Body as center, Technology as play, Community as pedagogy

Body as center, Technology as play, Community as pedagogy<br/><br/>This paper is about a pedagogy based upon body and play when encountering digital media, technologies and narratives. Children, preschool teachers and teachers can use workspaces and playgrounds in kindergartens and after school clubs across time and space, that can be both local and global, online and physically based. The center of it all are the bodies in an experimenting community where all technologies can be entangled, also when experimenting with images (Thestrup, 2024).<br/>Children, pre-school teachers and teachers experiment and find a new use for media, technologies and narratives in open laboratories. These are open for a materiality, where digital and analogue are constantly intertwined, open to the world outside the local institution and open to equal collaborations where others outside the institution. The use of technologies is entangled with pedagogy (Fawns, 2022) and is post-digital (Fawns, 2019). It is about agency and making any media, technology or narrative a part of playing, generative artificial intelligence included. In these processes the body and creative processes play an important part, so the use of technology, media and narratives are based upon movement, space and manipulation of objects.<br/> The body as center is the poetics of children´s culture and pedagogy, but the reality and politics is when media, technologies and narratives are understood only as tools for consumption and not for production, communication or playing (Green et all, 2024; Larsen &amp; Johansen, 2024) or if the analogue and digital are understood as separated or pacifying, leaving body, play and community behind.<br/>Abstracts for individual presentations in a symposium/panel discussion<br/><br/>Keywords: experimenting communities; post-digital; entanglement; open laboratories <br/><br/>Thestrup, K. (2024). Globale børn, in Dahle, M. S. &amp; Meyer, G. S. (red.). Danning i Digitale praksisser: Fagbokforlaget Fawns, T. (2022). An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy—Technology Dichotomy in Postdigital Science and Education (2022) vol. 4:711–728 Fawns, T. (2019). Postdigital Education in Design and Practice in Postdigital Science and Education (2019) vol. 1:132–145 Green et all (2024). Digital Media Use in Early Childhood: Bloomsbury Larsen, M. C. &amp; Johansen, S. L. (2024). Social Media across everyday contexts: Samfundslitteratur<br/>