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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...
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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 |
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author | Romano, Mollie Perez, Katherine Abarca, Diana |
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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. |
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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 |
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