Cargando…

The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers

High-quality early care and education is a known protective factor for infants and toddlers who experience early childhood poverty, especially for early communication outcomes. However, the quality of care is variable in the United States, and efforts to increase the quality of interactions is imped...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Romano, Mollie, Perez, Katherine, Abarca, Diana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9676850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36439905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01426-y
_version_ 1784833684059193344
author Romano, Mollie
Perez, Katherine
Abarca, Diana
author_facet Romano, Mollie
Perez, Katherine
Abarca, Diana
author_sort Romano, Mollie
collection PubMed
description High-quality early care and education is a known protective factor for infants and toddlers who experience early childhood poverty, especially for early communication outcomes. However, the quality of care is variable in the United States, and efforts to increase the quality of interactions is impeded by cost and high rates of turnover in the field. In this paper, we explore a low-cost, light touch social media intervention that uses the TikTok platform to increase infant–toddler teachers’ (ITTs) knowledge of early communication and social interactions while validating the important role that ITTs play in the lives of young children. We use a mixed method, pre-post design to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the BabyTok project from the vantage point of the ITT participants. Teachers offered positive feedback about the content, delivery of the intervention through TikTok and the impact on their feelings about their role in helping young children learn. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10643-022-01426-y.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9676850
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Springer Netherlands
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-96768502022-11-21 The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers Romano, Mollie Perez, Katherine Abarca, Diana Early Child Educ J Article High-quality early care and education is a known protective factor for infants and toddlers who experience early childhood poverty, especially for early communication outcomes. However, the quality of care is variable in the United States, and efforts to increase the quality of interactions is impeded by cost and high rates of turnover in the field. In this paper, we explore a low-cost, light touch social media intervention that uses the TikTok platform to increase infant–toddler teachers’ (ITTs) knowledge of early communication and social interactions while validating the important role that ITTs play in the lives of young children. We use a mixed method, pre-post design to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the BabyTok project from the vantage point of the ITT participants. Teachers offered positive feedback about the content, delivery of the intervention through TikTok and the impact on their feelings about their role in helping young children learn. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10643-022-01426-y. Springer Netherlands 2022-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9676850/ /pubmed/36439905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01426-y Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Article
Romano, Mollie
Perez, Katherine
Abarca, Diana
The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers
title The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers
title_full The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers
title_fullStr The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers
title_full_unstemmed The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers
title_short The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers
title_sort babytok project: examining the feasibility and acceptability of a light-touch social media project for infant–toddler teachers
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9676850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36439905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01426-y
work_keys_str_mv AT romanomollie thebabytokprojectexaminingthefeasibilityandacceptabilityofalighttouchsocialmediaprojectforinfanttoddlerteachers
AT perezkatherine thebabytokprojectexaminingthefeasibilityandacceptabilityofalighttouchsocialmediaprojectforinfanttoddlerteachers
AT abarcadiana thebabytokprojectexaminingthefeasibilityandacceptabilityofalighttouchsocialmediaprojectforinfanttoddlerteachers
AT romanomollie babytokprojectexaminingthefeasibilityandacceptabilityofalighttouchsocialmediaprojectforinfanttoddlerteachers
AT perezkatherine babytokprojectexaminingthefeasibilityandacceptabilityofalighttouchsocialmediaprojectforinfanttoddlerteachers
AT abarcadiana babytokprojectexaminingthefeasibilityandacceptabilityofalighttouchsocialmediaprojectforinfanttoddlerteachers