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Konca, Ahmet Sami; Hakyemez-Paul, Sevcan – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2021
The primary research aim of this current study was to better understand the digital technology use of Turkish kindergarten teachers in their parental involvement practices. A questionnaire designed by the authors was administered to 100 kindergarten teachers in five cities located within Turkey. It was revealed in the study results that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Kindergarten
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Alkhawaldeh, Mustafa; Hyassat, Mizyed; Al-Zboon, Eman; Ahmad, Jamal – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017
The current research investigated early years teachers' perspectives regarding the role of computer technology in supporting children's learning in Jordanian kindergartens. Thirty semistructured interviews were conducted with preschool teachers. The sample of kindergartens in this study was purposefully selected from the targeted population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education
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Lim, Eun Mee – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
When technology integration is accomplished successfully in early childhood education settings, children tend to interact more with one another and exchange information related to computer tasks as well as the overall classroom on-going curriculum themes. Therefore, to explore how young children are interacting in computer areas when using…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Early Childhood Education, Technology Integration, Information Technology
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Knauf, Helen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2016
The study presented in this article examines mediatization processes in an American kindergarten. The kindergarten is considered as a social world in which forms of communication, as well as the identities of those involved (children, teachers, parents), evolve through the use of digital technologies. The relationships between the different…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Media, Interpersonal Communication, Stakeholders
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Lin, Chien-Heng – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
The present models for the integration of computer technology not only cannot satisfy teachers' actual needs but also are difficult to follow and perform by teachers in their classroom teaching. Consequently, the integration cannot be implemented properly and effectively in the real classroom teaching. Therefore, a practical integration model…
Descriptors: Investigations, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Joshi, Arti; Pan, Alex; Murakami, Masaru; Narayanan, Shankar – Computers in the Schools, 2010
This study was conducted with kindergarten teachers in the United States and Japan with respect to their beliefs about the role of computers in educating young children. Overall findings indicated significant differences in responses of teachers in the two countries. Generally, U.S. teachers had a more positive attitude toward computers in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes
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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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Pastor, Ella; Kerns, Emily – Educational Leadership, 1997
Because many kindergarten activities do not require paper and pencils, digital photography gave one class in Bronx, New York, a quick, easy method of saving special moments and documenting experiences. The children quickly learned to use the camera, download pictures to the computer, and use software to crop and alter their pictures, sometimes…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Literacy Education
Labbo, Linda D.; And Others – 1996
Noting that one of the biggest challenges facing teachers in the late 20th century is knowing how to help students learn to use a computer as a literacy tool, this brochure shares six ways that one kindergarten teacher successfully incorporated the computer as an informal literacy tool in her classroom. The brochure first discusses the teacher…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
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Chang, Young Mi; Mullen, Laurie; Stuve, Matthew – T.H.E. Journal, 2005
The frequency and form of computing for children are still open to definition at the classroom level. There are three major classifications of general-purpose computers to consider: desktops, laptops and handhelds (PDAs). However, despite the final commercial realization of a "computer" teachers should consider the physiological and cognitive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Computer Uses in Education, Young Children
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Ching, Cynthia Carter; Wang, X. Christine; Shih, Mei-Li; Kedem, Yore – Early Education and Development, 2006
To explore meaningful and effective technology integration in early childhood education, we investigated how kindergarten-first-grade students created and employed digital photography journals to support social and cognitive reflection. These students used a digital camera to document their daily school activities and created digital photo…
Descriptors: Photography, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Young Children
Vergara, Hernando – 1995
Kindergarten teachers are not receiving instruction in computer literacy, and the kindergarten curriculum does not include instruction in use of computers. A practicum project addressed the problem of bilingual (Spanish-English) kindergarten teachers who did not know how to use computer word processing programs. Major goals of the project were to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Deaver, Sharon R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2008
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Student Projects, Student Teaching