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Childhood in the digital age
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Nathalia Gjersoe, Natalia Kucirkova and John Oates. It was first published in October 2016 and updated in January 2020.

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Text

4.3.2 Flewitt, Rosie; Messer, David and Kucirkova, Natalia (2015) ‘New directions for early literacy in a digital age: the iPad’, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 15(3) pp. 289–310

Audio and visual

Audio

4.1 What could the future look like? © MADdraw Productions

4.2.1 The Educators, Episode 6, 17 September 2015 © BBC

Video

4.1.1 Flipped classrooms © MADdraw Productions

4.2.3 One Laptop per Child © OLPC; http://laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml

4.3.3 BBC News 6 September 2014 © BBC

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