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E-Books Need Mentors
Lisa GuernseyDirector, Early Education Initiative
New America FoundationNewAmerica.org
The Hazard
The Imperative
Smartphone ownership by age
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, June 2013
Social interaction prompted by e-media?
Flickr.com/Elaine and Scott van der Chijs courtesy Creative Commons license
The Three Cs
· Content
· Context
· Child
Photo above: Darcy1b on Flickr; Screen shot to right: Nook children’s books by Barnes & Noble
Growing Up BooksPlus
Pioneering Literacy
in the Digital Wild
West
Campaign for Grade-Level
Reading, 2012
Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild WestEmpowering Parents and EducatorsJoan Ganz Cooney Center & New America Foundation
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
E-books in the app store offer features – but which ones help children learn to read?
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Photo by JGCC Research Team
Time is ripe for e-book guidance
Parents are even reading e-books with their very young children. Survey results of 1200 middle
class parents with child age 2 to 6 (JGCC, 2012).
But they need training on the use of questioning techniques with the
new technology (Vanderbilt study using videos of narrated Scholastic books, 2010).
Photo by JGCC Research Team
Create place & time to experiment
Create a place in every community where parents and educators can experiment together with online and offline media as a springboard for children’s literacy.
For the full report, see:http://gradelevelreading.net/resources/technology-for-successful-parenting
Seek opportunities for joint engagement
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Photo by Brigid Barron
Photo by Bonnie Blagojevic, Mano en Mano, Maine
Media Mentors
Smart conversation for the BooksPlus teacher
•#ECETECHhttps://groups.diigo.com/group/ecetech•Fred Rogers Center’s bloghttp://www.fredrogerscenter.org/blog/•Many more from today’s conference
Lisa GuernseyDirector, Early Education InitiativeNew America FoundationEarlyed.newamerica.net
Author, Screen Time: How Electronic Media – From Baby Videos to Educational Software – Affects Your Young Child (Basic Books, 2012) www.screentimebook.com
Thank you
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