This document discusses the use of new media technologies like tablets, apps, and interactive media for young children and early literacy programs. It outlines some concerns about overuse of screens for young kids but also acknowledges that technology is ubiquitous. It provides guidelines from organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and NAEYC for intentional and developmentally appropriate use of new media. The document demonstrates some apps and technologies that can be used to engage children and families in early literacy activities while co-viewing and interacting together.

1. Mother Goose on the Loose with New Media
Goose 2.0

2. Children's Programming & Early Literacy Consultant
www.mgol.net
betsydc@mgol.org
Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen

3. Founder, LittleeLit.com
@littleelit
Cen Campbell

4. LittleeLit.com
• Young Children,
New Media &
Libraries:
• Promising practices
for the
incorporation of
new media into
library collections,
services & programs
for children 0-5 and
their families

5. What is new media?
• Not just tablets & apps:
any emergent educational
technology
• Content creation via
camera, video,
microphone &
writing/drawing & book
creation tools, etc.
• Multimedia/Transmedia
• Wearable Tech

6. New Media is:
• Manipulated
• Networkable
• Dense
• Compressible
• Interactive

7. What’s happening right now?
•What are the current controversies?
•What have your heard or read about lately
•What’s brewing at LittleeLit ...

8. Concerns about new media & children
• Commercial messages
• Displacement of time
doing other things
• Eye/Neck/Body/Brain
strain
• Less creative and open-
ended play
•Less time running
around outside
•Sleep disruptions
•Age inappropriate
content
•Under 2s (AAP)

9. These concerns are all valid
• How can children’s librarians provide
guidance for the use of new formats given
that we have no long term research on the
effects of mobile media with young children?

10. Model for Young Children, New
Media & Libraries is a combination
of:
Pediatrics Pedagogy

11. Technology with young children!?
•NAEYC/Fred Rogers Joint Position
Statement
•American Academy of Pediatrics
•Brazelton Touchpoints Guiding Principles
•Goose 2.0 Use of Technology Statement

12. American Academy of Pediatrics

13. Parent Recommendations from
the AAP Guidelines
• Limit “entertainment” screen time to <1-2
hours a day
• Discourage screen media for children <2
• Keep screen media out of child’s bedroom
• Monitor media usage
• Coview
• Establish family media plan

14. NAEYC/Fred Rogers
• When used intentionally and appropriately, technology and
interactive media are effective tools to support learning and
development
• Intentional use requires early childhood teachers and administrators
to have information and resources regarding the nature of these tools
and the implications of their use with children

15. National Association for the
Education of Young Children &
Fred Rogers Center

16. Guidelines for Educators
• Select, use, integrate & evaluate media in
intentional & age-appropriate ways
• Balance of tech & non-tech
• Prohibit use of passive media
• Limit use for <2 year olds
• Consider recommendations from health orgs
• Equitable access to technology

17. Brazelton Touchpoints

18. Guiding Principles

19. Guiding Principles to Focus on
• Focus on the parent-child relationship
• Recognize what you bring to the interaction
• Be willing to discuss matters that go beyond
your traditional role

20. MGOL Technology Use Statement
•Technology handled with careful
consideration, in moderation, in ways that fit
in with the program's intent and don't
overwhelm, that enhance but don't replace,
and that encourage parent/child interaction
are appropriate for use in Mother Goose on
the Loose programs.

21. Children’s Librarians Must Engage
with New Media for Young
Children
• Ubiquity of tablet technology
• Whether it’s good for kids or not, parents are
handing the devices over
• Access to content (multilingual, diverse, high
quality)
• Societal need for Media Mentorship
• Potential to increase the overall quality of
content

24. Joint Media Engagement
•The New Co-viewing (Joan Ganz Cooney
Center)
•Bringing families together around new
forms of media
•New media can serve as a focal point for
interaction, not the end goal

25. Parent Learning
•Support parents to be their child's first and
best teacher
•To do that they have to learn some skills and
gain some tools
•The use of digital media can support THEIR
learning process

26. Avoiding App Mania
•Just because you're going to model intelligent
use of new media does NOT mean everything
you do has to be app-based
•Present stories, songs & rhymes in lots of
different ways; use new media in a way that
supports engagement and does not distract

27. Read this book for more
information
• New America Foundation
• Lisa Guernsey, Director
of the
New America Foundation
's Early Learning
Initiative
• First edition was Into
the Minds of Babes

28. And read this one too!
• Those who can
manipulate media
• Those who are
manipulated BY media

29. Mother Goose on the
Loose with New Media
Demo

30. Two little monkeys
MGOL APP

31. Dear Zoo

32. Five fat sausages
MGOL APP

33. Take Video
Open them shut them

34. Evilio’s Itsy Bitsy
Spider

38. Let's go to Dover!

39. Leg over leg
The dog went to Dover
He came to a stile
And WHOOPS!
He went over!

45. Animal Sounds
Free Animal Sounds App

46. MGOL APP: jack in the
box

47. MGOL APP: dancing
sheep

48. Grandfather clock

49. Fly buzzing app

50. Fais do do
Colas mon petit frere
Fais do do
T'auras du lolo
Maman est en haut
Qui fait du gateau
Papa est en bas
Qui fait du chocolat

53. Twinkle twinkle the
experience App