Media usage in pre-school

"The research-intervention project Media usage in pre-school [...] has proposed a digital education experiment in preschools aimed at harmoniously integrating digital media and the touchscreen into the traditional didactic-play setting. [...] This experimentation would aim to be configured as an early educational response to the balancing of risks and opportunities related to the use of digital media; its objective is to diminish risks and strengthen opportunities. [...] the methodological framework of research proposed is articulated in the following phases: 1. Mapping of the expected competencies for preschool children based on the Ministry of Education’s “Ministerial indications for the preschool curriculum and the first cycle of education, 2012”; 2. Review and analysis of content for about 400 apps (Apple system) for constructing a didactic experimental protocol; 3. Meetings for co-designing an educational experimental protocol with teachers from the schools participating in the research, in collaboration with media educators, experts on the evaluation of competencies and on digital communication, sociologists, psychologists and educators; 4. Survey on the socio-cultural capital of families of children participating in the didactic experimentation; 5. Implementation of four experimental case studies (Yin, 2005) and comparative analysis of results." (Cortoni & Lo Presti, 2018, pp. 44-46).