As you can see, Harry was exposed to technology at a young age. At age six months, he could sit on my lap while I updated web sites ..... fast forward six years and he is sitting next to me and I'm explaining blogs to him and watching vlogs together. As a parent and a technology trainer, I'm constantly reminded of the importance of scaffolding ....
The other day, I received a request from an academic, Jackie Marsh, whose research focuses on the role of popular culture, media and new technolgies in early literacy development. She came across my "Mommy, what's a blog" post when looking for examples of young children's involvement in the practice. She told me, "Yours is one of the few blogs I have found which comment on young children's interest in them." She went on to tell me, "I think it is an interesting example of how parents scaffold young children's understanding about techno-literacy practices such as blogging and texting, in the same way they have always scaffolded understanding of paper-based texts. That is why I would like to use the quotation. The chapter is for a handbook on research into the language arts."
Beth, this is a great positive view and idea. I started limiting my children's time on the computer (scared of these computer kids, not sure I'm a good role model now with all my hours on the computer :)), but I think it's a great idea to do some positive things with kids. I started showing them the sinterklaas journaal from television can also be found on the internet!
Posted by: joitske | November 10, 2005 at 12:10 PM