Emerging technology to promote physical activity and health for young children in a kindergarten in Hangzhou, China

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	Emerging technology to promote physical activity and health for young children in a kindergarten in Hangzhou, China
	Li, Z. A.; Lei, S. M.; Wong, S. P.
	2018-05-09
Source Publication	International Early Childhood Physical Education Symposium
Publication Place	Beijing
Abstract	Educators worried about the increasing young population staying with inactive life nowadays ,based on the findings of reviewed by Temmel and Rhodes (2013), not only the western researchers would aware the inactive life, but also the Asia would concern the relationship among inactive (sedentary, sitting and screen time etc.) fitness, self-esteem, and academic achievement. With the continuous updating and progress of electronic products, could be used in early childhood education, and the popularization of physical activities data are also kind of inspiration for early childhood physical education. The purpose of this study are to examine the feasibility of using technology, wearable activity tracker to collect data and record for young children (age range 3-6 years), to investigate the relationship among those data of physical activities (PA), BMI and quality of napping in kindergarten, and indicate and reflect the health status for children, teachers and parents to involve, motivate and promote the healthy and active life in kindergarten. (This is one of the sub studies registered as big data research in National Educational Technology Research Platform.)
Keyword	young children BMI Napping wearable activity tracker physical activity
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	40631
Document Type	Conference paper
Collection	Faculty of Education
Corresponding Author	Lei, S. M.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Li, Z. A.,Lei, S. M.,Wong, S. P.. Emerging technology to promote physical activity and health for young children in a kindergarten in Hangzhou, China[C], Beijing, 2018.
APA	Li, Z. A.., Lei, S. M.., & Wong, S. P. (2018). Emerging technology to promote physical activity and health for young children in a kindergarten in Hangzhou, China. International Early Childhood Physical Education Symposium.

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