Laranjeiro Dionísia, Antunes Maria João, Santos Paula
CIDTFF - Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers, Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
DigiMedia, Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
SN Comput Sci. 2023;4(3):278. doi: 10.1007/s42979-023-01666-8. Epub 2023 Mar 23.
Parental involvement in preschool education is widely recognized as an important factor in skills development, school outcomes and lifelong success, and can be promoted through digital technologies, which offer new forms of communication and collaboration between parents and educators, and new learning opportunities for children. This research aimed to develop and test a digital platform with communication and content sharing functionalities between parents and educators, and to assess the impact of using the platform in three participating institutions. The research question guiding the efforts was: what features and contents should a multimedia platform have to promote parental involvement in the learning of children who attend kindergarten? The research was developed according to a design-based research methodology, and the parents and educators were involved in all phases of the process: preliminary study, development and evaluation. The results showed that the sharing of activities carried out with children in kindergarten and a private messaging service were the most valued functionalities. Regarding local impact, different results were obtained in each kindergarten, related to the roles assumed by the users within the platform, and previous practices of using technologies for parental involvement.
家长参与学前教育被广泛认为是技能发展、学业成果和终身成功的一个重要因素，并且可以通过数字技术来促进，数字技术为家长和教育工作者之间提供了新的沟通与协作形式，也为孩子们提供了新的学习机会。本研究旨在开发并测试一个具备家长与教育工作者之间沟通及内容共享功能的数字平台，并评估在三个参与机构中使用该平台的影响。指导此项工作的研究问题是：一个多媒体平台应具备哪些功能和内容，以促进家长参与幼儿园儿童的学习？该研究是根据基于设计的研究方法开展的，家长和教育工作者参与了整个过程的各个阶段：初步研究、开发和评估。结果表明，分享在幼儿园与孩子一起开展的活动以及私人消息服务是最受重视的功能。关于本地影响，每个幼儿园都得到了不同的结果，这与用户在平台中所扮演的角色以及之前使用技术促进家长参与的做法有关。
