An Interactive device for kids that capture language learning opportunities in everyday grocery shopping experience
What is Smart
Shopping Pal?
What are they going to learn?Develop pre-reading concepts
Strengthen oral language skills
Word-name correspondenceLetter-sound correspondence
Build connection with words and concepts in meaningful waysEnlarge vocabulary
By hands-on experience with the real objects and interacting with the computer by playing learning activities (games) in a authentic setting.
How will they learn?
Experiential Education
Emergent Literacy Perspective
Theoretical Background
A process in which the child constructs concepts about the functions of symbols and print, is based on meaningful language facilitated by interactions.
1. Experiential Education
Theoretical Background
Hands On Experience• PLAY emphasis on physical activity• Physical interaction with tangible objects in
authentic environment• Immersion into structured experience• Children internalize what is occurring through
sense• Fosters linguistic input into comprehensible input
2. Emergent Literacy Perspective
Theoretical Background
Young children constructs concepts about the functions of symbols and print is based on experiences and meaningful language facilitated by interactions.
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Child as an Active Learner
The role of the adult is to facilitate and extend child-initiated learning (Vygotsky, 1978)
2. Emergent Literacy Perspective
Theoretical Background
Constructive (Clay 1991; Heibert & Fisher 1990; Rex 1994)
Functional (Gibson 1989; Neuman & Roskos 1993)
Interactive Process (Harste et al. 1988, Morrow & Rand 1991)
Design Process
• Observation at stores of different settings– Walmart, Whole Foods, Albertsons, Costco, Safeway, Molliestones
• Interviews with preschool moms
Design Process
• Task relatively short and varied ~ (Larkin, 2002)• Chance to explore ~ (Egloff, 2004)• Know alphabet letters are a visual graphic (Regalado et al. 2001)• Understand and follow oral directions
• Knows an average of 1500 words of vocabulary
• Sentence structures incorporate up to 8 words
Design Process
• Bing Nursery school “children learn through play in a context-friendly environment”
• Former school teacher “easy activities will involve higher participation and the sense of accomplishment”
Design Process
• Enlarge button size
• Strong attention on screen
• Desire for repetition
• Animation elevates interest
• Ego centric questions enhance participation
Ashley, 3 yrs
Joyce, 3 yrs
Assessment
• Short-term– Recordings of kids in supermarket:
with and without Smart Shopping Pal– Measures: Descriptive words used, count of
words said by the kid, count of words heard by the kid
• Long-term– Tracking two groups of kids across time:
with and without Smart Shopping Pal– Measures: Sampling of vocabulary and word
recognition, count of parental inputs