Cecs 4100'001

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Cecs 4100.001
Lori Ramsey Article Review
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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• A study of 62, eight year old children to see how
  much knowledge was retained when using an
  interactive CD-ROM to tell a story.

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• Do different gender pairs cooperate better
  together?
• Does who the child works with effect his/her
  comprehension?
• Does the gender of the partner correlate to the
  enjoyment of the activity?
• Do the animations provided by the storybook
  CD-ROM distract the reader from the story?

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• Student were paired into boy/boy, boy/girl and
  girl/girl pairs.
• 10 boy/boy pairs
• 11 boy/girl pairs
• 10 girl/girl pairs
• The children read the story Arthurs Teacher
  Trouble together.

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• By video taping the children, the number of mouse
  clicks, per person were recorded as well as the
  conversations of the pairs.
• There were more clicks on animation than page
  turning or specific words.
• The stories written by the students did not
  include these animations.

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• Four categories of commentspositive
  socio-emotional, task specific helping, task
  specific requests, or negative
  socio-emotional.
• Boy/boy groups enjoyed the project better than
  the boy/girl groups.

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• One week later, each child was given a 30 minute
  story comprehension test.
• Four weeks after the test, they were asked to
  write a short story about Arthur.

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• Girls were able to recall twice as many facts
  about the story as did boys.
• No matter which pair the girls worked in, they
  scored higher in the comprehension test.
• Girls in the boy/girl pairs, did not have as
  strong of memories as those in the girl/girl
  pairs.

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Childrens Interactions with Talking Books

• Computers Education 1998, Vol. 30 pp. 95-102
  Childrens Interactions and Learning Outcomes
  with Interactive Talking Books by Underwood, G.
  and Underwood, J.