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In recent years, the development of computational thinking (CT) has become integral to many school curricula worldwide. This has been associated with calls for computational thinking to be considered a ‘21^St Century’ competency, valuable to all ...

• Original study using structured curriculum to teach very young students' computational thinking (CT) concepts and practices.
• Considerable evidence was found indicating development of basic and more advanced CT concepts and practices.

This work in progress builds on the work on ‘Small CCI’ working with children below the age of 5. The purpose of this study was to compare children's engagement and experience with three classroom activities over a three-week period. Eight children aged ...

Augmented Reality (AR) technology enriches real-world surroundings with additional information like text, graphics, or sound, enabling interaction with virtual elements through devices such as smartphones, tablets, and specialized headsets. This study ...

The integration of online learning tools abruptly became necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic from early 2020 onward. This study surveyed a public-school sample of teachers (N = 297) and parents (N = 403) of Kuwaiti kindergartners. The results ...

This paper sheds light on 3–5-year-old children’s enactments of computational empowerment (CE) in activities with computational thinking (CT). CT is widely elaborated on as a universal problem-solving approach and a skill set necessary for ...

Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) is predominantly studied with school aged children. Working with preschool children, generally unable to read or write, involves addressing many challenges around planning, recruitment, and interpretation of findings. ...

The aim of the present study was to compare the impact of two different didactic techniques, blended teaching and teaching by the exclusive use of ICT, on preschool children’s vocabulary development. Additional aim of the present study was to ...

Parental involvement in preschool education is widely recognized as an important factor in skills development, school outcomes and lifelong success, and can be promoted through digital technologies, which offer new forms of communication and ...

This study aims to explore kindergarten student teachers’ readiness to integrate technology into their future classrooms and factors affect their integration. A mixed-methods, sequential explanatory design was utilized to achieve the research ...

This article presents a study of an educational experiment conducted at the early childhood education programme at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. As COVID-19 made social distancing an issue, the traditional practicum in kindergartens was ...

Mobile learning is a trend method that people used to study online nowadays. There is a lot of different study methods in mobile learning. Although mobile learning has been widely used for primary school, secondary school or university and college ...

Technology-based education of children with special needs has become the focus of many research works in recent years. The wide range of different disabilities that are encompassed by the term “special needs”, together with the educational ...

World organisations like OECD and World Economic Forum point to creativity and collaboration as important 21st century competences that should be supported through schooling. The European project (SEEDS) set out to examine the ...

• Commercial touch apps for kindergarteners only use the screen size as virtual world.

Although a myriad of educational applications using tablets and multi-touch technology for kindergarten children have been developed in the last decade, most of these applications do not fully exploit multi-touch technology since the ...

This study examines the information and communications technology (ICT) resource known as interactive whiteboards (IWB) and seeks to determine whether their effective use in Kuwaiti kindergartens generates better student outcomes. A review of the ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate if information and communications technology ICT helps to improve first grade and kindergarten students' basic geometry achievement. The author's research compares the level of geometrical competence of the ...

The purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the effectiveness of computer assisted teaching of geometry shapes and an interactionist approach to teaching geometry in kindergarten versus other more traditional teaching methods. Our research ...

In this paper a case study in which interactive digital storytelling was exploited for fostering empathy towards children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is presented. The research population consisted mainly by Kindergarten children. Based on the ...

Serious games have unique strengths that can be used to augment science education. For the current study, we developed and investigated a serious game to assess kindergartners discovery of the laws of physics in the so-called Hippo app. The participants ...

A literature review was conducted to describe the knowledge and skills teachers need for using technology to foster early literacy development in kindergarten classrooms. The study was guided by three research questions, concerning 1) effects of ...