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Seyma Türen; Pinar Bagçeli Kahraman – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The increasing prevalence of digital technologies has notably expanded children's accessibility to a diverse range of digital tools day by day. Consequently, this evolution has significantly influenced the gaming landscape, propelling the surge in popularity of digital games among children. This change has also led to the need for changes in the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Video Games, Computer Games
Kantorski, Brinley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Digital educational games have been a part of the educational landscape since the early 1970s. Since then, there has been a proliferation in the quantity, format, type, and quality of digital educational games available to classroom teachers. Despite this, the body of literature surrounding the effectiveness of these digital educational games…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Technology, Video Games, Program Effectiveness
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Maree Howard; Shahid A. Akhund – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
Background: Many governments worldwide have established guidelines regarding children's physical activity and sedentary behaviors linked to positive health outcomes. While research has established low adherence to these guideline levels, it is unclear whether parents' knowledge, perceptions, and support around these behaviors might be barriers to…
Descriptors: Children, Parents, Knowledge Level, Parent Attitudes
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Umar, Çigdem Nilüfer – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2023
The purpose of this research is to explain the effects of the qualitative results obtained from the data which is gathered from the interviews with gifted students and their parents regarding the screen use of gifted students between the ages of 12-18 on the potential screen addictions of gifted students. This study is mixed methods research. The…
Descriptors: Gifted, Academically Gifted, Parents, Pandemics
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Buldu, Metehan; Tugçe-Karar, Elif; Özyurt, Müjgan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The aim of the current study is to investigate the use of screen in young children before and during the pandemic and the attitudes of mothers towards their children's screen-viewing time. To achieve this, 20 mothers who have children between 1.5 and 6 years-old included in the study. The design of this qualitative study is phenomenology to…
Descriptors: Young Children, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mother Attitudes
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Shliakhovchuk, Elena; Muñoz García, Adolfo – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2020
The video-game industry has become a significant force in the business and entertainment world. Video games have become so widespread and pervasive that they are now considered a part of the mass media, a common method of storytelling and representation. Despite the massive popularity of video games, their increasing variety, and the…
Descriptors: Video Games, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Cooperation
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Beavis, Catherine; Rowan, Leonie; Dezuanni, Michael; McGillivray, Christie; O'Mara, Joanne; Prestridge, Sarah; Stieler-Hunt, Colleen; Thompson, Roberta; Zagami, Jason – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
Teachers' beliefs about what it is (or is not) possible to achieve with digital games in educational contexts will inevitably influence the decisions that they make about how, when, and for what specific purposes they will bring these games into their classrooms. They play a crucial role in both shaping and responding to the complex contextual…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Video Games, Mixed Methods Research
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Banos, R. M.; Cebolla, A.; Oliver, E.; Alcaniz, M.; Botella, C. – Health Education Research, 2013
Possessing sufficient nutritional knowledge is a necessary component in the prevention and treatment of obesity. A solid understanding of nutrition can help people make appropriate food selections and can also help correct irrational ideas or myths people may believe about food. It is a challenge to provide this information to children in ways…
Descriptors: Internet, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Computer Games
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Majgaard, Gunver – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
A group of first-semester engineering students participated in a game design course. The aim of the course was to learn how to design computer games and programming skills by creating their own games, thereby applying their game-playing experiences to gain knowledge about game design. The aim was for students to develop a more critically…
Descriptors: Design, Computer Games, Programming, Computer Science Education
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Ball, Stephen; Kovarik, Jessica; Leidy, Heather – Physical Educator, 2015
The Active and Healthy School Program (AHS) can be used to alter the culture and environment of a school to help children make healthier choices. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of AHS to increase physical activity while decreasing total screen time, increase healthy food choices, and improve knowledge about physical…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Physical Activity Level, Program Effectiveness, Life Style
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Nusir, Sawsan; Alsmadi, Izzat; Al-Kabi, Mohammed; Sharadgah, Fatima – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2012
The continuous inventions and evolutions in all information technology fields open new channels and opportunities to enhance teaching and educational methods. In one side, those may improve the abilities of educators to present information in an interactive and media enhanced formats relative to traditional methods. This may help students or…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory