No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00023-1
Κλεοπάτρα Νικολοπούλου
{"title":"Child-centered integration of generative AI in early learning: balancing promises and challenges","authors":"Κλεοπάτρα Νικολοπούλου","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00023-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00023-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming educational contexts, yet its role in early childhood education (ECE) raises complex issues regarding developmental appropriateness, ethics, and equity. ECE deserves special attention because it represents a uniquely sensitive and formative stage of human development. This conceptual paper examines the promises and challenges of integrating GenAI into early learning environments, emphasizing both opportunities for innovation and the need for critical safeguards. The discussion highlights potential benefits, including personalized and adaptive learning, enhanced multimodal storytelling, support for play-based pedagogy, and teacher workload reduction. These opportunities, however, are moderated by challenges and risks such as overreliance on screen-based interactions, displacement of play and social relationships, inequitable access, algorithmic bias, and threats to children’s privacy and safety. To address these tensions, the paper situates GenAI within developmental psychology, sociocultural learning theory, educational technology frameworks, and ethical paradigms. Policy and practice implications are outlined, stressing the importance of regulation, equity-focused infrastructure, teacher professional development, and culturally responsive curriculum design. The paper concludes with recommendations for educators, policymakers, and researchers, and introduces a conceptual framework for “Child-Centered GenAI Integration,” arguing that developmental appropriateness, ethical safeguards, and sociocultural mediation must work together to ensure child-centered GenAI use in ECE.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00023-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147918071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00016-0
Jennifer J. Chen, Hui Li
{"title":"AI and the developing child: ethical and conceptual considerations, and practical frameworks for early childhood education","authors":"Jennifer J. Chen, Hui Li","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00016-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00016-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00016-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147920047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00012-4
Zhuoyun Joy Cai, Grace Yaxin Xing, Yuya Yamamoto, X. Christine Wang
{"title":"From Piaget to posthumanism: critical review of conceptualization of AI in early childhood education","authors":"Zhuoyun Joy Cai, Grace Yaxin Xing, Yuya Yamamoto, X. Christine Wang","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00012-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00012-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into early childhood education (ECE), reshaping how young children learn and develop. While existing studies have explored AI’s practical applications in ECE, they often overlook the critical conceptualization necessary to deepen our understanding of its role in this field. To address this gap, we critically reviewed 34 studies on AI in ECE, adapting Kafai and Proctor’s (2022) cognitive, situated, and critical framings of computational thinking. Our analysis investigates how these studies conceptualize “learning with AI” and “learning about AI” and address foundational questions of “who,” “what,” and “how” in AI education for young children. The findings reveal a strong emphasis on cognitive and situated framings, which focus on individual and contextual applications of AI. However, a critical perspective addressing broader societal impacts and equity concerns is lacking. To bridge this gap, we propose a posthumanist perspective, framing AI as a new ontological category, and advocate for the ethic of care framework in designing AI learning experiences. These approaches aim to foster a sustainable and socially responsible ecosystem for early learning with and about AI.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00012-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147894824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00010-6
Jin Liu, Miao Chen, Huihua He, Hongze Liu, Wenwei Luo, Hui Li
{"title":"Forms and functions innovation: a scoping review of digital and intelligence technologies in early childhood education practice","authors":"Jin Liu, Miao Chen, Huihua He, Hongze Liu, Wenwei Luo, Hui Li","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00010-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00010-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This scoping review examines the integration of digital and intelligent technologies in early childhood education (ECE) from 2010 to 2024, analyzing 29 selected empirical studies, focusing on algorithmic approaches and logic for ECE. While prior research has emphasized data-driven outcomes, pedagogical practices, and ethical challenges, this study addresses a critical gap by systematically analyzing the underlying algorithms, implementation forms, and functional roles of intelligent technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning (ML), virtual reality (VR), data mining, and robotics. The review highlights how these technologies address challenges in ECE, such as health diagnostics, personalized learning, safety, and equity while underscoring persistent limitations, including security vulnerabilities, insufficient interdisciplinary integration, and a lack of longitudinal efficacy studies. Contributions include a taxonomy of algorithmic functions and implementation patterns, offering stakeholders foundational insights for evidence-based technology adoption. Future directions may include analyzing recent technology advancement in ECE, for example, “digital twins” for child development, AI-driven adaptive systems, and privacy-preserving frameworks using federated learning. The study advocates for strengthened security protocols, interdisciplinary curricula, and mixed-methods evaluations to advance ethical, child-centric innovations. By bridging technological and pedagogical perspectives, this work informs policy and practice for leveraging digital tools to optimize early learning outcomes while mitigating risks.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00010-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00008-0
Sihang Yu, Yichen Hou, Hui Li
{"title":"Suitability of Chinese GenAI platforms for early childhood education: A multifaceted evaluation","authors":"Sihang Yu, Yichen Hou, Hui Li","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00008-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00008-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers transformative potential for early childhood education (ECE), yet concerns remain regarding its suitability and ethical implications for young children. This study evaluated 10 freely available Chinese GenAI platforms for suitability in ECE, considering technical performance, pedagogical adaptability, and ethical/safety considerations. Using mixed methods (quantitative scoring and qualitative content analysis), platforms were assessed on multimodal support, response speed, teaching content generation, activity organization, personalization, ethical compliance, content appropriateness, and algorithmic fairness. Results showed significant variability in performance, with some platforms excelling in technical aspects while others demonstrated stronger pedagogical adaptability. Doubao and iFlytek Spark demonstrated strong technical performance, while DeepSeek excelled in pedagogical adaptability. However, all platforms presented areas for improvement, particularly in multimodal support and the transparency of ethical guidelines. This research offers a novel framework for evaluating GenAI in ECE, which allows for a more nuanced and context-specific assessment compared to existing frameworks. This framework highlights the need for specialized ECE datasets, algorithmic transparency, and robust ethical guidelines to protect young learners. Findings provide practical guidance for educators, developers, and policymakers navigating GenAI's potential in early childhood development.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00008-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147911768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00004-4
Hui Li, John Chi‐Kin Lee
{"title":"AI, Brain, and Child: navigating the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and child development","authors":"Hui Li, John Chi‐Kin Lee","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00004-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00004-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In an era marked by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive neuroscience, the intersection of these fields holds transformative potential for child development and educational practices. This launch editorial introduces AI, Brain and Child (ABC), an open-access journal dedicated to exploring the dynamic interplay between AI, neuroscience, and child education. By fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue among educators, researchers, clinicians, and policymakers, ABC aims to examine the multifaceted roles of AI and neuroscience in shaping cognitive, social, and emotional growth among children. The journal seeks to democratize access to high-quality research, addressing both the beneficial applications and ethical challenges posed by AI and neuroscience technologies. Through this platform, ABC aspires to promote evidence-based practices, enhance educational outcomes, and tackle pressing developmental and educational issues. By welcoming diverse contributions—from empirical research to policy analysis—ABC endeavors to bridge the gaps between theory and practice, equipping stakeholders with the insights needed to navigate the complexities of educating children within a technologically enriched landscape. This new scholarly endeavor marks a new era of global community to partake in the crucial conversation surrounding the opportunities and responsibilities inherent in integrating AI and neuroscience into education.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00004-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147920366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s44436-025-00003-5
Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson, Wenwei Luo
{"title":"Innovating responsibly: ethical considerations for AI in early childhood education","authors":"Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson, Wenwei Luo","doi":"10.1007/s44436-025-00003-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44436-025-00003-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into early childhood education (ECE) presents transformative possibilities but raises urgent ethical challenges that demand immediate attention. This scoping review examines 42 studies to explore key ethical concerns in four interconnected areas: data privacy, impacts on child development, algorithmic bias, and regulatory frameworks. Findings reveal significant gaps in safeguarding children’s sensitive data, with inadequate protections against breaches, profiling, and misuse. Emotional AI tools, such as social robots and emotion-recognition technologies, offer novel learning opportunities but risk undermining relational learning and fostering overreliance, manipulation, or loss of autonomy. The lack of developmentally appropriate design in AI systems further exacerbates these risks, failing to align technological solutions with the unique needs of young learners. Algorithmic bias, driven by non-representative datasets, perpetuates systemic inequities, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities and eroding fairness. Regulatory frameworks are fragmented and inconsistent, often lacking provisions tailored to the vulnerabilities of children or mechanisms for global enforcement. To address these challenges, this study highlights the urgency of establishing global frameworks that prioritize transparency, data minimization, and cultural inclusivity. Engaging educators, parents, and children in participatory governance is essential to align AI design with developmental needs and uphold children’s rights. These findings underscore the need for immediate and sustained efforts to ensure that AI systems in ECE foster equitable and ethical learning environments, safeguarding the well-being of young learners while advancing innovation responsibly.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44436-025-00003-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147903733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv16qjz5t.9
N. Morota
{"title":"[Historiae].","authors":"N. Morota","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv16qjz5t.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16qjz5t.9","url":null,"abstract":"The escape is the practice that changes a person into a fugitive. Such escape might have been induced by economic, political and/or social reasons. Generally, two terms were used to identify people who ran away from their habitat: hapirum and munnabtum. In this paper, I will follow the viewpoints of Bottéro and Rowton to denote that the former were social rootless people while the latteraccording to Buccellatiwere politically displaced individuals. These stances do not agree with Durand’s perspective about such social actors located within the political scenario at Mari. This author defines and re-defines them throughout several papers to finally understand the hapirum as political adversaries and the munnabtum as emigrants due to specific situations. Based on the analysis of the approaches of all the mentioned authors, we get to understand that the term hapirum would explain the situation of emigrant/immigrant people. The alleged political opposition of these social actors was not the source of their displacement but one of the consequences resulted from it. Thereafter, the political aspect that would sheathe the hapirum would be a result of their need and not the motive. Conversely, the term munnabtum would actually imply a political bias that could be traced out by finding them isolated or hunted individually by the political power. Thus, the aim of this paper is to set out the complexity that the translation of certain terms involves and, considering the cases 1 Una primera versión de este trabajo fue presentada en el Workshop “Convegno internazionale. Costruzione / distruzione / rafforzamento dell’identità. Tolleranza, integrazione e guerra nelle società del Vicino Oriente antico e altre culture”, \"Sapienza\" Universidà di Roma, 12 de abril de 2013.","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"47 4 1","pages":"256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43118188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No To HattatsuPub Date : 2019-02-14DOI: 10.1017/9781108557917.013
T. Kubota, H. Fukuoka
{"title":"[Introductory remarks].","authors":"T. Kubota, H. Fukuoka","doi":"10.1017/9781108557917.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108557917.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"47 3 1","pages":"212-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45424936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Clinical characteristics of early juvenile GM2 gangliosidosis: a case report].","authors":"Hiroya Ono, Chitose Sugiura, Aya Narita, Koyo Ohno, Yoshiaki Saito, Yoshihiro Maegaki, Nagako Murakami, Eiji Nanba","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We describe the case of a 15-year-old male with early juvenile type GM2 gangliosidosis. He first manifested with progressive clumsiness in his extremities at the age of 1.5 years, followed by motor regression. Intellectual disability became evident as late as age 6 years. This discrepancy along with rapid motor deterioration after varicella infection, lack of startle response or macrocephaly, and paucity of myoclonus were thought to be characteristic of juvenile GM2 gangliosidosis. In contrast to the cerebellar atrophy as the initial finding in usual juvenile GM2 gangliosidosis, magnetic resonance imaging revealed initially cerebral, and subsequently cerebellar, progressive atrophy. Autistic behavioral problems, including phonophobia, during intellectual regression in this patient was also unusual in juvenile GM2 gangliosidosis. Thus, recognition of these features would prompt proper diagnosis and insights into the pathomechanisms of GM2 gangliosidosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":39367,"journal":{"name":"No To Hattatsu","volume":"49 3","pages":"203-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36402603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}