Children develop locative literacy through informal collaborative digital mapping with family members using Google Earth¶
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q2 i? Pairs of children working with family members on informal digital mapping activity develop a new form of digital and spatial literacy called locative literacy, using mapping technology to make places visible, coherent and mobile. → Nancy Law 2018
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Nancy Law 2018¶
Nancy Law, Carolyn P. Rose, Ulrike Cress & Sten Ludvigsen. (2018). Different technologies, methodologies and epistemologies—is CSCL a community or communities? Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-018-9280-3
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Video-analysis study by Silvis, Taylor and Stevens of sibling or caregiver-child pairs mapping personally significant locations in the family kitchen. The editorial reports that "children have used the mapping technology to make places visible, coherent and mobile."
"students develop a new form of digital and spatial literacy, referred to as locative literacy, through engaging in informal collaborative digital mapping activity with family members (siblings or care givers) using Google Earth"
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Children develop locative literacy through informal collaborative digital mapping with family members using Google Earth |
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Children develop locative literacy through informal collaborative digital mapping with family members using Google Earth |
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