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Emily Connected
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Emily Connected - Homo sapienes continuus
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Presentation to the Handheld Learning Conference, London, October 2007.
- by Robert Hart
Working with DfES and Becta, Intuitive Media carried out extensive research into how children behave and learn in protected online social networks. The research included observation of the behaviour of over 120,000 children, direct online consultation with over 12,000 children who took part in a series of research surveys and the detailed profiling of 8 children. Here Robert Hart, distils what IM have learned through the profile of a single a ten year old from the midlands.
Emily Sanderson, likes to work slower than other kids in her class and would choose do easier work, but once online she turns into Emily Connected, a communications hurricane!
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The study looks at Emily in relation to other children in the online community her online experience and activity, her productivity, how she engages her peers, her contribution, her capabilities and achievements, her sociability one to one and in groups, her circle of friends local and countrywide, her socialization, her personal and social learning at school, at home and on the move.
This is the story of one little girl in 120,000, that gives some clues to how online connectivity is changing children’s lives and the emergence of H. sapiens continuus The Connected Ape.
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