Exploring Parent Use of Early STEM Media to Inform Design for Children

ABSTRACT

This paper explores how parents identify and use science and math media to engage their preschool children in informal science and math learning. Through an interview study, we examine parental beliefs about media's role in their preschool-aged children's science and math learning. We report how parents approach finding and incorporating different forms of media into their child's informal learning and conclude with a discussion of design implications for creating educational media for preschool-aged children.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Education

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)