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power there as well as a sense of agency and control, the possibility of choice and planning. In this way a child
shapes the process of self- education, identity, and knowledge how to cope with difficult situations. Thanks to
the multiple possibilities of going back to the game, particular activity or a level, the player learns self-discipline
and patience in gaining goals.
Even viewing an online gallery web page is becoming potentially creative, because it forces the viewer to
seek further interesting information, and the „links " offer an endless exploration of different options that require
a creative responses and become the kind of stimulus to induce activity that is associated with thinking (Pater -
Ejgierd, Karczmarzyk, 2010). Thus, the child learns how to develop either aesthetic or creative competences.
This type of education is similar to self- education and e-learning (Pater - Ejgierd, Karczmarzyk, 2010). It
prepares the child to work independently and provides ability to concentrate on the task performed alone.
Internet art galleries for children offer them both the knowledge of the history of art and a play with a work of
art. Therefore, this kind of activity can be fully recommended for children and their parents who seek to enrich
and stimulate the development of their children.
References
Baudrillard J., (1994), Simulacra and Simulations. The University of Michigan Press.
Karczmarzyk M., Child in a virtual gallery, Wydawnictwo “Zak”, Warsaw 2013.
Karczmarzyk M., Pater - Ejgierd N., (2011), Child in a virtual gallery. Analysis of selected websites of great
museums. Pedagogy of early childhood education - discourses, problems opening, edited by D. Klus - Stański ,
D. Bronk and A. Malendy, Wydawnictwo " Zak ", Warsaw.
Karczmarzyk M., Pater – Ejgierd N, (2010), Interactive online art galleries as an example of a hypertext, paper
presented in English at the conference ICET,
Electronic media in a child's life, (2008), edited by Jadwiga Izdebska, Trans Humana, Bialystok.
Internet sources
The Tate Modern, London, www.tate.org.uk / modern (date of entry: 14.11.10)
Louvre Museum in Paris, http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en (date of entry: 14.11.10).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm (date of entry: 14.11.10).
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York www.moma.org (date of: 14.11.10).
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world, Internet Source:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html, date of entry on
page: 26.02.12.
BALL, http://www.kula.gov.pl/lodz/ (date of entry: 1/13/13).
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