My slides from the PLA webinar: Early Literacy Programming in the Digital Age: Apps and eBooks in Storytime!

1. Early Literacy
Programming in the
Digital Age: Apps and
eBooks in Storytime
Cen Campbell, LittleeLit.com

2. more slides- maybe littleelit screen
shot?

3. Why are librarians asking about
apps in Storytime?
• Pedagogical Implications
• App recommendation requests from
community
• LACK of App recommendation requests from
the community
• Who else is giving the recommendations if
we aren't?

4. Today's Menu
Apps in Storytime
• Every Child Ready to Read 2
• Mobile Media

5. Why ECRR2.0?
• Research Based
• Parent Education Initiative
• Toolkit/Framework

6. Engagement
• Parent/Child Engagement
• Child/Device Engagement
• Librarian/Digital Media Engagement

7. The unlikely librarian: Carisa Kluver
"If you're not
going to
supervise this
playground,
then I am"
-Carisa Kluver,
digital-
storytime.com

8. Image from Hanna Rosin's Atlantic Article, The Touch Screen Generation

9. Southington Library Museum eTots program from SLJ

10. Poll
Are any of you using Are any of you using
ECRR2 format (or apps or other
inspiration) in your technology in your
storytimes? storytimes?
(Powerpoint counts!
Overhead
projectors count!)

11. Storyshelf
From Read Sing Play: Adventures in Early Literacy

12. What we're NOT doing with digital
media
• Replacing paper books
• Replacing other storytelling tools with digital
ones

13. Yes, but what does it look like?
• Hope to have video demonstrations
available soon
• I only have a sketchy video from hubby's
phone, but it does give you an idea of what
an app in storytime can look like

14. image of llama llama at CDM

18. Options
• Mirrored: projector or screen
o Big groups
o Better visibility
o Hands free for actions
o You need iPad, AppleTV, cables (HDMI or VGA w/
adaptor) and WiFi for both iPad and AppleTV
• Hand-held
o Small groups
o Kids can touch screen
o Walk around the room; Pop-up book
o Flip the screen around

19. Grow a Reader App
• Lullabies, Bounces, Tickles, Finger
Rhymes, Face & Body Rhymes
• Sing, Talk, Play, Read, Write
• Book recommendations (Links directly to
catalog)

20. Five Early Learning Practices
• Singing
• Talking
• Reading
• Writing
• Playing

21. Singing
• Toca Band
• Twinkle Twinkle
• Wee Sing ABC

22. Fais Do Do
Fais do do, Lisa Loeb & Elizabeth Mitchell

30. Singable Books

31. Talking
• Dialogic reading
• Asking open ended questions
• Ignoring the words and reading the pictures

32. Oh Mo....
And I think that’s what most enhanced digital
books are at this point. With all their bells and
whistles and word jumbles and assorted
narrative killers, after we turn them on, they
don’t need us. Turn it on and leave the room,
and the book will read itself. -Mo Willems,
from
Why Books? — The Zena Sutherland Lecture

33. Apps to Talk about
• Byron Barton
• Morris Lessmore
• Press Here

34. Reading
• Dr Seuss
• Sandra Boynton
• Richard Scarry's Busytown
• Beatrix Potter

35. image of how rocket learned to read

36. Moo Baa La La La

38. Writing
• Children can write sooner with a tablet; they
are not limited by their dexterity with a
crayon, pencil, mouse or keyboard
• Bob Books
• Don't Let the Pigeon Run this App

41. writing app screen shot

42. Playing
• Animal sounds
• Interactive elements
• Print Motivation

43. Playing: Animal games and Sounds
• Animal SnApp: Farm
• Animal Sounds: Fun Toddler Game

44. Playing: Interactive Elements
• Monster at the End of this Book
• Very Cranky Bear
• Blue Hat Green Hat

45. Playing: Print Motivation
• The Wrong Book
• The Going to Bed Book

46. Non-Fiction
• Smithsonian
• National Geographic
• iBooks

47. Numeracy
Bedtime Math
• Toca Store
• Goodnight Moon 123

48. Felt Boards and Storytelling
• Felt Board
• Sock Puppets
• Keynote
• Not intended to REPLACE physical felt
boards, puppets or any other traditional
storytelling tool; they are just another tool in
your toolkit!

50. Review Sources for Apps
• Appitic
• Common Sense Media
• Cybils
• Digital Storytime
• Horn Book: Out of the Box
• Kindertown
• Kirkus: iPad Reviews
• SLJ: Touch & Go
• Smart apps for kids

51. Questions?
Thank you!
@LittleeLit
LittleeLit.com

52. Further Reading/Resources
Mentioned
• Idaho Commission on Libraries Report
• Screen Time (Lisa Guernsey)
• Giving our Children a Fighting Chance (Susan B Neuman)
• The New Co-Viewing (Joan Ganz Cooney Center)
• Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West (Joan Ganz Cooney
Center)
• Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood
Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 (NAEYC/Fred
Rogers)
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (Screen Free Week)
• Mind in the Making (Ellen Galinksy)
• Parenting the Touchscreen Generation: Do We Need Credible
Fresh Thinking? (Eitan Schwartz)

53. Screen Time
From New York Times: Parents Urged Again to Limit TV for Youngest

54. Do we even know what "screen
time" is anymore?
• Content
• Context
• Child

55. Not all screens are created equal
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/not-all-
screens-are-created-equal

56. Modern science confirms what the early childhood community
has known for years—that infants, toddlers, and young children
learn through exploring with their whole bodies, including all of
their senses. For optimal development, in addition to food and
safety, they need love. They need to be held, and they need
plenty of face-to-face positive interactions with caring adults.
Developing children thrive when they are talked to, read to, and
played with.
In the interests of children’s wellbeing, we believe the early
childhood community needs to study the issues surrounding
screen technologies, make informed decisions about their use
in classrooms and child care settings, and work with parents to
manage screen time and content in ways that best serve young
children.
Facing the Screen Time Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education

57. Mainstream Media
• The Touch Screen Generation (Hanna
Rosin)
• Zora Ball
• The Child, the Tablet and the Developing
Mind

58. Engagement
Joint Media Engagement
Parent Engagement

59. Why use apps/eBooks in
Storytime?
Joint Media Appvisory
Engagement • Reader's Advisory
• Children and for Apps
caregivers • Review Sources
interacting with
each other
• How to recognize a
good app
• Conversation
around book

60. Spanning the Tech Spectrum
Haves Have Nots
• Already have their • Do not have their
own devices own devices
• Want Appvisory • May not know how
• Want guidance to support their
• Often can "handle" child's literacy
development
the 6 Early Literacy
Skills and want to • 5 Early Learning
know more Practices tips in
small doses

61. Information Capital Begins with
Learning to Read
"We're not here for the
computers, we're here
for the
books!" (Neuman and
Celano, pg 67)
This distinction is
already disappearing.

62. Early Reading Skills, particularly the first part of the
reading equation- phonological awareness (rhyming,
alliteration, segmenting, and blending) and letter name
knowledge- are especially well-suited to the mastery
learning capabilities of the computer. With adult
supervision, computer programs, specially
orchestrated to drill and practice these skills, can make
the work like play, in a manner that builds both speed
and fluency. Consequently, what would ordinarily be a
centrepiece in kindergarten is now in the hands of a
miraculous machine and an authoritative parent who
is guiding his or her child at age 3. (Neuman and
Celano 74)
(remember; they're not talking about tablet technology;
these kids were using a mouse, keyboard etc)

63. AAP is re-thinking its policies
“We now have to reconcile that policy with the fact
that little kids under two are able to use these
devices and learn from them,” says Gwenn
O'Keeffe, M.D., a pediatrician, fellow of the AAP,
and author of CyberSafe: Protecting and
Empowering Kids in the Digital World of Texting,
Gaming, and Social Media. “What we have to do is
continue to reassess. We used to talk about online
and offline worlds; it's all kind of one space now.
So the more important concern surrounding the
screen-time debate isn't the time; it's the quality of
the content"

64. Further analysis of the AAP's
recommendations
Decades of research had shown that what
babies need most is attentive, loving care
from their parents, and no research had ever
pointed to any advantage in exposing
children under the age of 2 to a television set.
With little else to go on, the AAP decided to
take a "caveat emptor" position, sounding a
warning about electronic media that it hoped
would cause parents to think harder about
what, and when and why they were watching
with their young kids. (Screen Time,
Guernsey)

65. No, what the AAP really says is:
In 1999... the AAP issued a policy statement
addressing media use in children. The purpose of
that statement was to educate parents about the
effects that media—both the amount and the content
—may have on children. In one part of that
statement, the AAP recommended that “pediatricians
should urge parents to avoid television viewing for
children under the age of two years.” The wording of
the policy specifically discouraged media use in this
age group, although it is frequently misquoted by
media outlets as no media exposure in this age
group.