“Dizzywood’s unique virtual environment offers our kids a wonderful environment in which they can learn important lessons through activities that require thoughtful decision-making. We hope the success of this program offers a model for other youth programs to follow.”
The partnership reinforces the findings of two recent studies of elementary school students conducted by UC Davis. The studies observed that children find ways to transform their experiences with technology into fun, highly organized group activities and that technology-based activities can be explicitly designed to foster social reflection and advanced planning among young children.
Anne Bubnic on 22 Jun 09If you're a Gadgetwise reader, you're among the 23 percent of the world's population that has Internet access. You've figured out how to download fresh news, print a boarding pass or tweet. But take a second and try to understand how it must feel to be undigital these days. There's a grating discomfort that comes from being left out of everyone else's secret language. I was reminded of how common this feeling is in my own hometown library last night, when I walked into a free public workshop on Facebook.
