Issues arising with young children
Ownership & Responsibility
- parent v. child device ownership
- school (or ELearning Foundation) owns – Responsibility?
- lack of clarity re: content (whose ownership/responsibility)
Skills
Inclusion & Cultural
- cultural
- usually portray different groups in books - any in software?
- equality of opportunity
Parents & Home
- middle-class snobbery – “real” toys
- communication with home. 2-way
- should it be an issue what is on the device from home?
- preparation of children for future
Multiple source of information in the classroom
1. content created by child
- who sees it
- access controls
- what does child/parent see
- time stored for
- back-up
- assessment
2. shifts relationship
3. new curriculum
- Diploma?
- digital literacy in primary framework
- text, not handwriting
E-Safety & Personal Safety
- on Internet
- “duty of care”
- legal duties & responsibilities
- use of Impero/Synchroneyes
- inappropriate content – How to deal with it?
- acceptable use policy – Include child giving consent
Funding?
Other issues
- polarisation – Policy v. Practice
- global transfer of data
- ethical codes – BPS, BERA
- ICT as a subject vs as a pervasive technology
