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Direct linkNesrin Isikoglu; Kadriye Selin Budak; Müzeyyen Guzen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The current study aims to identify changing trends in digital play addiction tendencies among young children and parental guidance strategies before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the bioecological model of development, it was hypothesized that the pandemic would have a significant impact on the addiction to digital play…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Addictive Behavior, Parent Role
Milkova, Eva; Pekarkova, Simona – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The presented study focuses on children aged from 5 to 6.5 who attend Czech kindergartens. Its purpose is to explore a potential positive impact of an educational game application on malleability of children's spatial skills through the application usage. The research was conducted as a pedagogical experiment in which the pre-test and post-test…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Educational Games
Download full textVan der Westhuizen, Leonie M.; Hannaway, Donna M. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: The digital world and the concomitant changes in early childhood education have created uncertainty for teachers not knowing how to adjust their pedagogical practices of using digital play to enhance language development. Aim: This study aimed to analyse what teachers understand by digital play and how they use it for language teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Games, Elementary School Students, Urban Areas
Aljaberi, Nahil – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study aims to explore the reality of employing digital technologies in the education of kindergarten children and the primary stage. It also aims to determine the views and perceptions of children towards these technologies and how to deal with them. The study also aims to determine the perceptions of kindergarten teachers and the primary…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Primary Education, Young Children
Talaee, Ebrahim – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
This study presents a pattern for Home Computer Use (HCU) and its relation to children's social and behavioural development during primary education. This study answers whether and how HCU (either educational or recreational) during primary school is related to children's social/ behavioural development such as self-regulation, anti-social…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Elementary School Students, Family Environment, Social Development
Choosri, Noppon; Pookao, Chompoonut – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
The intervention for cognitive language development is required to conduct at the young ages. As children usually gain the skill through their plays, this study proposed a physical interactive game to help children improve their language skill in both Thai and English language for pre-schooler. The motivation of this research is to create a game…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Language Skills, Preschool Children
Page, Tom; Thorsteinsson, Gisli – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2017
This article reports a study that aimed to contribute to the theory of good toy design in terms of the value of using toys for children development. Moreover, the study attempts to evaluate ways in which children play and study the toys they commonly use with respect to how it influence their adulthood. The authors firstly looked into the…
Descriptors: Toys, Design, Child Development, Interviews
Ilgar, Sengul Mertol; Karakurt, Cigdem – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The computers used in the field of education as in many other fields are used by children mostly for playing games. The present study has aimed at identifying the general attitude mothers of preschoolers hold regarding the effect of computer game playing on children's development and behaviour. The participants were volunteer mothers (n=749) whose…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Computer Games, Play, Child Development
Purdon, Anne – Education 3-13, 2018
This study aims to consider children's perspectives about free time activity choices. Through the use of drawings, favourite free time activities of third culture kids in Albania are compared with those of children in the UK. The sample comprises four boys and three girls from four to eight years from each country. Further conversations reveal…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Parents, Child Caregivers
O'Connor, Jane; Fotakopoulou, Olga – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
The rise in personal ownership of touch-screen technology such as iPads and smartphones in the UK in recent years has led to the increasing use of such technology by babies and very young children. This article explores this practice via an online parental survey with 226 UK parents of children aged 0-3 years within the context of the current…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Parent Surveys, Online Surveys
Plowman, Lydia; McPake, Joanna – Childhood Education, 2013
Parents and educators tend to have many questions about young children's play with computers and other technologies at home. They can find it difficult to know what is best for children because these toys and products were not around when they were young. Some will say that children have an affinity for technology that will be valuable in their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Information Technology, Misconceptions, Computers
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
