Although there are some approaches to "listening to young children" in ECEC, it is difficult to keep track of children's messages on a daily basis. We have developed an app to record voluntary reports from nursery school children and conducted empirical studies to see if it could help care-givers to “listen” to their children. We installed a tablet with the app installed in the 5-year-old class of three preschools in Japan, and asked the children to record what they wanted to record at their favorite timing. The app records one photo and 20 seconds of video each time. Over the course of five months, 288 records have been collected. From the records, it was found that the children devised and recorded what they liked and achieved. The teacher was unable to make good use of the app's records due to the immaturity of the app's retrospective function. However, I heard from the teacher that he noticed a child who was often overlooked.

Development and utilization of tablet apps that record spontaneously reports of preschool children