Young People’s Use of Information and Communication Technologies: The Role of Sociocultural Abilities  

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Perriault, Jacques

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Joining Society Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth, page 216-224.
Topik: Sociocognitive Abilities; Social Abilities; Relational Abilities
Fulltext: Young People’s Use of Information and Communication Technologies The Role of Sociocultural Abilities.pdf (308.33KB)

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Observing students building knowledge with digital media leads us to assert that some sociocognitive abilities that are trained within family life and more generally in social life can play an unexpected role in enabling youngsters to use media for accessing knowledge. Focusing attention on students’ representations and behaviors when using media de?nitely shows that the usual vision of electronic tools always enforcing transmission of knowledge is nothing but a technician’s illusion (Perriault, 1989; Pochon & Grossen, 1994). Our observations of young people using telecommunication and computer devices, including interactive videoconference equipment (Jaeckl ´ e & Perriault, 1998) and video games (Perriault, 1996), for entertainment or education show the prominent role of speci?c abilities that are hidden by the global notion of interactivity that is commonly used to describe such activities (Perret, 1996; Perriault, 1996, 1998). The abilities stressed here are both metacognitive abilities (Lowyck, Elen, Proost, & Buena, 1995) – namely, time management, parallel processing, and multilevel analysis of communication devices – and social abilities in collaborative study.

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