Digital mediation of children’s interactions with the more than human world

该项目旨在调查儿童如何使用数字设备与“自然”世界互动，以及这如何影响他们的识字实践、情感参与和身份认同。该项目打算在澳大利亚和芬兰纵向研究这些问题，并结合社会阶层、物质条件和教学方法等关键背景问题。预期的结果包括确定通过移动数字技术教育学生的方法，使他们以情感、创造性和参与的方式与“自然”世界联系起来。这应该会带来显著的好处，因为儿童作为共同研究人员，在建立一套使用数字技术的协议方面做出了贡献，既能最大限度地利用“自然”的学习，又能减轻对环境的危害。

This project aims to investigate how children deploy digital devices to interact with the "natural" world and how this influences their literate practices, emotional engagement and identities. The project intends to examine these issues longitudinally across Australia and Finland, and in relation to key contextual issues of social class, material conditions, and pedagogical approach. Expected outcomes include identifying ways of educating students through mobile digital technologies that connect them in emotional, creative and engaging ways with the "natural" world. This should provide significant benefits as children contribute as co-researchers in establishing a set of protocols for using digital technologies to both maximise learning in "nature" and mitigate harm to the environment.