SPEAKER/S: Carla Engelbrecht Fisher (Teachers College, Columbia University)
5-6 is when kids have more motor skills and can start to understand dispersion
Displacement effect – if they are playing games, they are not homework, hanging with others etc
Tight racer – multi-player game
Preschool
Zone of Proximal Development – if I play with a partner, they will help bring me to their level, scaffolding
Hidden Park – iphone app
Panwapa
Super Mario Bros Wii is collaboratively like LBP
Middle Childhood – 5-8, 8-12
amanda project
clever hive
2 types of friendships
– aggregate – what the masses think
– dyadic – resciprocal
There is research saying that if a kid knows the kids they go to kindergarden withm, they will be more successful
Highlights answers EVERY letter that is sent ot them.
multi-player games have an effect of increasing offline social games
urban v rural comepteitive
Joi Podgorny 