<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The age of electronic communication is the age of opening categorical and classification boundaries. In the new media space the traditional distinctions between children and adult experiences collapse and disappear. The aim of this essay is to show that the use of electronic technologies has abolished the traditional pedagogical thinking, and brings in new conventions. As a result of evolving new practices which rely on electronic communication devices, communication has become an essential activity among children, helping them acquire and share everyday information and knowledge with intensity and efficiency that can even change the traditional pedagogical thinking. The use of new communication technologies and forms of learning support gain particular importance especially in a system of lifelong learning, which provides identical frameworks for children and adults.</p></abstract>

The age of electronic communication is the age of opening categorical and classification boundaries. In the new media space the traditional distinctions between children and adult experiences collapse and disappear. The aim of this essay is to show that the use of electronic technologies has abolished the traditional pedagogical thinking, and brings in new conventions. As a result of evolving new practices which rely on electronic communication devices, communication has become an essential activity among children, helping them acquire and share everyday information and knowledge with intensity and efficiency that can even change the traditional pedagogical thinking. The use of new communication technologies and forms of learning support gain particular importance especially in a system of lifelong learning, which provides identical frameworks for children and adults.

Communication and Learning in the New Media Space

Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Department of Cultural Mediation, Faculty of Adult Education and Human Resources Development, University of Pécs, Hungary

Acta Educationis Generalis

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The age of electronic communication is the age of opening categorical and classification boundaries. In the new media space the traditional distinctions...

Communication and Learning in the New Media Space

Published Online: Jul 16, 2015

Page range: 43 - 46

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2015-0052

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