Technology, Data, and Development in Preschool Classrooms

Session Type: Pre-Conference Event

Abstract

**This is a Ticketed event. NO onsite ticket sales for this event. Tickets must be purchased in advance.**


A new generation of research is using advances in technology to understand children’s experiences in the preschool classroom. Technologies to track movement and identify speech from audio recordings is shedding new light on preschooler’s social experiences and language development. Interdisciplinary researchers from four universities will provide an overview of recent methods and findings from research utilizing these technologies. This pre-conference will (a) present replicated and emerging results from multiple lines of research; (b) provide information on how new technologies can be deployed in classrooms and community; (c) provide practical data management strategies and address measurement reliability and validity; (d) demonstrate hands-on (optional) tracking of pre-conference participants and speakers; and (e) discuss implications for addressing the needs of children with diverse strengths and developmental challenges.

This pre-conference will feature optional position tracking of participants to demonstrate social dynamics. The organizers will coordinate set-up for position tracking from 7:30-8:30 am.

Sub Unit

• SRCD Supported Pre-Conferences

Speakers

• Batya Elbaum, University of Miami

• Tiffany Jamie Foster, Ohio State University

• Hugo Gonzalez Villasanti

• Dwight Irvin, University of Kansas

• Laura M. Justice, Ohio State University

• Daniel Messinger, University of Miami

• G. Logan Pelfrey, The Ohio State University

• Lynn K Perry, University of Miami