ABSTRACT

The use of touchscreen mobile devices in early childhood education has gained considerable attention. Several studies have been conducted to investigate the impacts of touchscreen mobile devices on children's cognitive and affective development. Researchers have further indicated the need to probe in which contexts children can learn effectively with touchscreen mobile devices. Therefore, this paper reviewed the studies related to the use of touchscreen mobile devices for children published in the Web of Science database from 2010 to 2019. A total of 45 studies were selected and analyzed based on the technology-based learning model. Accordingly, several dimensions, such as application domain, research method and research issues, and the attitudes of teachers, parents and young children, were taken into account. The results showed that (1) 35% studies applied touchscreen mobile devices for young children's language skills development; (2) the quantitative research method is the most commonly adopted; (3) children's cognitive development received the most attention among all the research issues; and (4) young children generally like to use touchscreen mobile devices to learn. Moreover, teachers' and parents' concerns about young children's use of touchscreen mobile devices are analyzed, and future trends in integrating ICT in early childhood education are discussed.

摘要

触摸屏移动设备在幼儿教育中的使用受到了相当大的关注。已经进行了几项研究来调查触摸屏移动设备对儿童认知和情感发展的影响。研究人员进一步指出，有必要探索儿童可以在哪些环境下使用触摸屏移动设备进行有效学习。因此，本文回顾了 2010 年至 2019 年 Web of Science 数据库中发表的与儿童使用触摸屏移动设备相关的研究，共筛选出 45 项研究，基于技术为基础的学习模型进行分析。因此，考虑了应用领域、研究方法和研究问题以及教师、家长和幼儿的态度等几个维度。结果表明：（1）35%的研究将触摸屏移动设备用于幼儿语言技能的发展；(2) 定量研究方法最常采用；(3)儿童认知发展是所有研究问题中关注最多的；(4) 幼儿普遍喜欢使用触屏移动设备学习。此外，分析了教师和家长对幼儿使用触摸屏移动设备的担忧，并讨论了将信息通信技术融入幼儿教育的未来趋势。(4) 幼儿普遍喜欢使用触屏移动设备学习。此外，分析了教师和家长对幼儿使用触摸屏移动设备的担忧，并讨论了将信息通信技术融入幼儿教育的未来趋势。(4) 幼儿普遍喜欢使用触屏移动设备学习。此外，分析了教师和家长对幼儿使用触摸屏移动设备的担忧，并讨论了将信息通信技术融入幼儿教育的未来趋势。