The document discusses the role of technology, specifically apps, in children's learning and engagement at libraries. It emphasizes the importance of emotional connections in learning, recommends joint media engagement, and suggests various app resources for promoting literacy and other skills. Key practices for library app usage include setting limits for screen time, fostering physical closeness during interactions, and incorporating apps into activities to enhance children's learning experiences.

1. Apps and Kids
@ Your Library
WHY?
WHEN?
HOW?
Hayley McEwing:
Blog: www.librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com

2. Library’s Mission
Educate or Entertain?
Work or Play?

3. Emotions & Learning
Attention
“Remember: Children
do not pay attention
when they are bored or
frustrated, and they do
not learn when they
are not paying
attention (11).”

4. Emotions & Learning
Finding Meaning
“ . . . attuning to our
feelings, according to
neurological research,
helps us find the
meaning in data …,
Emotions science now
tells us, are part of
rationality, not
opposed to it (42).”

5. Emotions & Learning
(Print) Motivation and Play
• ECRR = Print Motivation as a building block
for reading
• ECRR 2 = Play as a practice for all learning

6. Why Apps?
“…every new
technology is
an opportunity
for learning.”
http://pbskids.org/lab

7. References
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): http://www.aap.org
• Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards;
Guidelines for Early Care and Education Settings. (2011) :
http://nrckids.org/CFOC3/PDFVersion/list.html (Standard 2.2.0.3: Limiting Screen
Time – Media, Computer Time)
• Dr. Patricia Kuhl
• http://librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com/2010/07/minds-brains-and-early-learning-how.h
• http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.html
• Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media:
http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/
• Lisa Guernsey, author of Screen Time: http://www.lisaguernsey.com/
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC):
http://www.naeyc.org/content/technology-and-young-children/infants-and-toddlers
• NAEYC + Fred Rogers Center Joint Statement
• http://www.naeyc.org/content/technology-and-young-children
• http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/KeyMessages_Technology.pdf
• “Young Children and Media” ALSC webinar (2013) with Chip Donahue, Director of
Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center
http://teccenter.erikson.edu/files/NAEYC_Position_Statement_slides_11_12.pdf

8. Key Practices for
Children and Media
• Limits, especially for ages 0 – 3
– Less than two hours a day and need for activity
(AAP).
– Screen Free Storytime
http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2013/06/the-screen-free
– “And Sometimes the Device is the Babysitter”
http://littleelit.com/2013/10/25/and-sometimes-the-d

9. Key Practices for
Children and Media
• Joint media engagement
– relationship/social-based education
• physical closeness
• conversation
• Intentional use  3 C’s by Guernsey
– content (quality apps)
– context (how)
– consider the individual child

10. App Resources
• http://littleelit.com/ and
http://www.pinterest.com/littleelit/
• http://www.hbook.com/category/choosingbooks/app-review-of-the-week/#_
• https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ipad/
• http://www.slj.com/category/booksmedia/reviews/apps/
• Apps Gone Free by AppAdvice.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apps-gone-freebest-daily/id470693788?mt=8

11. Why Use Apps/iPads in the Library
• To provide access to new technology and the
information/learning that comes with it
• To demonstrate best practices on using the
technology, particularly joint engagement
• To extend and support all learning, digital
literacy included
– 4s and 5s: Green Eggs and Ham/Fox in Socks app
• To motivate/make positive emotional
connections… to learning, to others, to oneself
– Outreach Tweens: Singing Fingers app

12. When to Use Apps/iPads in the Library
• Can’t have the real thing (e.g. cost, practicality, safety)
– Gotta Move: Red Light, Green Light app as virtual toy
– Family: Live Butterfly Garden by Questsphere
• Working with large groups  projector
– Family: Glow Draw app for draw-and-tell story
• Hands are needed to interact vs hold book
– Gotta Move: Rah, Rah Radishes pics & rhythm sticks
• Extra visuals (e.g. lyrics or photographs)
– Gotta Move: Felt Board app + real stickers
• Involve kids with limited mobility
– Gotta Move: Where Do Balloons Go?

13. How to Use Apps/iPads in the Library
• Incorporated with other activities
– Gotta Move: Wee Willie Winkie rhyme with toy
clock and sunset backdrop
– 4s and 5s: My First Wood Puzzles: Dinosaurs as
one of the toy choices during playtime after
program  Sound Touch Lite app for sibling
• With a partner
– Family: Jelly Doodle app (science/print awareness)
– iPad Play program

14. iPad Play
Access, Joint (Parent) Engagement,
Tweens, Motivation to Learn
Hey, kids! Want to use an iPad? Hey, adults! Want to
motivate your child to learn? Call ________ and ask
for a librarian at the location you would like to visit.
We'll ask for the subject area you'd like to explore with
your child and schedule you for a twenty minute
session with the Library's iPad.
Registration and adult ID (valid license, state ID or
library card) is required. For kids from age four to
those in sixth grade. Child must be accompanied by
an adult.
Appointments are available from ___________

15. • Alphabet
Literacy
– Alphabet Tracing by Oncilla Technologies Inc
– Stumpy's Alphabet Dinner by Roo Roo
• Phonics/Sound
– ABC Alphabet Phonics - Preschool Kids Game Free
Lite by GrasshopperApps.com
– Phonics Fun 1 by Innovative Net Learning Limited
– Phonics Genius by Innovative Mobile Apps
– Rhyming Words by GrasshopperApps.com
Sound Touch Lite by SoundTouch
– Touch the Sound by Innovative Mobile Apps

16. Literacy
• Sight Words/Reading
− Eggy 100 by Blake eLearning – sight word game
– Futaba by INKids – can program with own word lists
– Sight Words 2 : 140+ learn to read flashcards and games
app for kids. Play word bingo! by eFlashApps, LLC
• Vocabulary
– Touch and Learn Emotions by Innovative Mobile Apps
− Endless Alphabet by Callaway Digital Arts

17. Literacy
• Tell Stories/Narrative Skills
Felt Board by Software Smoothie ($)
Glow Draw by Indigo Penguin Limited – tell/draw
– Guess ’em by GameWeaver
Red Light, Green Light by the Future of Pinball, LLC
Singing Fingers by Beginner’s Mind (iPhone apps)
− Songify by Khush Inc.
− Story Wheel by EverAge – create a story by
yourself or with others and share with others
− Toca Kitchen Monsters by Toca Boca AB
− Toontastic by Launchpad Toys

18. Science
− Chirp! Bird Song USA + by iSpiny ($)
Jelly Doodle by Shoe the Goose ($)
– Human Body by Tinybop ($)
– Galaxies by Kids Discover
Live Butterfly Garden by Questsphere
– Osmos by Hemisphere Games ($)
– Science Reading Comprehension by Abitalk
Incorporated
– Soundrop by Develoe LLC – experiment with sound
– Star Walk by Vito Technology Inc – virtual telescope ($)

19. Math & Puzzles
• Numbers and Money
– Amazing Coin by Joy Preschool Game -- no toy money to lose
or choke on
– Counting Money by King’s Apps
– Counting and Skip Counting by Ikidspad LLC
– Kids Connect the Dots lite by Intellijoy – number sequence
– Motion Math Hungry Fish by Motion Math ($)
– Tiny Chicken Learns Currency by TaptoLearn Software
– Todo K-2 Math Practice by Locomotive Labs
• Puzzles
– Flow Free by Big Duck Games LLC
– Rail Maze by Spooky House Studios UG
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20. eBook Apps
Can be an interactive, new experience with literature; its own genre!
• Fiction
− Cinderella by Nosy Crow ($)
– Even Monsters Get Sick by Busy Bee Studios ($)
– Goodnight Safari by Polk Street Press LLC
– Numberlys by Moonbot Studios ($)
– Millie Was Here by Megapops LLC
– Spot the Dot by Ruckus Media Group ($)
 Where Do Balloons Go by Auryn Inc ($)

21. eBook Apps
Can be an interactive, new experience with literature; its own genre!
• Nonfiction
– A Jazzy Day by The Melody Book ($)
– Bobo Explores Light by Game Collage, LLC ($)
– I Love Mountains by Forest Giant Inc
– Noisy Bug Sing Along by Dawn Publications ($)
– Weird but True by National Geographic Society

22. eBook Apps
• To motivate early readers, stressing awareness of print with
interactivity and visual print prompts
– Bob Books by Learning Touch – paper copies wear easily
– http://www.oceanhousemedia.com/ apps – touch for
print
• When the physical book is out of print or hard to access
– Dear Zoo by Pan Macmillan
– Flash the Dash by Auryn Inc
– Meanwhile by Zarfhome Software Consulting ($)
– Professor Garfield Cyber Bullying by Paws Incorporated

23. Apps and Kids
@ Your Library
WHY?
WHEN?
HOW?
Hayley McEwing:
Blog: www.librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com