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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[OpenLearn : Childhood in the digital age&#xA;&#xA;I have just started a 12 hour OpenLearn course,  Childhood in the digital age.   However I really need to be working in a school to do this course as the first activity asks&#xA;&#xA;What do you think? How might technology hinder children’s physical, social and cognitive development, and how might it provide exciting opportunities for learning?&#xA;&#xA;Make a note of you thoughts at the start of this course. Use a notebook or digital notepad that you can refer back to at a later date.&#xA;So while I can answer the question. I would really like to answer this and other course activities, following discussion with children / young people and teachers, in order to help me answer this with an informed and evidence based approach. &#xA;&#xA;I may therefore defer going any further until I am able to do this.  Adds value to working as a TA if I can also use this as a way to help with OU Open Learn courses. &#xA;&#xA;In the meantime I am open to offers of employment. &#xA;&#xA;REFERENCES&#xA;&#xA;Open University&#xA;OpenLearn&#xA;Childhood in the Digital Age&#xA;&#xA;TAGS&#xA;&#xA;#OpenLearn,#OpenUniversity.#Course,#Childhood,#Technology,&#xA;#OpenToWork,#LookingForEmployment.&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xA;&#xA;a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;img alt=&#34;Creative Commons Licence&#34; style=&#34;border-width:0&#34; src=&#34;https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png&#34; //abr /This work is licensed under a a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License/a&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>I have just started a 12 hour OpenLearn course,  Childhood in the digital age.   However I really need to be working in a school to do this course as the first activity asks</p>

<pre><code>What do you think? How might technology hinder children’s physical, social and cognitive development, and how might it provide exciting opportunities for learning?

Make a note of you thoughts at the start of this course. Use a notebook or digital notepad that you can refer back to at a later date.
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<p>So while I can answer the question. I would really like to answer this and other course activities, following discussion with children / young people and teachers, in order to help me answer this with an informed and evidence based approach.</p>

<p>I may therefore defer going any further until I am able to do this.  Adds value to working as a TA if I can also use this as a way to help with OU Open Learn courses.</p>

<p>In the meantime I am open to offers of employment.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">Open University</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/" rel="nofollow">OpenLearn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/childhood-the-digital-age/content-section-overview" rel="nofollow">Childhood in the Digital Age</a></li></ul>

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<a href="/paulsutton/tag:OpenToWork" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">OpenToWork</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:LookingForEmployment" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">LookingForEmployment</span></a>.</p>

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