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"Young children’s lives are increasingly spent indoors. They have less access
to green spaces, their parents are concerned about safety, and there’s also the
draw of digital entertainment. This shift away from the natural world has been
evocatively named “the extinction of experience”.
By being in green spaces, children benefit in many ways, including greater
physical activity and improved concentration and self-control. The outdoors is
also good for children’s learning. Benefits such as these have fuelled the rise
of forest schools and the integration of nature play in early childhood
education.
The things that play the biggest role in limiting children’s time in nature are
urbanisation and parental attitudes. Despite this, digital devices are often
blamed for keeping kids indoors.
Digital entertainment is widely perceived as addictive and detrimental. While
the concept of screen time is contested, most Australian children are exceeding
the current recommended guidelines.
Our research took a different approach, asking: could digital technologies be
designed to foster nature connection? After looking at studies of digital
technologies used by children aged eight years and under, we found a wide range
of ways technology can help children find their way back into the great
outdoors."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
