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Direct linkKara, Ersin; Cagiltay, Kursat – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
This paper reports on the design and development of educational games and materials that utilize affordable e-textile technology. The researchers employed a design-based approach whereby preschool children used three e-textile materials in two cycles to inform on the development of interactive materials from ordinary objects and bodily interactive…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Design, Educational Technology, Preschool Children
Tang, Joni Tzuchen; Nine, Wei Tung; Wang, Yi Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Children always have a natural inclination to play, so the purpose of game-based learning is to establish a way for children to acquire knowledge while playing. This study is to discover the relationship between children's play preferences and learning performances toward a mathematics mobile game we designed. The tablet game we designed,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Mathematics Education, Game Based Learning
Kalmpourtzis, George – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This paper presents a teaching experiment with preschoolers, considering games as means for presenting problem-based situations and focusing on the development of game design in connection to problem posing skills. The study was conducted in a focus group of eighteen 5-6-year-old students who participated in game design sessions, compared to a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Problem Solving
Mertala, Pekka; Meriläinen, Mikko – Global Studies of Childhood, 2019
Although digital games have become a constituent part of young children's lives, not enough is known about the kinds of meanings children give to games and gaming. This qualitative study contributes to resolving this need by engaging 26 5- to 7-year-old Finnish preschoolers in an open-ended drawing task to answer the following research questions:…
Descriptors: Children, Computer Games, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing
Callaghan, Melissa N.; Reich, Stephanie M. – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2020
Preschool-aged learners process information differently from older individuals, making it critical to design digital educational games that are tailored to capitalize on young children's learning capabilities. This in-depth literature synthesis connects features of digital educational game design--including visuals, feedback, scaffolding…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Games, Design
Akcaoglu, Mete; Kale, Ugur – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
Engagement in game design tasks can help preservice teachers develop pedagogical and technical skills for teaching and promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Through the design process, preservice teachers not only exercise critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, but also learn about an instructional method to support their…
Descriptors: Games, Educational Games, Computer Games, Preservice Teachers
Download full textSampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
These proceedings contain the papers of the 18th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2021), held virtually, due to an exceptional situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, from October 13-15, 2021, and organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Open Educational Resources, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
