Bers Marina Umaschi
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University.
New Dir Youth Dev. 2010 Winter;2010(128):13-23. doi: 10.1002/yd.371.
In a digital era in which technology plays a role in most aspects of a child's life, having the competence and confidence to use computers might be a necessary step, but not a goal in itself. Developing character traits that will serve children to use technology in a safe way to communicate and connect with others, and providing opportunities for children to make a better world through the use of their computational skills, is just as important. The Positive Technological Development framework (PTD), a natural extension of the computer literacy and the technological fluency movements that have influenced the world of educational technology, adds psychosocial, civic, and ethical components to the cognitive ones. PTD examines the developmental tasks of a child growing up in our digital era and provides a model for developing and evaluating technology-rich youth programs. The explicit goal of PTD programs is to support children in the positive uses of technology to lead more fulfilling lives and make the world a better place. This article introduces the concept of PTD and presents examples of the Zora virtual world program for young people that the author developed following this framework.
在一个技术在孩子生活的大多数方面都发挥作用的数字时代，具备使用计算机的能力和信心可能是必要的一步，但这本身并非目标。培养能让孩子们以安全方式使用技术与他人交流和建立联系的性格特质，以及为孩子们提供利用其计算技能创造更美好世界的机会，同样重要。积极技术发展框架（PTD）是影响教育技术领域的计算机素养和技术流畅性运动的自然延伸，它在认知要素的基础上增加了心理社会、公民和伦理要素。PTD审视了在我们这个数字时代成长的孩子的发展任务，并提供了一个开发和评估富含技术的青少年项目的模型。PTD项目的明确目标是支持孩子们积极利用技术过上更充实的生活，并让世界变得更美好。本文介绍了PTD的概念，并展示了作者依据此框架为年轻人开发的佐拉虚拟世界项目的实例。
