Apps, Technology and Younger Learners : International Evidence for Teaching (Hardcover)

Part 1: Understanding the learning potential of children’s apps 1. Apps and learning: A sociocultural perspective Roger Saljo 2. Learning from apps in the home: Parents and play Jenny Radesky & Barry Zuckerman 3. First principles of teaching reading with e-Books in the primary grades Kathleeen Roskos Part 2: Key app challenges 4. Reading between the lines: Market scan and analysis of language and literacy-focused children’s apps Sarah E. Vaala 5 Teaching and learning with tablets: A case study of 21st century skills and new learning Nicola Yelland 6. App Maps: Evaluating children's iPad software for 21st century literacy learning Karen E. Wohlwendand Jennifer Rowsell 7. Touch design and narrative interpretation: A social semiotic approach to picture book apps Sumin Zhaoand Len Unsworth 8. Put their learning in their hands: Apps supporting self-regulated learning Julie Mueller, Karin Archer, Eileen Wood and Domenica De Pasquale Part 3: Empirical evidence 9. The use of tablet technology to support development of early mathematical skills: A cross-cultural comparison Nicola J Pitchfordand Laura Outhwaite 10. "Makes learning easier ? they’re active": Using apps in early years mathematics Nigel Calder 11. Adults and children make meaning together with E-books Kathrin Rees, Susan Rvachew andAparna Nadig 12. Literacy teaching with tablets in bilingual primary classrooms: The Malta Tablet study Charles l. Mifsudand Louisa Grech 13. iPad-supported learning and development for a child with mild cerebral palsy Elaine Khoo 14. Enhancing science learning with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in a primary school in Hong Kong Yanjie Song and Wai Ying Ku 15. Bringing Pudsey to Life: Young children’s use of augmented reality apps Jackie Marsh and Dylan Yamada-Rice 16. Young Children in an Education Context: Apps, cultural agency and expanding communicative repertoires Karen Daniels Part 4: Future Avenues 17. Digital play: Conceptualising the relation between real, augmented and virtual realities Marilyn Fleer 18. iPads, apps and student thinking skill development Garry Falloon 19. Trans- and intra- apps: innovating the app market and use Natalia Kucirkova 20. A model of mobile knowledge building with apps for pre-service teacher education Kevin Burden