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Digital technology empowering young children as museum visitors

This presentation aims to give insights into the behaviors of young children while using a mobile educational app in an art museum as an informal learning context and emphasize the impact of the use of such technology on young children as museum visitors. Research was carried out at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and was based on multimodal and constructivist learning theories, drawing most significantly on Falk and Dierking’s contextual model of learning. Research participants were seven- and eight-year-olds who visited the museum with a parent, at times accompanied with a younger or older sibling. Research data were collected through participating observation by focusing on the interaction between the research participants and the digital resource used by them, the physical space of the museum and their parents. Interviews were conducted with the parents and children after the visit with the aim to explore their experiences with technology in the museum and at home. Results show a positive impact of the app on the children’s experience in that it motivated them to explore self-sufficiently and self-confidently the space of the museum and displayed objects, and that it facilitated autonomous learning experience and pride in the gained knowledge

art museum, informal learning, app, digital literacy, children

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