Description:
This book discusses the impact on children's learning when iPads were introduced in three very different early years settings in Brisbane, Australia. It outlines how researchers worked with pre-school teachers and parents to explore how iPads can assist with letter and word recognition, the development of oral literacy and digital literacies and talk around play. Chapters consider the possibilities for using iPads for creativity and arts education through photography, storytelling, drawing, music creation and audio recording, and critically examine the literacies enabled by educational software available on iPads, and the relationship between digital play and literacy development.
Review Quotes:
"This is essential reading for researchers, research students and teacher educators focusing on the early years, as well as those with an interest in the role of ICTs, and particularly tablet computers, in education"- Martine Horvath, Early Years Educator, May 2015
"Underlying the writing is reference to theory and pedagogical approaches. The authors present an honest account of the challenges of the research, discussing how adaptations to teaching were made/needed but also reporting the opportunities it created, which would not have been as accessible or possible without the use of iPads. The book concludes with five 'digital basics' to help people design learning for children. " - Dr Anna Mary Cooper, University of Salford, The Psychologist