a0he reads some book pages every day and I get interested in his activity (haven&#8217;t started to play yet!)<\/p>\n<p>After closing this Topic1 in our ONL course I now realize that we both need to reach higher or deeper stages in our digital worlds. One of the favourite learning framework we discussed in that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltu.se\/org\/hpc\/Var-verksamhet\/Kurser\/Behorighetsgivande-hogskolepedagogisk-kurs-1-1.148487?l=en\">course<\/a> last year was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00461520.2014.965823?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\">ICAP<\/a> (2) (read at least the abstract if you have the chance). It is a sensitive border here, although games are making my son be &#8220;active&#8221; and &#8220;interract&#8221; within the community he is still only a consumer. I am not sure if he is capable to &#8220;remix&#8221; in the sense that Doug Bradshow describes remix as &#8220;the heart of digital literacies&#8221; as I am not sure if the students I am going to teach one day get to be constructive and interactive if I don\u2019t engage them to get to these levels. I do wonder if Doug\u2019s belief that \u201cthe way to develop digital literacies is by remixing\u201d can be connected to the co-inferring process ICAP framework.\u00a0It can certainly be connected to reaching the top of the pyramid in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linkinglearningoutcomestoassessments.wordpress.com\/bloomstaxonomy\/\">Bloom\u2019s taxonomy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if both me and my son would start a basic course in &#8220;media production&#8221;, would we be able to get from the stage of passive\u00a0users to creators, generating something new, a product?<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I heard someone saying\u00a0the following about communication channels: \u201cPeople show only positive things pictures on Instagram while all complains, all negativism comes out when writing on Twitter and on blogs\u201d. I guess I have to wait for another topic for writing complains, at least towards the institution I am affiliated to, because they did prepare us assiduously for using digital tools and as I see they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltu.se\/org\/hpc\/IT-i-undervisning?l=en\">keep on doing it.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A list of the cited references, already linked in this post:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Belshaw, Doug. The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. <em>Selfpublished<\/em>,<br \/>\n2014. Digital file. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalliteraci.es\/&#038;gt\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/digitalliteraci.es\/&#038;gt<\/a>;. [24-10-2018]<\/li>\n<li>Chi, Michelene TH, and Ruth Wylie. &#8220;The ICAP framework: Linking cognitive engagement to active learning outcomes.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Educational Psychologist<\/em>\u00a049.4 (2014): 219-243.<\/li>\n<li>Picture from Jay Kunwar (pexels.com)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The computer. My biggest friend, and my biggest enemy, a source of daily bread and a source of daily conflict. The digital world has impacted my life, my family, our home in a very strong way and this impact will only increase! Almost everybody I know who has children fights nowadays against computer addiction, mostly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carmenzice.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/24\/me-my-son-and-the-digital-world\/\">Continue reading <span>Me, my son and the digital&nbsp;world<\/span> <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}