“You gotta tell the camera”
Advancing children's engineering learning opportunities through tinkering and digital storytelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21301244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren C Pagano (0000-0002-9841-9365, Northwestern University, corresponding author), Riley E George (Loyola University Chicago), David H Uttal (0000-0002-7194-4370, Northwestern University), Catherine A Haden (0000-0001-8392-9218, Loyola University Chicago) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1558-1571 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Child Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-3920 • E-ISSN: 1467-8624 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cdev.14094 |
| PMID | 38544403 |
| OpenAlex | W4393271520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 53 |
This study addressed whether combining tinkering with digital storytelling (i.e., narrating and reflecting about experiences to an imagined audience) can engender engineering learning opportunities. Eighty-four families with 5- to 10-year-old (M = 7.69) children (48% female children; 57% White, 11% Asian, 6% Black) watched a video introducing a tinkering activity and were randomly assigned either to a digital storytelling condition or a no digital storytelling condition during tinkering. After tinkering, families reflected on their tinkering experience and were randomly assigned to either engage in digital storytelling or not. Children in the digital storytelling condition during tinkering spoke most to an imagined audience during tinkering, talked most about engineering at reflection, and remembered the most information about the experience weeks later
Aesthetics · Art · Digital Storytelling · Literature · Multimedia · Narrative · Pedagogy · Reflection (computer programming) · Story telling · Storytelling · Visual arts · White (mutation) · Child Development and Digital Technology · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology
Developmental Psycholinguistics
The Culture of Education
Apprenticeship in Thinking
Digital storytelling
Elaborating on Elaborations
Coherence of Personal Narratives Across the Lifespan
Mother-child conversations about the past
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1
The Organization of Informal Learning
Noticing Learners’ Strengths Through Cultural Research
Talking about “bioluminescence” and “puppies of the ocean”
Development of episodic and autobiographical memory
Learning to remember
This is a Learning Opportunity”
Learning Science in Informal Environments
Supporting family conversations and children's STEM learning in a children's museum
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community
Media Time = Family Time”
Use of a storytelling context to improve girls' and boys' geometry skills in kindergarten
The CHILDES Project
Supporting Latine children’s informal engineering learning through tinkering and oral storytelling
Developing narrative structure in parent-child reminiscing across the preschool years
Developing narrative structure in parent–child reminiscing across the preschool years
Enhancing building, conversation, and learning through caregiver–child interactions in a children’s museum
Funds of knowledge for teaching
Digital Storytelling
Computer and Video Games in Family Life
The Narrative Construction of Reality
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |