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Use of Digital Tools by Preschool Children: Preliminary Results

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Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society (ECIL 2016)

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Abstract

Nowadays, preschool children are growing up at ease with technology and become familiar with the use of digital devices such iPads, tablets, computers and mobile phones very early in their lives. Therefore, children are expected to develop different literacy skills [1]. The aim of the study is to explore the use of digital tools by preschool children. The results of the study contribute to a better understanding of how children cope with visual and textual searching, provide useful feedback on how to encourage children to become lifelong learners and further our understanding of age differences in children and adult learning along with the impact of ICTs on children’s learning.

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  1. Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioanna-Ersi Pervolaraki, Emmanouel Garoufallou, Rania Siatri & Georgia Zafeiriou

  2. Alcala University, Madrid, Spain

    Ioanna-Ersi Pervolaraki, Emmanouel Garoufallou & Stavroula Antonopoulou

  3. School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sirje Virkus

  4. American Farm School, Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stavroula Antonopoulou

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Pervolaraki, IE., Garoufallou, E., Siatri, R., Zafeiriou, G., Virkus, S., Antonopoulou, S. (2016). Use of Digital Tools by Preschool Children: Preliminary Results. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_45

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