What is it about?
We completed a scoping review of digital technologies' role in early childhood nature connection. We describe the current research and make recommendations which are relevant for researchers, tech designers, and practitioners working with children.
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Why is it important?
This scoping review provides an overview of research with child-nature-technology interactions in the last ten years. It offers directions for future studies on child-nature connectedness and technology design to ensure that we can best identify the effectiveness of different approaches and extend child-centred participation, as well as explore novel approaches that align with nature connection frameworks.
Perspectives
There is much opportunity to support children to connect with the natural world. Exploring recent research relating to how this can potentially be facilitated through digitech was really interesting - especially since it creates the chance to reflect upon how children engage across these different environments, acknowledging the points of intersection and interaction (rather than thinking of time in nature and time with digitech as mutually exclusive!)
Associate Professor Madeleine Rose Dobson
Curtin University
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This page is a summary of: Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, December 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100619.
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