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http://dx.doi.org/10.7236/IJASC.2014.3.1.2

The Convergence of Life and Technology from the Nurturing Perspective

Wierzbicki, Robert J. (University of Applied Sciences Mittweida)

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International journal of advanced smart convergence / v.3, no.1, 2014 , pp. 7-10 More about this Journal

Abstract

Upbringing requires an active intervention in the process of children growing up. Convergence in technology and media makes it possible to augment nurturing by making blended infrastructures with new digital resources available in learning environments at schools. A game-based provision of educationally-valuable content within a collective, virtual environment combined with an analysis of events in the game after it has been played (blended nurture environment) may help to better communicate human values especially where old-fashioned discussion methods fail or do not fulfill the promise of effective, educational institution-based methods of bringing up. This is where life sciences, psychology, media, pedagogy and technology (need to) converge.

Keywords

convergence; life; technology; evolution; digital tool-maker; nurture; nature; blended nurture; gamification; games; behavior;

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