One Classroom, One iPad, Many Stories. (8th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fantozzi, Victoria B.; Johnson, Christi; Scherfen, Anneliese
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 71:Number 6(2018)
• Page Start: 681
• Page End: 689
• Publication Date: 2017-11-08
• Subjects: Digital/media literacies -- Instructional strategies -- methods and materials -- Oral language -- Popular culture < Digital/media literacies -- Specific media (hypertext, Internet, film, music, etc.) < Digital/media literacies -- Home‐school connections < Family literacy -- Expressive language < Oral language -- Action research -- teacher research < Research methodology -- Instructional technology < Strategies -- methods and materials -- 1‐Early childhood; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1651
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: Every day, we are surrounded by stories in print, on social media, in blogs, on the radio, and in stories from our friends and family. The ways people make meaning and communicate are increasingly multimodal and digital; yet, the preschool classroom, for all its multimodal learning, is sometimes devoid of technology. In this action research project, the authors integrated an iPad into a play‐based preschool classroom to support emergent literacy and playful storytelling. The students used multimodal and multi‐actor storytelling to collaborate, navigate their places in the classroom, and connect their school experiences to their home lives.