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Children's models of the Internet.
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Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual
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January 1, 2004
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This article will show how children (9-12 years old) describe the Internet in terms of different models. It is related to how they understand the reliability of the Internet as well as some other aspects.
The study was carried out in a 4th-grade class in 1998/1999. The study has an ethnographic approach. With inspiration from information research on human-computer-interaction, the children's descriptions are categorized as different models: the surrogate model, the metaphor model, and network representation.
The children, who describe the Internet as a network representation, know a lot about how the Internet works and they also talk in terms of reliability. It ...
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