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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
List 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 21st 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
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.
