Educational Affordances of Online Games for Preschoolers
Authors:Â Nikolayev, S. Reich, T. Muskat, N. Tadjbakhsh, & M. Powell Callaghan
Many online games for preschool aged children market themselves as educational. However, little is known about the educational affordances of these activities and the developmental appropriateness of their design. This study is an in-depth, systematic content analysis of preschool online games offered by the three more popular networks for young children, PBS kids, Nickelodeon Jr., and Disney Jr.