Digital Children

Digital Children is a blanket title for several projects that have been undertaken to study the effects of digital media and children’s education.

PROJECT 1:

Digital Children-Co-Producing an Intuitive Platform for Student-Centred Learning

A cross-cultural and comparative study of online school learning platforms and resources, introducing digital organising tools as part of a holistic approach to cater for children’s digital educational needs, and in response to feedback from students (11-14 years), Primary Care Givers and Educators in the UK and India.

This project seeks to improve the delivery of online education based on the ‘Lockdown Evidence’ of school children, primary care givers (PCG) and teaching staff within the national education systems in India and the UK.

See https://www.sds-mylearning.co.uk

SDS MyLearning was a sponsored project to test the capability of children to archive their school work and provide a digital platform for pupils to save and retrieve work according to their specific school examination boards. This project was undertaken by Dr. Alison Kahn in partnership with SDS-Group during her Visiting Fellowship in Digital Learning Systems with Loughborough University (2021-2023). It is now being taken to the next stage incorporating AI capabilities. (January 2025).

This talk was given at the The Applied Cognition, Technology and Interaction Group, Loughborough University (2022): it is an open network of researchers working to promote interdisciplinarity and exchange between biomedical, psychological, design, and interactional research that supports the wellbeing, mental health, and independence of people living with dementia, cognitive decline and associated disabilities:

Keynote 1: Dr Alison Kahn: Digital Children: Ethnographic methods to address Essential Digital Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ZixztYuqo

Example of Pupil in Year 8 (age 12) using the platform

Interactive Artifacts: Welt Museum, Vienna 2020