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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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Karalar, Halit; Sidekli, Sabri – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
In the life of students who are named digitally born in this era, tablets have a crucial role. The aim of this study, which is designed as a case study model, is to determine the use of tablet by second grade students and it aims to reveal their perception towards tablets via metaphors. 63-second grade students are participated in this study in…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2016
Prior work demonstrates the importance of introducing young children to programming and engineering content before gender stereotypes are fully developed and ingrained in later years. However, very little research on gender and early childhood technology interventions exist. This pilot study looks at N = 45 children in kindergarten through second…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Karuppiah, Nirmala – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This exploratory research project was aimed at developing baseline data on computer habits and behaviours among preschool children in Singapore. Three sets of data were collected from teachers, parents and children which are (1) why and how young children use computers; (2) what are the key physical, social and health habits and behaviours of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Computer Attitudes, Child Behavior
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Sivropoulou, Irene; Tsapakidou, Aggeliki; Kiridis, Argyris – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
Computers were introduced in Greek kindergartens of our country with the new curricula for kindergarten, "Inter-disciplinary Integrated Framework of Study Programs," ("Official Journal of the Hellenic Republic," 376 t.B/18-10-2001, article 6), in order to contribute to the spherical growth of children and to extend their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education
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Kiridis, Argiris; Drossos, Vangelis; Tsakiridou, Eleni – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2006
The introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Greek primary education appears to be carried out in the midst of a general uncertainty, mainly on the part of the teachers, who will have to cope with a new teaching tool and a new teaching philosophy that very few of them have learned to apply. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education