E-Books Need Mentors

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Lisa Guernsey As books become adorned with interactive features, and as digital media and games of all kinds are now available at our fingertips, young children are going to need a little guidance. Building a good e-book experience means thinking not only about the technology and the content, but also supporting the adults and older children who are helping children seek, learn and explore in the digital age.

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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

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