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Children Learning from Apps
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Children Learning from Apps
"Can Software Support Children's Vocabulary Development?" -Article
"Research has shown that children can be taught new word meanings through rote methods involving synonyms and definitions."
Toddlers and tablets: emerging apps take cues from learning science -Article
“Touchscreens are the most intuitive interfaces ever created for small children.”
Learning in the digital age: better apps are coming
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Apps for children to learn from are out there, but they have to be engaging and worth while to the child.
“As parents, we can stop trying to find the "best" app. The right app is whichever one appeals to the student.”
Examples of benefits
"The Benefits of Playing Video Games" - Research Article
Various kinds of games help promote different reasoning, perception, problem solving, and spatial navigation.
"The Multiple Dimensions of Video Game Effects" - Article
The five dimensions that video games can affect players. amount of play, content, context, structure, and mechanics of game play.
Thesis
It's all about the apps: parental mediation of pre-schoolers' digital lives -Article
"Seven myths about young children and technology"
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The changes of life since hand held devices and their apps have become a part of the everyday lives of families and how they are being implemented.
Educational game apps are beneficial to a preschooler's educational development because the children are in fact learning valuable skills from them.
“Touchscreen technologies make the computer easily navigable for very young children, and these apps create an immediacy of access for infants and preschoolers who do not need to open a web browser to find their favorite sites. In the lives of these children, it seems that it has always been possible to touch and swipe their way into games, books, and creative and communicative experiences. “
“We believe that children's early experiences when playing and learning with the various technologies available to them at home can contribute to their learning, particularly when they are supported by adults who monitor activities, help when things are difficult, provide encouragement and praise for achievements, and assist children in managing their emotions if they get frustrated. This is no different from the ways in which children learn from other kinds of experiences and activities that they encounter in their early years.”
Conclusion
Research has shown that childern are in fact learning from playing educational app games. It has also shown that as the quality of apps develop, they become even more effective teaching tools.