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Visual Affective Design Factors for Learning in Virtual Reality
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Chris Hovey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the affective qualities of non-player character motion in a Virtual Reality (VR) cognitive training game, their impact on players' core affective experiences, game performance, and cognitive training outcomes. How do the movements of game characters in a VR environment affect players' experienced emotions, gameplay…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Games
Breathe-Move-Learn with Young Children: 70 Activities in Mindfulness, Brain-Friendly Movement, and Social-Emotional Learning
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Marcia Lee Unnever – Brookes Publishing Company, 2024
Get every young child ready to learn--and support their social-emotional development--with these 70 fun, quick, and effective activities! Teachers of early childhood through Grade 3 will love this unique combination of SEL, mindfulness, and brain-friendly physical activity that promotes growth, development, and behavior management. Designed to…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Metacognition, Motion, Brain
Promoting Inhibitory Control in Preschool Children through Music-Movement Activities in the Classroom
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Suppalarkbunlue, Warabud; Chutabhakdikul, Nuanchan; Lertladaluck, Kanda; Moriguchi, Yusuke – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
Executive function (EF) is an early cognitive skill that rapidly develops during the preschool years. One of the common EF issues in young children is inhibitory control. This study investigates the impact of music-movement activities on children's inhibitory control. We designed the music-movement training (MMT) program for preschoolers to…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Inhibition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
A Pilot Movement Integrity with Intelligent Play Program (MIIP): Effects on Math Performance and Enjoyment for Preschoolers in China
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Liang, Kun; Ma, Xiao; Zhang, Jialin; Zhang, Baogen; Xin, Fei; Yuan, Qiang; Zhang, Dingyi; Chen, Ronggui; Tang, Yan – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: The relation between the human body movements and cognition has been a research hotspot in physical education and health promotion in recent years. This study applied the embodied cognition theory to examine the effects of the Movement Integrity with Intelligent Play (MIIP) program on preschoolers' math performance. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness, Motion
A Translational Application of Music for Preschool Cognitive Development: RCT Evidence for Improved Executive Function, Self-Regulation, and School Readiness
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Bentley, Laura A.; Eager, Rebecca; Savage, Sally; Nielson, Cathy; White, Sonia L. J.; Williams, Kate E. – Developmental Science, 2023
The benefits of active music participation and training for cognitive development have been evidenced in multiple studies, with this link leveraged in music therapy approaches with clinical populations. Although music, rhythm, and movement activities are widely integrated into children's play and early education, few studies have systematically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Intervention
Investigating Ramps and Pathways with Young Children (Ages 3-8). STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series
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Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses Ramps and Pathways as a context to provide children ages 3-8 with opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Communities of Practice