Digital practices are forging ahead in leaps and bounds.
Examining digital practices in early childhood education, this book seeks to inform the discussion on how digital technologies are best integrated into play-based pedagogy, and demonstrates effective practices that enhance children's learning and development. With a range of international contributors, perspectives, and case studies, the fusion of play and portable technology is explored through contemporary research.
Introduction - Colette Gray & Ioanna Palaiologou
Part I: Play and Learning in a Digital Age
Chapter 1: Children's playful encounters with iPads - Aderonke Folorunsho & Ioanna Palaiologou
Chapter 2: Open-world-games: An exploration of creative play - Lorna Arnott, John Levine & Gillian Shanks
Chapter 3: From play to media: a physical approach to digital media - Grete Skjeggestad Meyer & Ingvard Bråten
Chapter 4: Playing with technology outdoors - Michelle Rogers
Part II: Multimodel Spaces, Opportunities and Agency
Chapter 5: It is not only about the tools! Professional digital competence - Maria Dardanou & Trine Kofoed
Chapter 6: Parents' perspectives on the use of touchscreen technology by 0-3 year olds - Jane O'Connor, Olga Fotakopoulou, Maria Hatzigianni & Marie Fridberg
Chapter 7: Integrating technology to support children's agency and transitions to school - Kelly Johnston, Kate Highfield & Fay Hadley
Chapter 8: The digital divide: access, skills, use and ideological barriers - Aderonke Folorunsho & Ioanna Palaiologou
Chapter 9: Digital inequality, access and provision: The experience of Irish Medium Schools in Northern Ireland - Colette Gray, Jill Dunn, Pamela Moffett & Denise Mitchell
Chapter 10: Digital citizens: How preschool teachers and children can communicate in a global world - Klaus Thestrup
Part III: Digitally enabled learning in the 21st Century
Chapter 11: An education-centred approach to digital media education - Saara Salomaa & Pekka Mertala
Chapter 12: Teachers' digital practices in the classroom - Debra Harwood, Dane Marco Di Cesare & Karen Julien
Chapter 13: Multimodel media production: Children's meaning making when producing film in a play-based pedagogy - Mari-Ann Letnes
Chapter 14: Mobile learning and the outdoors - Gary Beauchamp, Nick Young & Ruby Price
Chapter 15: Digital manipulatives and mathematics - Zoi Nikiforidou
