TY - GEN
T1 - Early childhood educators' attitudes towards use of educational media in young children's learning in Australia
AU - Disney, Leigh
AU - Geng, Gretchen
AU - Barnes, Alan
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - This paper examined early childhood educators' attitudes towards the use of educational media in young children's learning in child care centres in Australia. This study firstly investigated what educational media are currently used in child care centres in Australia. Then a questionnaire was administrated to twenty early childhood educators in three child care centres to explore their attitudes towards the use of educational centres in child care centres. The major findings include a) children were provided access to some media devices such as television, DVD player, computer, Internet and Smartboard in child care centres; b) educators thought the use of educational media could be used to teach literacy, numeracy, science, art and physical education, and c) educators agreed the use of educational media could be used within children's five domains of development, which include cognitive development, gross motor skills development, fine motor skills development, language development, and social development. Early childhood educators and parents of young children will find this paper useful in understanding early childhood educators and their use of educational media in educational settings in Australia.
AB - This paper examined early childhood educators' attitudes towards the use of educational media in young children's learning in child care centres in Australia. This study firstly investigated what educational media are currently used in child care centres in Australia. Then a questionnaire was administrated to twenty early childhood educators in three child care centres to explore their attitudes towards the use of educational centres in child care centres. The major findings include a) children were provided access to some media devices such as television, DVD player, computer, Internet and Smartboard in child care centres; b) educators thought the use of educational media could be used to teach literacy, numeracy, science, art and physical education, and c) educators agreed the use of educational media could be used within children's five domains of development, which include cognitive development, gross motor skills development, fine motor skills development, language development, and social development. Early childhood educators and parents of young children will find this paper useful in understanding early childhood educators and their use of educational media in educational settings in Australia.
KW - Attitudes
KW - Early childhood education
KW - Educators
KW - iPads
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85039924204&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85039924204
T3 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015
SP - 673
EP - 678
BT - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015
A2 - Ogata, Hiroaki
A2 - Chen, Weiqin
A2 - Kong, Siu Cheung
A2 - Qiu, Feiyue
PB - Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015
Y2 - 30 November 2015 through 4 December 2015
ER -
