Table of Contents
Part 1: Understanding the learning potential of children’s apps 1. Apps and learning: A sociocultural perspective
Roger Säljö
2. Learning from apps in the home: Parents and play
Jenny Radesky & Barry Zuckerman
3. First principles of teaching reading with e-Books in the primary grades
Kathleeen Roskos
Part 2: Key app challenges
4. Reading between the lines: Market scan and analysis of language and literacy-focused children’s apps
Sarah E. Vaala
5 Teaching and learning with tablets: A case study of 21st century skills and new learning
Nicola Yelland
6. App Maps: Evaluating children's iPad software for 21st century literacy learning
Karen E. Wohlwend and Jennifer Rowsell
7. Touch design and narrative interpretation: A social semiotic approach to picture book apps
Sumin Zhao and Len Unsworth
8. Put their learning in their hands: Apps supporting self-regulated learning
Julie Mueller, Karin Archer, Eileen Wood and Domenica De Pasquale
Part 3: Empirical evidence
9. The use of tablet technology to support development of early mathematical skills: A cross-cultural comparison
Nicola J Pitchford and Laura Outhwaite
10. "Makes learning easier – they’re active": Using apps in early years mathematics
Nigel Calder
11. Adults and children make meaning together with E-books
Kathrin Rees, Susan Rvachew and Aparna Nadig
12. Literacy teaching with tablets in bilingual primary classrooms: The Malta Tablet study
Charles l. Mifsud and Louisa Grech
13. iPad-supported learning and development for a child with mild cerebral palsy
Elaine Khoo
14. Enhancing science learning with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in a primary school in Hong Kong
Yanjie Song and Wai Ying Ku
15. Bringing Pudsey to Life: Young children’s use of augmented reality apps
Jackie Marsh and Dylan Yamada-Rice
16. Young Children in an Education Context: Apps, cultural agency and expanding communicative repertoires
Karen Daniels
Part 4: Future Avenues
17. Digital play: Conceptualising the relation between real, augmented and virtual realities
Marilyn Fleer
18. iPads, apps and student thinking skill development
Garry Falloon
19. Trans- and intra- apps: innovating the app market and use
Natalia Kucirkova
20. A model of mobile knowledge building with apps for pre-service teacher education
Kevin Burden