Enacting and sharing digital practices in the early years: working with children, families, educators and industry

Professor Susan Edwards, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Australian Catholic University

This seminar provides an overview of a large Australian Research Council Linkage Project conducted in collaboration with leading national organisations involved in early years education, digital content production, law enforcement, parenting education and online safety education based on the Early Childhood Australia Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies. An overview of the theoretical framework used to define and identify digital practices enacted by children, families and educators is provided. The approach to co-designing resources with organisations to further share identified digital practices intended to support children, families and educators with digital technology use in the best interest of the child is detailed and illustrated with exemplars from the project.

Biography

Susan Edwards is Professor of Early Childhood Education at Australian Catholic University. She has researched young children and their adults using digital technologies, digital media and popular culture in their play and learning for many years. Susan has been awarded over $1.5 million in research funding to develop insights into young children’s cultural meaning-making with digital technologies through play. She is very interested in learning advancing knowledge and pedagogical practices that help keep young children safe online. This includes amongst the first work nationally and internationally with colleagues to determine what young children know and understand about the internet. Her publications include over 80 books, journal publications and reports.

• This event is free and open to the public, staff and students.
• This is a hybrid event. Registration is essential to receive the link to ZOOM. 
• Please note, this seminar is not being recorded.