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Direct linkCohrssen, Caroline; Richards, Ben; Wang, Rhoda – Infant and Child Development, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, kindergartens in Hong Kong have sought ways in which to support children's learning at home while schools were closed. We report on a proof-of-concept study: short videos intended to support playful learning at home were distributed to parents/caregivers of preschool children via a smartphone app; toys and a storybook…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Polychronis, Shamby C.; Johnson, Andrea; Thelin, Russell J.; Eggett, Dennis L.; Christensen, Jaime – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2023
The use of mobile applications (apps) is popular among parents and teachers due to their cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation, and the number of apps with the specific aim to increase eye contact for children with autism is growing rapidly. However, research is limited to assess the efficiency of the majority of the apps available for…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Litster, Kristy; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Reeder, Rachel – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2019
The purpose of the inquiry was to understand how children in primary grades (i.e., preschool, kindergarten, and second grade) engaged with affordances and constraints of features in a Base-10 Blocks virtual manipulative mathematics app designed to promote learning opportunities. Researchers conducted one-to-one interviews with 100 primary grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Wohlwend, Karen E. – Theory Into Practice, 2015
This article examines the digital literacy practices that emerge when young children play together with digital apps on touchscreen devices. Children's collaborative composing with a digital puppetry app on a touchscreen--with many hands all busy dragging, resizing, and animating puppet characters, and many voices making sound effects, narrating,…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Young Children, Puppetry
Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Bullock, Emma P.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Tucker, Stephen I.; Westenskow, Arla; Boyer-Thurgood, Jennifer; Gulkilik, Hilal; Watts, Christina; Jordan, Kerry – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this project was to examine young children's mathematics learning using virtual manipulative touch-screen apps. We interviewed over 100 young children as they interacted with mathematics apps on iPads and examined how these interactions supported mathematics learning and contributed to changes in efficiency. Children interacted with…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Download full textGou, He; Dezuanni, Michael – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2018
This article develops insights and generates new lines of inquiry into young children's digital lives in China and Australia. It brings to dialogue findings from a national study of young children's digital media use in urban settings in China with findings from studies in Australia. This is not presented as a direct comparison, but rather as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Cultural Differences, Preschool Children
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
