Early Learning in the Digital Age

Dr Colette Gray is a Chartered Developmental Psychologist at Stranmillis University College, a College of The Queen’s University of Belfast. She is a Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, was until very recently the Head of Research Development and a Visiting Professor (Child Development & Education) to the University of St Marks & St John’s Plymouth. She has studied and taught a range of undergraduate and post graduate degree modules to students for more than 20 years. Editor of the International Journal of Early Years Education, she continues to develop her research interests in the field of participatory research which children and marginalised groups, the impact of special needs on children’s learning, and the ethical implications of research involving vulnerable groups. Married for 40 years, she is the proud grandmother of three pre-schoolers Jacob (3 yrs 6mths), Isabelle (20 months) and Isaac (15 mths). Ioanna Palaiologou is an Associate Professor at the School of Education (Psychology in Education), University of Bristol. She is also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society with specialism in child development and learning theories. Her research interests focus on ethics, child development, the role of digital technologies and implications on pedagogy.

• Introduction - Colette Gray & Ioanna PalaiologouPart I: Play and Learning in a Digital AgeChapter 1: Children′s playful encounters with iPads - Aderonke Folorunsho & Ioanna PalaiologouChapter 2: Open-world-games: An exploration of creative play - Lorna Arnott, John Levine & Gillian ShanksChapter 3: From play to media: a physical approach to digital media - Grete Skjeggestad Meyer & Ingvard BråtenChapter 4: Playing with technology outdoors - Michelle RogersPart II: Multimodel Spaces, Opportunities and AgencyChapter 5: It is not only about the tools! Professional digital competence - Maria Dardanou & Trine KofoedChapter 6: Parents′ perspectives on the use of touchscreen technology by 0-3 year olds - Jane O′Connor, Olga Fotakopoulou, Maria Hatzigianni & Marie FridbergChapter 7: Integrating technology to support children′s agency and transitions to school - Kelly Johnston, Kate Highfield & Fay HadleyChapter 8: The digital divide: access, skills, use and ideological barriers - Aderonke Folorunsho & Ioanna PalaiologouChapter 9: Digital inequality, access and provision: The experience of Irish Medium Schools in Northern Ireland - Colette Gray, Jill Dunn, Pamela Moffett & Denise MitchellChapter 10: Digital citizens: How preschool teachers and children can communicate in a global world - Klaus ThestrupPart III: Digitally enabled learning in the 21st CenturyChapter 11: An education-centred approach to digital media education - Saara Salomaa & Pekka MertalaChapter 12: Teachers′ digital practices in the classroom - Debra Harwood, Dane Marco Di Cesare & Karen JulienChapter 13: Multimodel media production: Children′s meaning making when producing film in a play-based pedagogy - Mari-Ann LetnesChapter 14: Mobile learning and the outdoors - Gary Beauchamp, Nick Young & Ruby PriceChapter 15: Digital manipulatives and mathematics - Zoi Nikiforidou