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Transcript of Southend Early Years Conference
Young Children’s Literacy
Development in a Digital Age
Jackie Marsh
University of Sheffield
Friday, 4 October 2013
Structure of Talk
• Digital literacy -definition
• The characteristics of children’s digital literacy practices in homes and communities
• Embedding these characteristics into early years settings/ classroom practice
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Digital Literacy
• Reading and writing that takes place through/ with/ in digital media (on screens - computers, tablets, iPads, smartphones, mobile phones, console games, handheld computers, electronic readers, projected texts on a range of environments)
• ‘Reading’ as a term includes decoding/ understanding/ analysing multimodal texts
• ‘Writing’/ ‘Authoring’/ ‘Design’/ ‘Production’ all variously used to describe creating texts using a range of modes
• ‘Text’ is an inclusive term - ‘any instance of communication in any mode or any combination of modes’ (Kress 2003: 48)
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Research questions
• What are the key characteristics of children’s digital literacy practices in homes and communities?
• How can the characteristics of home uses of digital literacy be embedded effectively in classroom curriculum and pedagogy?
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children’s games and rhymes in a new media age
Children’s use of virtual worlds
family digital literacy
practices
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular cultureNetworked
Digital literacy practices in the home
Playful
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Lubna, aged 3 Farooq, aged 2
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Grace, aged 4 Sohail, aged 2
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Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures
• Singing, dancing, talking to/ in front of TV/ films on own or with friends and family
• Using an electronic toy on own or with siblings and parents (e.g. Arabic script toy, matching words and images)
• Using mobile phone to talk to imaginary person
• Using mobile phone to talk to family members - language play
• Using laptop on own or with siblings and family members to use programs or watch Youtube
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• Using games console, generally with siblings
• Using digital camcorder and camera to record family activities
• Using CD/ MP3 player, dancing to music
• Using mobile phone to take photographs and videos
of family members
• Playing on phone apps
• Using mobile phone to engage in video calls
Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures
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Farooq
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• School-related activity (e.g. homework, forms and letters from school, playing school)
• Daily living routines (e.g. maintaining the social organisation of the family, shopping, cooking, paying bills)
• Work (e.g. related to family employment)• Participating in ‘information networks’ (e.g. to find out what was
happening in areas of interest e.g. reading sports pages of newspapers)
• Religion (e.g. reading holy books)• Literacy for the sake of teaching/ learning literacy (e.g.phonics/
phonological awareness activities using books) • Interpersonal communication (e.g. letters, birthday cards)• Entertainment (e.g. reading books, comics) • Storybook time (adult-child reading of picture books)
(Teale, 1986)
Purposes for literacy in the home (Teale, 1986)
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• Daily living routines (e.g. emails; ebay; online
supermarket sites)• Work (e.g. word processing; emails)• Participating in ‘information networks’ (e.g. chat forums;
Facebook)• Religion (e.g. online religious communities)• Literacy for the sake of teaching/ learning literacy (e.g.
tablet apps based on phonics). • Interpersonal communication (e.g. emails; text
messages)• Entertainment (e.g. console games; electronic books;
websites) • Storybook time (electronic books)
Purposes for digital literacy in the home
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• Understanding of the affordances of different modes
• Ability to understand the salience of visual images and icons
• Ability to manipulate images to achieve specific purposes
• Ability to navigate within and across screens
• Use gesture/ sound appropriately for purpose and audience
multimodal skills developed
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CBeebies: Everything’s rosie
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TRANSMEDIA INTERTEXTUALITY (KINDER, 1991)
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1928
1930s...
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Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
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Mobile Devices
52% of 0-8 year-olds in US had access to mobile device such
as smartphone/ ipod or ipad; 38% of 0-8 year olds
used them
(Common Sense Media, 2011)
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App Gap? (Common Sense Media, 2011)
47% v 14%
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Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular culture
Networked
Digital literacy practices
in the home
Playful
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Online/ offline blurred
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Virtual worlds for children
• Persistent space that offers a range of environments that are navigable through maps
• Customisable avatar
• Home for avatar
• Free chat and safe-chat servers
• Games which earn in-world currency, generally played individually
• In-world goods that can be purchased
• Moderators
• Information for parents on website
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Reading postcards
Writing and reading public chat
Reading game instructions
Writing submissions to the in-world
newspaper
Reading in-world texts e.g. newspapers/
books/ catalogues
Reading in-world text e.g. signs,
challenges posed byproducers
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Class 2 Offline
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Online
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Apptivity - Hot Wheels
Augmented reality
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Disney Dream Play
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Online/ offline practices in homes
• Purposes for reading similar across online and offline spaces
• Children engage in literacy practices online that relate to offline practices e.g. social networking with friends
• Offline public spaces increasingly related to online e.g. use of QR codes in toy shops, cinemas
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular cultureNetworked
Digital literacy practices in the home
Playful
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Intergenerational
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Intergenerational Digital Literacy Practices in Homes
• Communicating via email, texting, Facebook etc.
• Accessing the internet together on PCs, smartphones and tablets
• Sharing e-books
• Playing online/ tablet games together, or using Console games (e.g. Wii)
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular cultureNetworked
Digital literacy practices in the home
Playful
Digital literacyin engaged classrooms
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Aims of project: To involve pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators and pupils in:
• Exploring and sharing the potential of digital technologies
• Understanding more about what it means to be digitally literate
• Sharing and developing good practice in teaching through development of open educational resources (OERs)
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Research question
• How can the characteristics of home uses of digital literacy be embedded effectively in classroom curriculum and pedagogy?
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1 nursery, 4 primary schools,4 secondary schools, 1 special school
Pre-service teachers
University researchers
Industry partners
Local authority
Research Tools
Photographs
Videos
Interviews
Critical reflections
Blogs
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular cultureNetworked
Digital literacy in
engaged classrooms
Playful
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CASE STUDY 1: SHARROW NURSERY
• Teachers:Zubida Khatoon and Alice Worthington• Nursery children• Using mobile apps for digital story-telling, including
iPods and digital video
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Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
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Trans-mode/media
Farm Blog
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MONTENEY PRIMARY SCHOOL
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My monster likes to eat chicken nuggetsOn Sundays my monster is very dirty, but some days he is very cleanNever tell my monster he is dirty, or he will bite youSometimes my monster is very naughty, but sometimes he’s very well behavedToday is my monster’s birthday, so he’s having a zombie duck partyEveryone wants to come to my monster’s party because he’s very coolRob the zombie duck can’t decide what type of cake to have for his birthday party, but I think he will have chocolate cake this time
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TRANS-MODE/ MEDIA:KEY PRINCIPLES
•Reading and writing of alphabetic texts embedded in the digital practices - seamless interface
•Children engaged in a wide range of multimodal design activities that enable them to understand and reflect on the affordances of modes
• Skills involved learning coding - important for developing agency in relation to digital texts
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular culture
Digital literacy in
engaged classrooms
PlayfulNetworked
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MUNDELLA PRIMARY SCHOOL
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DAVID HOCKNEY - A BIGGER SPLASH
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The children showed their parents how to use the iPads
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Blog
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INTERGENERATIONAL PRACTICES:KEY PRINCIPLES
• Children engaging with older (and younger) generations outside of the classroom in ‘authentic’ digital literacy practices (through the exhibition, blog, Twitter stream)
• Children in role as experts (when teaching parents)
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular cultureNetworked
Digital literacyin engaged classrooms
Playful
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Online/ offline blurred: Halfway Primary School
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ONLINE/ OFFLINE PRACTICES:KEY PRINCIPLES
• Online texts related seamlessly to offline in ways that replicate out-of-school life
• Meaningful engagement with communities outside the classroom - local parks and museums (Jim - pupils were, “Learning to write for a real audience rather than for an invented one”)
• Learning as distributed and participatory (Lankshear and Knobel, 2011)
• Potential for links between older and younger children
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Embedded in the
everyday Passion-driven
Intergenerational
Trans-modes/ mediaGlocal
Online/ offline blurred
Mobile - crossing time/
space
Shaped bypopular cultureNetworked
Digital literacy in homes/communities
ANDengaged classrooms
Playful
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FINAL THOUGHTS
• Engaged pedagogies do not have to replicate exactly home experiences, but should draw on some of the main characteristics in the early years setting/ classroom in ways that are meaningful and authentic.
• We should recognise that children’s home experiences will be very different and not assume knowledge of all digital literacy texts/ practices.
• Children’s skills and knowledge should be built upon and extended, not left as they are in home contexts.
• We need to anticipate future developments and identify how they might be used effectively in early years teaching.
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Kirobo
Alone together? (Turkle, 2011)
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Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.
(Turkle, 1994 p167)
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http://www.digitalfutures.org/
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http://www.digitalfutures.org/
Thank you!
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