The Experimenting Community and Trans-Glocal Play Culture

Abstract The experimenting community is a pedagogically based strategy, where experimenting and playing is at the center of the activities in a pre-school, a primary school or an after school club. This article describes this pedagogical approach. The experimenting community is a way for pre-school teachers and teachers to support children’s creative and meaning-making based use of digital media and digital technologies when getting online and using narratives as a source of material when playing and communicating locally, regionally and even globally. The paper is based upon several research projects, where children communicated across time and space, and outlines some possible ways to establish, what one might call a trans-glocal play culture, where children’s own agency plays an important part in transforming narratives and media use both in a local and global context. The experimenting community both embraces this aspect of children’s play culture and unfolds it as part of the community itself