Mobile phone and Internet; the new virtual platform of communication!

How does children’s language development in this way of communication?

Development of language for children can be classified in different stage. Some communicate with their eyes:

Language is a cognitive, dynamic process, and change in social and cultural context. It can be used as a tool to communicate, chare experience, valency, attitude, emotional.  

Look to  Lyngheimschool; schoolchild, 12 years old learn Russian:

Earlier we used language verbal and the traditionally written language. These days we also use the virtual communicate-platform, and our social network is expended. We can easily communicate across country, culture, language, age, gender. The tools we’re using are Internet and mobilphone (sms; Short Message Service)

According to Berit Skog, researcher NTNU digital youth-culture, already in 1999 40 % of children 14- 15 year, had their own mobil phone. Skog also think that SMS- language is a consolidate for our dialect.

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2011 children from 7-8 year old have their own mobilphone.    
Not everybody is satisfied about our time using the computer; Helsedirektoratet! We often title language online as “chat”.  The chat-platforms are limited, so we can’t write long letters. Inventive as people are, we started to code words. Here is some example:

lol = laughing out loudBTW = by the waya/s/l = age, sex, locationJ = satisfied :-s = confused/unsureThis is partly a hidden and complex language. To be able to understand what children are receiving and sending to each other, adults better be aware of these new codes.Parents, check this out:Secret SMS-codes
More secret codes
Chat-language

Children are able to change these codes from the context. They change whether they write to friend, parents, or grandparents. The SMS-language does not deviation much from the normal language as many may think. Children, who get along with it, get better read- and write competence than those who doesn’t.

Ingunn Kjøl Wiig says something about this

TO BE AWARE OF, ONLINE!

Children change code, but so can adults. We must teach our children to be careful what they do and say when they’re on Internet and mobilphone. Adult can manipulate their profile, and give an impression to be someone their not.

Tricked & abused, an.no

Grooming is a new word, and is related to cases like this
Word and pictures are powerful weapon.
Don't abuse it!
Kilde

THE EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF ICT

You and I can use ICT and participate in the development of the society J

Today, with the development of ICT, we are able to study at College from long distance. We are using Learning Management System (LMS) to communicate and delivered tasks between teacher and students. The communication and feedback between students are also something that develops learning. Mine experiment is that I got the same, or maybe more/better feedback from the teacher online, than in a classroom with 30 students.

Some LMS using at schools today: Its Learning, Fronter, Moodle.

Lev Vygotskij’s (Russian theoretician) perspective of socio-culture fit in here: knowledge creates and bought further by interaction. Education with ICT builds on a constructivistic view of learning.
This video shows us, by Andrew Johnson, Lev Vygotskij's theori about socio-cultural learning: 

This video shows us, also by Andrew Johnson, the theori about the Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

Education with ICT builds on a constructivistic view of learning. Lev Vygotskij extended the theory, and pointed the importance of social frame (Context) around our action. Social action comes first, then we’ll learn individual. If I get some help from a teacher, guidance, or a longer coming student I can reach a higher level. “Scaffold- building” (Jerome Bruner)

That’s the thing about LMS. In my school we use ”Moodle” to interaction online with the teacher and other students.  With portfolio assessment I can deliver a task in my portfolio, and the teacher will give me guidance and comments to make it better to the next delivering. Sometimes students are allowed to comment my work. That’s good learning. It makes me learn in the operative way, and not by figurative, because I’ll have to give my self-development both reflection and cooperation.

This way of learning, portfolio assessment, can be a useful tool to students that need adapted training.

Jean Piagets theory of learning can also fit here. We create our text and develop it in a process. We can build, change, and tear it apart all the time, and ICT makes it visible.
Today's text is not a prosess where we first draft, and then log it. I start to write, and then change it frequently till I publish the whole thing. This constuction of knowledge fit to Jean Piaget's learningtheori's   and other support of constructivism
We can use ICT in many ways, and the development of ICT in online learning is for the better for us people. Both development for broadband, and many option for long distance learning.
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