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The complexities and learning opportunities of personalisation in children’s digital books Dr Natalia Kucirkova The Open University Digital Literacy for Preschoolers 26 th of June
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The complexities and learning opportunities
of personalisation in children’s digital books
Dr Natalia Kucirkova The Open University
Digital Literacy for Preschoolers 26th of June
Personalised books
Image from www.clker.com, edited by NK
Once upon a time, there was a little girl called ………… One morning, after she had got out of her bed, she had some …………………. and went to the park to play with her friends ……………..
Child’s name: Natalia
Favourite breakfast food: porridge
Friends’ names: Jill and Kate
Effects of personalisation on children’s
language with paper-based books
Kucirkova, N., Messer, D., & Sheehy, K. (2014). Reading
personalized books with preschool children enhances
their word acquisition. First Language, 34(3), 227-243.
●-children learnt more new words embedded in PBs
than NBs
Kucirkova, N., Messer, D., & Sheehy, K. (2014). The
effects of personalisation on young children's
spontaneous speech during shared book
reading. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 45-55.
●-PBs initiate more spontaneous but also more self-
referential speech
Audio rep Visual
rep
Touch
screen
Interact-
ivity
Custom-
isation
Personal
-isation
Paper Books No Yes No No No No
PC books Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Simple E-books Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Interactive e-books Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
New affordances of digital books
From: Kucirkova, N. (2014) iPads and tablets in the classroom: personalizing
children’s stories, UKLA Minibook 41. ISBN: 978-1-897638-90-3
Personal or personalised ?
From: Kucirkova, N. (2014) iPads and tablets in the classroom: personalizing
children’s stories, UKLA Minibook 41. ISBN: 978-1-897638-90-3
●Focused and joint attention (shared activity)
●Rich linguistic environment
●‘Scaffodable’ activity (parents’ extra-textual talk)
●Enjoyment, parental warmth
●Profoundly social process, embedded in parent-child
relationships
● ….personalization….and reciprocity….
SBR: what makes it successful?
Agency and aesthetics--reciprocity
Empowerment
Confidence building
Authorship
Ownership
Agency
CREATE
SHARE
Our Story app What is that? ibook
Design-based research
Understanding the processes . . .
Designer dilemmas …
Image taken from Natalia’s personal blog, available at:
http://personalized-multimodal-stories.blogspot.co.uk/
Digital personalised stories used at home
Kucirkova, N., Messer, D., Sheehy, K. And Flewitt, R. (2013) Sharing personalized stories on iPads: a close look at one parent-child interaction, Literacy, 47, 3, 115-122.
Digital personalised stories at schools
Kucirkova, N., Messer, D., & Sheehy, K., Fernandez-Panadero, C. (2014) Children's engagement with educational iPad apps: insights from a Spanish classroom, Computers & Education, 71, 175-184.
Email [email protected]
Twitter @Nkucirkova
Publications: https://open.academia.edu/NataliaKucirkova
Blogs at The Conversation, Booktrust, Children’s Media
Foundation & Open University
Curated topic: Children's literacies in 21st century
Thank you…Any comments/ questions?
