Holy Lemons! Learning from Children's Uses of the Internet in Out-of-School contexts
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Cathy Burnett, Jeff Wilkinson
Literacy Volume 39, Number 3, ISSN 1741-4350
Abstract
The Internet offers new possibilities for engaging with information and is associated with a wide range of literacy practices. National guidance in the United Kingdom on "reading the web", however, has focused largely on the different skills children may need to learn in school to navigate web-based texts successfully. Here it is argued that much can be learned both about the potential of the web and of the kinds of reading associated with it by examining children's use of the Internet outside school. This article therefore begins with an overview of particular features of on-screen reading and the different practices and orientations towards knowledge associated with this. It then reports on the use of the Internet out of school by a group of Year 6 children. It explores the purposes for which these children access the Internet, the attitudes and orientations they demonstrate in their approach to web-based texts, and their own perceptions of what has enabled them to develop as Internet users. This exploration highlights the way that children may experiment and innovate in their use of the Internet out of school, and in doing so demonstrate considerable autonomy. These findings are used to make suggestions for framing and supporting children's Internet use in school.
Citation
Burnett, C. & Wilkinson, J. (2005). Holy Lemons! Learning from Children's Uses of the Internet in Out-of-School contexts. Literacy, 39(3), 158-165. Retrieved September 1, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/97957/.
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