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Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing
For many families, young children’s engagement with screen-based technology is an ongoing concern in terms of physical, social and cognitive development. They are uneasy with the difficulty children have disengaging from screens and concerned that this behavior is obsessive or a sign of addiction. H...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910179 |
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description | For many families, young children’s engagement with screen-based technology is an ongoing concern in terms of physical, social and cognitive development. They are uneasy with the difficulty children have disengaging from screens and concerned that this behavior is obsessive or a sign of addiction. However, technology is recognized as having a “rightful role” in early childhood contexts. This scoping paper reports on a review of literature relating to digital play for children aged birth to five years, with the aim of further understanding digital wellbeing. Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory serves as a theoretical framework for understanding why many young children enjoy digital play and become deeply engaged, with a disconnect between how young children and adults perceive digital play. Concerns about children’s deep immersion with digital play are interrogated to understand the connections with perceived addictive traits. The review highlights the critical importance of supporting children’s agency and digital citizenship skills from a young age, including the ability to critique content, balance screen-time with non-screen time and to develop self-control and self-regulation as a means to promote long-term positive outcomes for children in their digital lifeworlds and beyond. |
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spelling | pubmed-85076722021-10-13 Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing Johnston, Kelly Int J Environ Res Public Health Article For many families, young children’s engagement with screen-based technology is an ongoing concern in terms of physical, social and cognitive development. They are uneasy with the difficulty children have disengaging from screens and concerned that this behavior is obsessive or a sign of addiction. However, technology is recognized as having a “rightful role” in early childhood contexts. This scoping paper reports on a review of literature relating to digital play for children aged birth to five years, with the aim of further understanding digital wellbeing. Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory serves as a theoretical framework for understanding why many young children enjoy digital play and become deeply engaged, with a disconnect between how young children and adults perceive digital play. Concerns about children’s deep immersion with digital play are interrogated to understand the connections with perceived addictive traits. The review highlights the critical importance of supporting children’s agency and digital citizenship skills from a young age, including the ability to critique content, balance screen-time with non-screen time and to develop self-control and self-regulation as a means to promote long-term positive outcomes for children in their digital lifeworlds and beyond. MDPI 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8507672/ /pubmed/34639481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910179 Text en © 2021 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Johnston, Kelly Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing |
title | Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing |
title_full | Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing |
title_fullStr | Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing |
title_full_unstemmed | Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing |
title_short | Engagement and Immersion in Digital Play: Supporting Young Children’s Digital Wellbeing |
title_sort | engagement and immersion in digital play: supporting young children’s digital wellbeing |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639481 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910179 |
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