Parents” Use of Digital Gadgets with Young Children for Learning:An Exploratory Study in Singapore

This study explores Singapore parents” use of the digital gadgets with their young children in order to discern potentials and implications of devices usage with young children for early childhood learning.Parents with young children(aged 1 – 5)were interviewed on the motivation of use,expectations,and the needs being gratified.Using the uses and gratification model and the technology acceptance model,findings have indicated that parents” use of smartphones and tablets for their children”s learning is shaped by their attitude towards the devices over motivation for use or the experience of using the devices itself.
smartphones tablets digital gadgets early childhood education
Wenli Chen Ming Hui Teo
National Institute of Education,Nanyang technological University Singapore
国内会议
广州
英文
1539-1541
2018-05-26(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)