Just Google It: Young Children's Preferences for Touchscreens versus Books in Hypothetical Learning Tasks.

ABSTRACT: Children today regularly interact with touchscreen devices (Rideout, 2013) and thousands of "educational" mobile applications are marketed to them (Shuler, 2012). Understanding children's own ideas about optimal learning has important implications for education, which is being transformed by electronic mobile devices, yet we know little about how children think about such devices, including what children think touchscreens are useful for. Based on a prior result that children prefer a book over a touchscreen for learning about dogs, the present study explored how children view touchscreens versus books for learning an array of different types of information. Seventy children ages 3-6 were presented with six different topics (cooking, today's weather, trees, vacuums, Virginia, and yesterday

SUBMITTER: Eisen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031770 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature