Apps, Technology and Younger Learners

Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Lecturer in Childhood, Youth and Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Garry Falloon is Associate Professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

• Part 1: Understanding the learning potential of children’s apps1. Apps and learning: A sociocultural perspective Roger Säljö2. Learning from apps in the home: Parents and play Jenny Radesky & Barry Zuckerman3. First principles of teaching reading with e-Books in the primary grades Kathleeen RoskosPart 2: Key app challenges4. Reading between the lines: Market scan and analysis of language and literacy-focused children’s apps Sarah E. Vaala5 Teaching and learning with tablets: A case study of 21st century skills and new learning Nicola Yelland6. App Maps: Evaluating children's iPad software for 21st century literacy learning Karen E. Wohlwend and Jennifer Rowsell7. Touch design and narrative interpretation: A social semiotic approach to picture book apps Sumin Zhao and Len Unsworth8. Put their learning in their hands: Apps supporting self-regulated learningJulie Mueller, Karin Archer, Eileen Wood and Domenica De PasqualePart 3: Empirical evidence9. The use of tablet technology to support development of early mathematical skills: A cross-cultural comparison Nicola J Pitchford and Laura Outhwaite10. "Makes learning easier – they’re active": Using apps in early years mathematics Nigel Calder11. Adults and children make meaning together with E-books Kathrin Rees, Susan Rvachew and Aparna Nadig12. Literacy teaching with tablets in bilingual primary classrooms: The Malta Tablet study Charles l. Mifsud and Louisa Grech13. iPad-supported learning and development for a child with mild cerebral palsy Elaine Khoo14. Enhancing science learning with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in a primary school in Hong Kong Yanjie Song and Wai Ying Ku15. Bringing Pudsey to Life: Young children’s use of augmented reality apps Jackie Marsh and Dylan Yamada-Rice16. Young Children in an Education Context: Apps, cultural agency and expanding communicative repertoiresKaren DanielsPart 4: Future Avenues17. Digital play: Conceptualising the relation between real, augmented and virtual realities Marilyn Fleer18. iPads, apps and student thinking skill development Garry Falloon19. Trans- and intra- apps: innovating the app market and use Natalia Kucirkova20. A model of mobile knowledge building with apps for pre-service teacher education Kevin Burden