Psychology 338YC - Lab:Young Child./iPads/Learn.

Is there a place for digital technologies in play-based early childhood education? What value, if any, stems from children playing with educational apps with their peers in classrooms? How can digital play support children's meaning-making? This course uses a hands-on research approach to explore these and related questions while engaging with young children in preschool settings. Students learn how to collect observational data of preschool children interacting with iPad apps and conduct qualitative analyses. Topics of study include social play development, social competence, peer interactions, play-based learning, digital media literacies, multimodal learning, and digital play.

Prereq: PSYCH-200 and PSYCH-230 or PSYCH-233.