Abstract

This paper describes a French research project to co-design an early literacy/early numeracy tablet app for kindergarten students. In order to create an app that takes into account classroom/teaching constraints and the results of recent research, we adopted a theoretical co-design framework and followed a methodology involving researchers, education professionals and software engineers. We describe the design process and the app’s educational content, together with the results of an initial trial of the app on a small sample of preschoolers, which showed that it is ready for larger scale testing. We conclude by discussing the specificities of our project and its contribution to the literature on the development of classroom apps for preschoolers.

摘要

本文介绍了一项法国研究项目，旨在为幼儿园学生共同设计早期识字/早期计算平板电脑应用。为了创建一个考虑课堂/教学约束和最新研究结果的应用，我们采用了理论上的共同设计框架，并采用了由研究人员，教育专业人员和软件工程师参与的方法。我们描述了设计过程和该应用程序的教育内容，以及对该应用程序的一小部分学龄前儿童的初步试用结果，表明该产品已准备就绪，可以进行大规模测试。最后，我们讨论了该项目的特殊性及其对学龄前儿童课堂应用开发文献的贡献。