Children's engagement with educational iPad apps: Insights from a Spanish classroom

Computers and Education

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-184

  Kucirkova, Natalia ^a   Messer, David ^a   Sheehy, Kieron ^a   Fernández Panadero, Carmen ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Educational apps; Engagement with software; Exploratory talk; iPad apps; Pre school

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INDICES; EDUCATIONAL APPS; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; EXPLORATORY TALKS; IPAD APPS; PRE SCHOOLS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE INDICES;

ACCIDENTS; EDUCATION; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; TAXONOMIES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84887095689     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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