Kids Wore Cameras On Their Head In Their Class, For Science!

A new study has suggested that each child in preschool have a very different experience from each other, no matter they may be in the same classroom. The researchers have documented these different and varied experiences by using a unique novel technique in the classroom where they made children wear a video camera on the top of their head for period of two hours on one day to observe what the class looks like when seen from the child's perspective.
In this study, it was recently published in PLOS ONE, that the researchers were attracted and interested in the linguistic environment, which means how were children exposed to the language in the class?
Leydi Johana Chaparro-Moreno, who is lead author of the study and a doctoral student in educational psychology at Ohio State University said that they have found out that the duration and frequency of kids' interactions with their teachers and peers was very much different among kids, he further said that overall, children had interacted more with the teacher compared to their peers, but in the case for some kids their peers were an additional source for hearing language.
She also said that what was missing in the whole was the perspective of the kids. Especially the kids in preschool classrooms suggested that each child may not be listening to the teachers at the same time or interacting in the same way.
The study had involved an overall number of 13 children, of ages 3 and 4. These were the children who attended an urban non-profit childcare centre for full-day preschool that was located in an urban community.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190828140041.htm