Children, play, and computers in pre-school education
By Lydia Plowman, Christine Stephen. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
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The paper reports a study designed to inform the development of an information and communication technology strategy for the pre-school years of education. The main methods of collecting evidence were observations at seven pre-school settings and interviews with at least two practitioners and a number of children at each site. Practitioners generally referred to children “playing with the computer”. We describe some of the problems to be found in the emphasis on free play in nurseries and play groups when this means children are using computers as complete novices. There were few examples of peer support; adults rarely intervened or offered guidance and the most common form of intervention was reactive supervision. Interaction with a computer was therefore a limited experience for most children, but we provide examples of guided interaction that suggest a way forward for professional development.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education
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Citations in the corpus
- Just picking it up? Young children learning with technology at home (2008, result): “Our earlier studies in nurseries (Plowman & Stephen, 2005 ) suggested that children had limited opportunities for learning with technology at pre‐school and this was reinforced by the child participants in the study reported here.”
- Technology and interactive media as tools in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8 (2013, background): “…of technology is mediated by teachers’ use of the same developmentally appropriate principles and practices that guide the use of print materials and all other learning tools and content for young children (Van Scoter, Ellis, & Railsback 2001; Clements & Sarama 2003a; Plowman & Stephen 2005, 2007).”