Playful learning with sound‐augmented toys: comparing children with and without visual impairment.
Sound‐augmented toys producing factual knowledge were thought to encourage incidental, playful learning in children with visual impairments (VIs). A group of 15 children with VIs and 22 sighted controls played with a sound‐augmented savannah landscape and listened to an informative story in a counte...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 147 - 160 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=142100942&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 142100942 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02664909 6M1 jtl: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning issn: 02664909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2020 vid: 36 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 142100942 142100942 145807770 142100942 10.1111/jcal.12393 142100942 ppf: 147 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: Playful learning with sound‐augmented toys: comparing children with and without visual impairment. aug: au: Verver, Suzanne H. Vervloed, Mathijs P.J. Yuill, Nicola Steenbergen, Bert affil: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands sug: subj: Vision Disorders Therapy Augmented Reality Utilization Play and Playthings Learning Methods Education, Special Human Randomized Controlled Trials Random Assignment Pretest-Posttest Design Schools, Elementary Child Male Female Knowledge Questionnaires Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Nonparametric Statistics T-Tests One-Way Analysis of Variance Multivariate Statistics Mann-Whitney U Test Funding Source Child: 6-12 years Male Female ab: Sound‐augmented toys producing factual knowledge were thought to encourage incidental, playful learning in children with visual impairments (VIs). A group of 15 children with VIs and 22 sighted controls played with a sound‐augmented savannah landscape and listened to an informative story in a counterbalanced order. Children's knowledge about savannah animals was assessed at baseline and after each condition in order to quantitatively compare knowledge gains between conditions. Results indicated that children with VIs gained more knowledge than sighted controls from playing with the sound‐augmented toy. Furthermore, offering both the augmented toy and the informative story led to higher knowledge gains than a single medium, especially in children with VIs. Sound‐augmented toys could therefore be a useful addition to the current curriculum in special education for children with VIs. Lay Description: What is already known about this topic: Game‐based learning is becoming more popular as educational context.Children with visual impairments are often unable to benefit from a predominantly visual learning context.Augmented environments encourage exploratory learning by enhancing physical materials with technology.Sound‐augmented toys might encourage playful learning in children with visual impairments. What this paper adds: This empirical study compared an innovative sound‐augmented toy with traditional verbal instruction.Both children with visual impairments and a sighted comparison group participated.The targeted learning outcome was factual knowledge about animals.Children gained comparable knowledge from the augmented environment as from verbal instruction.The augmented toy was a more effective learning context for children with visual impairments than in sighted children. Implications for practice and/or policy: Sound‐augmented environments encourage object interaction and playful learning in children with visual impairments.Sound‐augmented toys can be a useful addition to the current curriculum of children with visual impairments in special education. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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