Summary
Contents
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Education Studies continues to grow as a popular undergraduate area of study. This core text addresses themes common to all Education Studies courses. It benefits from a large list of chapters from key contributors at key institutions. This third edition has been completely revised and updated with the addition of seven new chapters. Themes newly explored include gender, research, the power of money and status and alternatives to schooling. This fully comprehensive text is accessibly written, with learning features throughout to encourage students to approach issues critically. Fully up-to-date and covering a huge range of themes for Education Studies students.
Chapter 18: The Impact of New Media Technologies on Children's Learning and Well-being
The Impact of New Media Technologies on Children's Learning and Well-being
Introduction
Today's children are surrounded by New Media such as television, video, computer games and the internet. It would seem to be important, therefore, for those interested in children and their well-being to consider the impact such new technologies may have on children's learning. This chapter considers both the positive and negative impact of New Media technology.
Educational Technology versus Entertainment Technology
Traditionally young people have been characterised either as the victims of New Media technology, encouraged to indulge in violent computer games, helpless to the hypnotic power of the screen, or as canny ‘cyber citizens’, the digital generation. Prensky (2001) names them as ‘digital ...
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