Tangible and Digital Materials for Spatial Play: Exploring the Effects on Parental Talk and Children's Spatial Reasoning

Autor/inn/en	Antrilli, Nick K.; Wang, Su-hua
Titel	Tangible and Digital Materials for Spatial Play: Exploring the Effects on Parental Talk and Children's Spatial Reasoning
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Technology, 54 (2023) 2, S.642-661 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wang, Su-hua)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1013
DOI	10.1111/bjet.13269
Schlagwörter	Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Play; Spatial Ability; Parent Child Relationship; Kindergarten; Puzzles; Thinking Skills; Problem Solving; Manipulative Materials; Language Usage + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Spiel; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Legespiel; Denkfähigkeit; Problemlösen; Hilfsmittel; Sprachgebrauch
Abstract	Technology is transforming children's lived experience with spatial play. In particular, parents may interact with children differently depending on whether they play together with tangible or digital materials. The present research examined whether the medium for play (tangible or digital) affected kindergarten-aged children's language experience during puzzle play and explored immediate effects on spatial reasoning. Sixty parent-child dyads played with a tangible or a digital set of tangram puzzles for 10 minutes; children received the Children's Mental Transformation Task (CMTT) before and after the play session. Their performance on the most challenging problems of the CMTT improved after tangible, but not digital, play. This effect was related to parental use of orientation and transformation words during the play session and unrelated to the success of puzzle completion. Moreover, we found that the digital interface, specifically the prescribed movements to use the app, affected parental use of deictic words (eg, here, there), and that this relation may be driven by children's production of a pointing-like action. Together, these results shed light on the interaction between material for play, parent spatial talk and children's spatial reasoning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01