Digital Beginnings: Responding to games consoles, the internet and mobile phones

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Digital BeginningsResponding to games
consoles,the internet and mobile phones

• CHAIR
• Rowland Constantine Headmaster, The New Beacon,
  Sevenoaks
• Chairman, IAPS
• SPEAKERS
• Hannah Green Head of Families Programme, Demos
• Celia Hannon Researcher, Demos

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Their Space Digital Beginnings Hannah
Green Celia Hannon
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who we work with...
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what do we mean by digital media?

• Blogs Web log, often taking the form of an
  online diary
• Flickr Photo sharing website supporting
• Bebo Social networking site for younger users
• Web 2.0 Second generation of internet services
  emphasising collaboration (e.g. Wikipedia)
  allowing users to build connections with each
  other.
• Gaming eg. World of Warcraft, Multi-player
  online games

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Their Space the basics.

• Primary research interviews, focus groups and
  diaries tracking media consumption with children
  aged 8-18 in formal and informal settings.
  Polling of 600 parents
• Secondary research sessions with experts across
  the fields of academia, policy making, education
  and digital production
• Desk based literature review to shape and
  complement the research

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headline messages young people

• New technologies have been normalised, this
  generation has a different relationship to
  information
• Two bands of young people operating at different
  level
• Everyday Communicators and Digital Pioneers
• Everyday digital practices promote important
  skills from collaboration, creativity,
  communication to technical confidence
• Knowledge is transferred horizontally and the
  formal system is not keeping pace

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headline messages parents

• Only 50 of parents chose lessons as the most
  important way their child learns.
• 2/3 of parents think their child is building
  their general knowledge through their use of
  technology.
• Fathers more positive - 47 of men believe their
  child was developing their creativity when using
  technology compared to 40 of women.
• 47 thought children should have space within the
  education system to showcase creative digital
  work.

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countering some important myths

• Moral Panic
• Versus
• Digital Faith

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myths and misconceptions

• Moral panic
• The internet is too dangerous for young people
• Junk culture is poisoning young peoples lives
• Young people are apathetic
• No learning happens, they are a waste of time
• The internet makes you cheat
• A generation of passive consumers

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myths and misconceptions

• Digital faith
• Revolutionary power of new technologies
• Were all digital natives now
• All gaming is good

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Its the knowledge economy, stupid
In 2020 our biggest exports will be health,
education and the creative industries. In the
global age we cannot afford to waste the talent
of one single individual. Gordon Brown 2006
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digital pioneers

• Set of characteristics that are common to the
  experiences of many young people and their out of
  school learning
• Self-motivation
• Ownership
• Purposeful creativity
• Peer to peer learning

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learning from pioneering schools

• A number of innovative schools are starting to
  recognise the
• potential of these drivers for their pupils.
• There are common ways of working that underpin
  these
• responses and make them successful and sensitive
  to the
• principles of informal learning

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learning from pioneering schools

• A number of innovative schools are starting to
  recognise the
• potential of these drivers for their pupils.
• There are common ways of working that underpin
  these
• responses and make them successful and sensitive
  to the
• principles of informal learning
• Leadership

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learning from pioneering schools

• A number of innovative schools are starting to
  recognise the
• potential of these drivers for their pupils.
• There are common ways of working that underpin
  these
• responses and make them successful and sensitive
  to the
• principles of informal learning
• Leadership
• Empowered teachers

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learning from pioneering schools

• A number of innovative schools are starting to
  recognise the
• potential of these drivers for their pupils.
• There are common ways of working that underpin
  these
• responses and make them successful and sensitive
  to the
• principles of informal learning
• Leadership
• Empowered teachers
• Fully integrated technology

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start with people not PCs
Invest in relationships and networks rather than
just hardware
Reconnecting with learners
Bridging two worlds
The new digital divide
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an agenda for change

• Policy makers
• Combating the traditional digital divide
• Capacity building and consultation with parents
• Control of the creative portfolio
• Users as designers student voice
• Bringing coursework and homework into the 21st
  century

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an agenda for change

• School Leaders
• Reverse IT tuition
• Peer-to-peer IT tuition
• Digitally literate teachers and lecturers
• Cool tools monitor
• Del.icio.us for schools
• A class wiki

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Thank you!

• For any questions or for further information
  about Demos please contact us
• hannah.green_at_demos.co.uk
• celia.hannon_at_demos.co.uk
• 0207 367 6320

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Digital BeginningsResponding to games
consoles,the internet and mobile phones

• CHAIR
• Rowland Constantine Headmaster, The New Beacon,
  Sevenoaks
• Chairman, IAPS
• SPEAKERS
• Hannah Green Head of Families Programme, Demos
• Celia Hannon Researcher, Demos

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