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Frank Niklas; Efsun Birtwistle; Anna Mues; Astrid Wirth – Child Development, 2025
The usage of high-quality learning applications (apps) at home may increase children's mathematical and literacy competencies. This approach was tested in a family intervention study. Intervention families (n = 302) in two German cohorts (N = 500; M (SD)[subscript age] = 61.0 (4.6) months; n[female gender symbol] = 302) received tablets with newly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Tablet Computers
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Vaiopoulou, Julie; Papadakis, Stamatios; Sifaki, Eirini; Kalogiannakis, Michail; Stamovlasis, Dimitrios – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study explored certain popular educational apps' vital characteristics and potential profiles (n1 = 50) for kindergarten kids. The profile analysis involved a categorization ascended from an evaluation process conducted by pre-service early childhood teachers' (n2 = 295) at the University of Crete, Greece, using a new instrument, validated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Educational Technology
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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
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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