Children Can Learn New Facts Equally Well From Interactive Media Versus Face to Face Instruction.

ABSTRACT: Today's children have more opportunities than ever before to learn from interactive technology, yet experimental research assessing the efficacy of children's learning from interactive media in comparison to traditional learning approaches is still quite scarce. Moreover, little work has examined the efficacy of using touch-screen devices for research purposes. The current study compared children's rate of learning factual information about animals during a face-to-face instruction from an adult female researcher versus an analogous instruction from an interactive device. Eighty-six children ages 4 through 8 years (64% male) completed the learning task in either the Face-to-Face condition (n = 43) or the Interactive Media condition (n = 43). In the Learning Phase of the exper

SUBMITTER: Kwok K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5078753 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature