Documenting young children's technology use: Observations in the home
While there has been much interest in children's use of different technologies, research is often done with school-age children in their classrooms. This exploratory research study looks at fifteen preschool children (aged three to five) in Queensland, Australia and their use of different technologies in their own homes. This paper examines data from a checklist of technologies available in the home and video recording data of children's interactions with online technologies and other people captured by parents, which were analyzed using a modified seating sweeps (Given & Leckie 2003) approach to gain a detailed, descriptive analysis of the home environment.
technology use preschool children home environment observational research