2-Year-Olds Learning From 2D Media With and Without Parental Support : Comparing Two Forms of Joint Media Engagement With Passive Viewing and Learning From 3D

Copyright © 2021 Heimann, Hedendahl, Ottmer, Kolling, Koch, Birberg Thornberg and Sundqvist..

The study investigates to what degree two different joint media engagement (JME) strategies affect children's learning from two-dimensional (2D)-media. More specifically, we expected an instructed JME strategy to be more effective than a spontaneous, non-instructed, JME strategy. Thirty-five 2-year old children saw a short video on a tablet demonstrating memory tasks together with a parent. The parents were randomized into two groups: One group (N = 17) was instructed to help their child by describing the actions they saw on the video while the other group (N = 18) received no specific instruction besides "do as you usually do." The parents in the instructed group used significantly more words and verbs when supporting their child but both groups of children did equally well on the memory test. In a second step, we compared the performance of the two JME groups with an opportunistic comparison group (N = 95) tested with half of the memory tasks live and half of the tasks on 2D without any JME support. Results showed that the JME intervention groups received significantly higher recall scores than the no JME 2D comparison group. In contrast, the three-dimensional (3D) comparison group outperformed both JME groups. In sum, our findings suggest that JME as implemented here is more effective in promoting learning than a no JME 2D demonstration but less so than the standard 3D presentation of the tasks.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in psychology - 11(2020) vom: 07., Seite 576940

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Heimann, Mikael [VerfasserIn]
Hedendahl, Louise [VerfasserIn]
Ottmer, Elida [VerfasserIn]
Kolling, Thorsten [VerfasserIn]
Koch, Felix-Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Birberg Thornberg, Ulrika [VerfasserIn]
Sundqvist, Annette [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Deferred imitation
Digital media
Joint media engagement
Journal Article
Learning
Memory

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Date Revised 12.02.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576940

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321291263