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Robin Samuelsson; Sara Price; Carey Jewitt – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
Digital devices such as iPads are prevalent in children's play from an early age. How this shapes young children's play is an area of considerable debate without any clear consensus on how different forms of play are brought into the iPad interaction. In this study, we examined 98 play activities of children in two preschool settings, featuring 2…
Descriptors: Play, Handheld Devices, Tablet Computers, Young Children
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Jo B. Helgetun; Mathias Decuypere – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This article analyses the smartphone application TeacherTapp that is used to collect and disseminate information on teachers' views on education and their classroom practices. The research takes as its object of analysis the use of TeacherTapp in England and Flanders. We analyze what TeacherTapp is, how it relates to a given localized community in…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
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Arantes, Janine; Buchanan, Rachel – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
Commercial platforms are being increasingly used in classrooms as teaching and learning tools. Beyond shifts in practice to accommodate this, the teacher becomes a tool of the platform -- generating and collecting data for commercial entities. It is time to move from commercial platforms working through teachers to influence education, towards…
Descriptors: Data Use, Advocacy, Professional Autonomy, Ethics
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Edwards, Susan – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
Digital play is a pedagogical construct used in early childhood to explain young children's engagement with technologies. Digital play draws upon theories of play to explain young children's learning with technologies. This paper proposes the further development of digital play by examining how the digital aspect of digital play may also be…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Early Childhood Education, Computer Oriented Programs
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Signe Sophus Lai; Victoria Andelsman; Sofie Flensburg – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
Amid the increasing reliance on digital tools and services in education, this article examines the datafication and commodification of student life in Denmark. We analyse the web and app (iOS and Android) versions of 45 tools and services that teachers in Danish public primary schools use as part of their teaching, the types of data generated by…
Descriptors: Data, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Web Sites
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Natalie Rusk; Rupal Jain; Caitlin K. Martin; Ricarose Roque; João Adriano Freitas; Linford Molaodi – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This paper shares reflections and stories from a collaborative design process between the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a global network of community-based educators to develop a creative coding app called OctoStudio, which supports children and families to create and share interactive projects on mobile devices. The app…
Descriptors: Community Education, Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Design