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Mobile Learning Applications in Early Childhood Education
foundational competencies including communication, cooperation, social interactions and engagement with others.
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Social Hazards or Helpers?: The Role of Mobile Media in Early Childhood Social Development
Courtney K. Blackwell (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1486-3.ch014
Abstract
This chapter reviews current theoretical and empirical work on associations between young children's mobile media use in early childhood education settings and their social development, including social relationships and foundational social skills such as communication, collaboration, and positive social interactions and engagement. Touchscreen tablets are highlighted given their increased presence in early childhood education as well as their unique affordances specifically for young children. Particular attention is paid to factors influencing whether, what, and how educators integrate tablets into their classroom environments; facilitators and barriers to integration; how such integration may enable or interfere with social skills and relationships; and implications for practice and policy.
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The Role of Bibliotherapy and Therapeutic Storytelling in Creating Inclusive Classroom Communities
The interpersonal skills facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, learned, and adapted in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called socialization.
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Robotics Applications in the Training of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Skills that enable humans to interact with each other; these include both verbal and non-verbal communication.
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Creativity and Autism Spectrum Disorder
The skills people usually use to interact and communicate with others. These include both verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression, and body language.
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Service Learning: The Essence of Social Inclusivity Through Transformational Education
These abilities are related to being capable to interact in the collective, it may be a group, a team, informal and formal. These skills include listening, greeting, thanking, asking please, expressing thanks, apologizing, waiting one’s turn, cooperating, maintaining an attitude open to dialogue. These skills are the infrastructure of social intelligence and allow to manage, understand and balance the social system. It develops the person and his relationship with others, balancing the relational and social systems and becomes an immaterial social capital, sometimes referred to as social intelligence. This intelligence is a mechanism for improving social problems. Social skills are structuring for the new economy that is concerned with social issues and with the attunement of life as a “whole.” They are based on axioms of harmony and cooperation and consider that the processes of formation do not serve the principles of accumulation of information, but rather the development of life skills and their sustainability. They capitalize on individual, group and organizational performance, because they aim at unity and synchronicity. They seek to give life to the characteristics of acceptance and respect for the person as a whole. It also seeks to integrate people's knowledge into the processes of relationships and productive processes, not forgetting the environment and the community where it is inserted. With social skills, people are more empathic, more flexible, more caring and more responsible. They combine personal responsibility with social responsibility and aim to improve well-being, active, participatory, critical, responsible and committed citizenship. They help achieve balance, make better decisions, respect efficiency and raise emotional, social and personal well-being. In this sense, the social skills deliver deeply felt experiences for human existence, because it gives life to the spiritual realm, which considers that man is composed of body, mind, spirit and transcendence.
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Differentiated Animated Social Stories to Enhance Social Skills Acquisition of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Interactive skills which we acquire by socializing with people in the society, use to communicate and significantly build relationship with people in the society.
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Helping Early-Career General Education Teachers Understand Students With Special Needs
Personal skills one needs in order to interact with others (e.g., shaking hands, nodding one’s head in recognition of another individual, looking at a person’s face when they are speaking, nodding and smiling when understanding what the other person is saying, etc.).
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A Proposal of a Gamified Physical Education Lesson to Enhance Social and Emotional Skills in Primary Education
The skills needed to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression, and body language.
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Interpersonal Emotion Regulation: Insights From the Virtual Reality Field
The set of abilities to successfully communicate, interact and build relationships with others.
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Blended Social Skills Intervention for Students Identified as Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed
One’s ability to competently read social cues and solve problems in social situations.
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Communication 2.0 at School: A Way to Connect Teachers and Students
The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.
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Journalism and Communication at School in Order to Form Critical Citizens
The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.
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Teaching Collaboration Skills to Foster Social-Emotional Learning
Social skills are competencies that include empathy, cooperation, verbal, and written communication, listening and speaking. Students learn these competencies with socialization.
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The Effect of Innovative Communication Technologies in Higher Education
Competencies to interact successfully with other people. Innovative communication technologies may contribute to this successful interaction.
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Assistive Technologies and Design for People With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Selective Overview
Any competence facilitating communication and interaction with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and managed in verbal and nonverbal ways.
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Mouse-Less Cursor Control for Quadriplegic and Autistic Patients Using Artificial Intelligence
Skills used to communicate and interact with each other including speech, gesture, body language, etc.
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Art and Didactics in Virtual Worlds: How Technology Can Activate Social Skills
The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.
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Social Skills and Online Learning
A set of competences underpinning communication and interaction in group-level and society-level. Social skills include communication skills, emotion regulation skills, cognitive skills, and social problem-solving skills.
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Competences and Learning Profiles of Digital Age's Students
The set of skills that allow students to communicate, relate and socialize with others.
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High-Leverage Practices for All Students
Personal skills one needs in order to interact with others (e.g., shaking hands, nodding one’s head in recognition of another individual, looking at a person’s face when they are speaking, nodding and smiling when understanding what the other person is saying, etc.).
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Overcoming Educational Challenges Through Social and Emotional Learning: Significance for the Whole Child
Skills that are used to communicate both verbally and nonverbally through gestures, body language, and personal appearance. Social skills are the abilities necessary to get along with others to create and maintain relationships.
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Teen Dating Violence Prevention Based on an Education for Intercultural and Critical Citizenship
They are the set of behavioural strategies and capacities to apply the said behaviours that help us to solve a social situation effectively, that is, acceptable to the subject itself and to the social context in which it is. This shows that the development of social skills has a significant influence to reduce risk behaviours.
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The Role of Teachers in Peer Bullying
It is defined as verbal or non-verbal behaviors that initiate and maintain social relations, facilitate the solution of problems experienced in social relations
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Virtual Reality Therapy: The Power of Role-Playing Social Skills
The term refers to the skills and behaviors that allow an individual to interact with others in an effective and harmonious manner in a variety of social settings. As such it includes a range of communication, empathy, cooperation, and conflict-resolution skills that facilitate positive social interactions.
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Developing Educators' Global Leadership Competencies through Intercultural Immersion Experiences: Theory and Practice
Ability to motivate people to pursue excellence, manage conflicts, and build strong teamwork skills.
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The Challenges of Vocational Training for Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder
A term referring to communication with other people daily in a variety of ways including verbal, nonverbal, written, and visual. Collaboration, personal relationships, and teamwork are included too.
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Social Interaction Through Structured Play Activities and Games in Early Childhood
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A Tough Nut to Crack: Measuring Collaborative Problem Solving
Skills acquired in social networks that may affect group as well as individual performance.
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