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- Examine how Icelandic children and adolescents are using the Internet
- Provide graduate students that are in a diploma program on ICT in
education at KHÍ research-related experience in data gathering and
analysis.
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- Were taking a course managed by Salvör Gissurardóttir, assistant
professor KHÍ - Teaching and Learning on the Internet in Spring quarter
2002. Research participation was
evaluated as 1/2 credit (1 ects), managed by Sólveig Jakobsdóttir,
associate professor KHÍ.
- Most are practicing teachers. In 2002 there were 22 graduate students
that participated 17 women and 5 men.
- Made observations and short interviews of 102 individuals. Most did 4
observations (2 girls, 2 boys, averaging 13 minutes per observation).
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- Write down as fast as you can everything that the individual being
observed is doing - try to
include movements, facial expressions, sounds, words, keyboarding
skills, interaction with the screen and others, things going on on the
screen.
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- 86 individuals under 20
- They visited 59 webs that were recorded plus a few unrecorded
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- Entertainment and sports
- 62% visited such webs
- Nobody under 10
- Girls more entertainment
- Boys more sports
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- Games
- 52% participants used those
- Not much gender difference
- Most popular among
10-12 year olds
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- Information -related
- 31% participants used those
- School webs, 9%
- More girls than boys and more prominent among 13 years and older
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- Communications
- 22% used those
- More girls than boys
- More prominent among 13 years and older
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- Search machines/webs
- 19% of participants used those
- Mainly an Icelandic one leit.is (16%)
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- Increases with age, less with increased interaction with others, and
less with fragmentation of activity.
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- Boys tend to be more openly positive in their behavior than are the
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- Examining students under 20 years old
- Spring 2001, 15 boys and 15 girls
- Spring 2002, 24 boys and 25
girls 6-15 years old.
- In the interview was e.g. asked about Internet use in and out of school
and the use of other types of technology.
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- Games more prominent in younger group than older but in 2001 data but
such difference was not visible in the 2002 group?
- Trend with project work/information search mentioned more in 2002 than
2001?
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- Interview checklist, improve
- Make more detailed interviews with older participants.
- NB - research not conclusive but provides sort of a window - provides
hints about trends and ideas about further research regarding
ever-changing technology environment and use of the Internet
- Study site is: http://soljak.khi.is/netnot.
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