Artefact 3

Above is the document that I will be handing out to the school. The instructions will be for the children to have a conversation and copy down what they have said to each other in the speech bubbles. Each will take it in turn to fill in one of the bubbles.
The scenario will be 'a conversation you would have in the playground'
I have set out the document to be plain, so that this does not pucsh the children towards one subject.

Artefact 3

Meanwhile thinking up a new question I am beginning the design of the third artefact.
My main aim from the artefact is to see the way that children socialise between each other. I would like to prove that children are less social because of gaming. I would also like to see the way the children converse with text, so that i could see examples of text abbreviations/ slang etc.

I believe that the best way to do this would be to have the children in pairs, and let them converse but also write down what they have said in speech bubbles. I will make sure that they are free to talk about whatever they like, they will not be observed because this will move away from the point of the artefact. I will set the scenario as the playground and let them free to speak and write what they please to each other.

Moving on to artefact 3

For my personal research project i am looking for the subject area where the problem is. This should be a specific problem and as i move through each artefact, this should get more specific until i can attempt a solution at the problem. As i have explained in the previous post, i was proved very early that the subject area was not too much of a problem.

However the most interesting pieces of information that was called to my attention from the previous artefacts, which was the socialisation of children. Mrs White had explained that she has seen a significant difference with the way children talk, play and write.

She explained that children were less social in the playground there is more fighting (play fighting) specifically between the young boys. They often used text messaging abbreviations in their writing such as, you/U and LOL for laugh out loud.and finally there is more references to gaming in their story writing, for example the settings could be a war/battle field, or one specific example was jumping on cloud to cloud and more references to Super Mario.

This then tells me that it is gaming that is having this effect on the children and not the learning. Therefore inn order to reach the specific problem i have got no other choice than to reword/change the original question!

the areas of interest, are no longer between the thinking and learning of children compared to traditional methods. It has shifted towards, socialisation, gaming and parenting.I will have a think about the re-worded question and post it on the blog at a later date.

Artefact 3

After artefact 2 i am a little stuck as to where to go. It seems that there is not a problem with learning technologies in primary schools. This is interesting for me because my research question has been dismissed!

My Question:
How can new technologies be used to enable new ways of thinking and working to enhance the learning in a primary school environment, when compared to traditional methods?

I was trying to prove that technologies were not helping children advance in learning however I have been proved wrong. My research document concluded that there where both good and bad traits for technological learning. I then asked Mrs White who believed that technology was helping the students, which was also the view of 90% of the teachers in the survey...

my results from the first artefact also show that during school time the children are not sat in front of a computer for any significant amount of time. 1-3 hours a week was the set standard, and therefore i do not believe that this is a significant enough amount of time to have any effect. I was expecting that children would be using computers 1-3 hours a day!

Artefact 2

I created a survey including the same questions as i had asked the headteacher mrs White of Gorsey Brigg Junior School. I sent out the survey to random primary schools in the Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire regions of the UK. I received 21 responses in total, i have displayed some of the more interesting results below in tabulated format.





I asked the participants what they have notice change in terms of socialisation between the children. below is a round up of the best responses.

App Design

So thinking ahead about my PRP Project, i have an app in mind. The thought of mking an app scares me therefore i will begin by creating a prototype. I realise that ipad iphone etc does not support flash. However an easy way round this would be to use the i pad peek link, this will give an examle and will allow me to create and test the prototype.
I have shown an example of the flash in ipad peek in the image with my piracy project.

=D 100th Post Yeahh

Twitter feed JavaScript JSON

I have finsished my twitter feed which is to go into the footer of every page of the website, the image is above, just need to style it now :D