Abstract As technology access and use increases in early childhood classrooms and at home, there ... more Abstract As technology access and use increases in early childhood classrooms and at home, there is an increased need to support students’ understanding of how to be safe, responsible, and cooperative digital media users. While teaching media literacy in education has some historical context, it is only relatively recently that school districts have expanded their efforts to teach other digital citizenship competencies, including internet safety, media balance, and digital footprint. The purpose of this paper is to use survey data of teachers to document how the teaching of digital citizenship competencies in elementary school varies based on factors such as demographics of the students and the amount of educator experience. Results from this descriptive study indicate that elementary educators are teaching digital citizenship as early as Kindergarten but not all competencies of digital citizenship are being taught equally. Additionally, early teaching of digital citizenship competencies is more likely to occur in suburban schools and schools with more racially-ethnically diverse students. These results have implications for education policies around supporting digital citizenship competencies starting early in formal schooling.
The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development, 2008
... Using children's self-reports via a similar diary method to that used by Lundber... more ... Using children's self-reports via a similar diary method to that used by Lundberg and his colleagues, Timmer, Eccles, and O'Brien found ... As early as 1929, Walt Disney instituted a series of promotional activities to attract children to his movies; he instituted Mickey Mouse Clubs ...
Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society, 2015
Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies tha... more Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies that were not available but 5 years ago. At the apex of this boom is the introduction of applications ("apps") for tablets and smartphones. However, there is simply not the time, money, or resources available to evaluate each app as it enters the market. Thus, "educational" apps-the number of which, as of January 2015, stood at 80,000 in Apple's App Store (Apple, 2015)-are largely unregulated and untested. This article offers a way to define the potential educational impact of current and future apps. We build upon decades of work on the Science of Learning, which has examined how children learn best. From this work, we abstract a set of principles for two ultimate goals. First, we aim to guide researchers, educators, and designers in evidence-based app development. Second, by creating an evidence-based guide, we hope to set a new standard for evaluating and selectin...
... label, describe, and ask questions (Barr, Zack, Garcia, & Muentener, 2008; DeLoache &... more ... label, describe, and ask questions (Barr, Zack, Garcia, & Muentener, 2008; DeLoache & DeMendoza, 1987; Fidler, Zack, and Barr, 2010; Namy, Acredolo, & ... In contrast to a book reading interaction, in which the parent and/or child can set the pace of the interaction, the DVD ...
Abstract As technology access and use increases in early childhood classrooms and at home, there ... more Abstract As technology access and use increases in early childhood classrooms and at home, there is an increased need to support students’ understanding of how to be safe, responsible, and cooperative digital media users. While teaching media literacy in education has some historical context, it is only relatively recently that school districts have expanded their efforts to teach other digital citizenship competencies, including internet safety, media balance, and digital footprint. The purpose of this paper is to use survey data of teachers to document how the teaching of digital citizenship competencies in elementary school varies based on factors such as demographics of the students and the amount of educator experience. Results from this descriptive study indicate that elementary educators are teaching digital citizenship as early as Kindergarten but not all competencies of digital citizenship are being taught equally. Additionally, early teaching of digital citizenship competencies is more likely to occur in suburban schools and schools with more racially-ethnically diverse students. These results have implications for education policies around supporting digital citizenship competencies starting early in formal schooling.
The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development, 2008
... Using children's self-reports via a similar diary method to that used by Lundber... more ... Using children's self-reports via a similar diary method to that used by Lundberg and his colleagues, Timmer, Eccles, and O'Brien found ... As early as 1929, Walt Disney instituted a series of promotional activities to attract children to his movies; he instituted Mickey Mouse Clubs ...
Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society, 2015
Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies tha... more Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies that were not available but 5 years ago. At the apex of this boom is the introduction of applications ("apps") for tablets and smartphones. However, there is simply not the time, money, or resources available to evaluate each app as it enters the market. Thus, "educational" apps-the number of which, as of January 2015, stood at 80,000 in Apple's App Store (Apple, 2015)-are largely unregulated and untested. This article offers a way to define the potential educational impact of current and future apps. We build upon decades of work on the Science of Learning, which has examined how children learn best. From this work, we abstract a set of principles for two ultimate goals. First, we aim to guide researchers, educators, and designers in evidence-based app development. Second, by creating an evidence-based guide, we hope to set a new standard for evaluating and selectin...
... label, describe, and ask questions (Barr, Zack, Garcia, & Muentener, 2008; DeLoache &... more ... label, describe, and ask questions (Barr, Zack, Garcia, & Muentener, 2008; DeLoache & DeMendoza, 1987; Fidler, Zack, and Barr, 2010; Namy, Acredolo, & ... In contrast to a book reading interaction, in which the parent and/or child can set the pace of the interaction, the DVD ...
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