Advisor

• Dr. Joan Hughes

Degree

• Masters

Abstract

As technology advances and becomes an integral part of our life, concerns arise because of the inequity technology has unintendedly created especially reflected in the form of usage gap between different groups of learners and families. Parents who have young children and less knowledge of digital literacy and skills are suffering more from anxieties about children’s screen time and technology use at home. In terms of content area learning, there is a severe lack of quality science education resources for young children and that hinders children’s early exposure to science literacy. In this report, I reviewed research-based evidence for the need to develop technology-infused science education resources for parents of young children and then created a series of 10 lesson plans to help parents gain insights about technology integration for science learning at home for young kids and increase their confidence about the value of technology when used in content-rich ways.