Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children: An international perspective / Edition 1

by Susanne Garvis, Narelle Lemon

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the current international research on technology and young children and the importance of engagement for learning. This approach encourages the reader to rethink the possibilities and potential of digital technologies for learning in the early years With a wide range of expert contributors, this book will show examples of projects across the world that allow children to integrate technologies in their daily experiences as they engage in active meaning-making. The research projects also highlight the importance of providing diverse perspectives with technology and opportunities for children to produce new avenues for communication, problem solving and thinking. By presenting a comprehensive overview, current cultural practices in early childhood settings with young children can be transformed to reconceptualise early childhood education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138804401
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/24/2015
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susanne Garvis is a Professor of child and youth studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Narelle Lemon is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

1. Composing an email: Social interaction in a preschool classroom 2. Technology and Literacy in the Early Years: framing young children’s meaning-making with new technologies 3. Digital technology and young children’s narratives 4. Young children’s internet cognition 5. Young children photographing their learning to share their lived experiences of the learning environment 6. Shared Curiosity, Technology and Mathematics: Exploring Transitions Between Two and Three Dimensions 7. "I think it should be a little kind of exciting": A technology-mediated story-making activity in early childhood education 8. Multimodal meaning-making for young children: Partnerships through blogging 9. Availability and use of personal computers in German kindergartens – preconditions and influences 10. iPlay, iLearn, iGrow: Tablet technologies, curriculum, pedagogies and learning in the 21^st century 11. The tablet computer as a mediational means in a preschool art activity 12. Beginning the conversations about young children's engagement with technology in contemporary times