The document outlines a workshop for children's librarians focusing on the integration of new media into storytime for young children. Key topics include evaluating apps and ebooks, addressing concerns about screen time, and promoting positive media behaviors. The workshop emphasizes the importance of fostering parent-child relationships and providing guidance on appropriate media usage for children aged 0-5.

1. Rancho Cucamonga
LittleeLit Training
March 26, 2014

2. New Media in Storytime
Cen Campbell
LittleeLit.com & Bookboard.com
Carisa Kluver
Digital-Storytime.com & DigitalMediaDiet.com

5. Goals for the workshop
1. Confidence to begin (or continue!) using
new media in storytime
2. Evaluate Apps & eBooks (appvisory)
3. Traditional storytelling in the digital age
4. Model positive media behaviors

6. Day 1
● Introductions & Expectations
● What is new media?
● New media and kids- concerns
● What is screen time?
● The role of librarians in the new media
conversation

7. Day 2
● Media and device demos (E-books, Book
Apps, Game/Activity Apps, etc)
● Access, Content & Engagement
● Evaluating apps and other digital media
● App reviews- where do you find them?
● Positive media behaviors

8. Introductions
1. Name
2. Position
3. Experience or Interest in New Media &
Young Children

9. Expectations
1. Share Your Experience
2. Share Your Concerns & Ideas
3. Listen & Engage
4. Share your learning goals ...

10. Parking Lot
Post your thoughts, questions, comments
during breaks.

11. A Little about LittleeLit
Young Children, New Media &
Libraries
● Promising practices for the
incorporation of new media
into library collections,
services & programs for
children 0-5

12. Stretch

13. What is new media?
● Not just tablets & apps!
● Any Emergent Ed Tech
● Content creation via camera, video,
microphone & writing/drawing + book
creation tools, etc.
● Multimedia/Transmedia
● Wearable Tech & New, NEW Media!

14. New media is ...
● manipulated
● networkable
● dense
● compressible
● interactive

15. New Media is Evolving …

16. What are some concerns about new
media & young 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)

17. 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?

18. Apps & eBooks
Example & Demo: Sandra Boynton

19. “The Sock Puppet Video”

20. Stretch!

21. Screen Time Poll
How much screen time is appropriate per day
for the following age groups:
1. 0-2 year olds
2. 3 year olds
3. 4 year olds
4. 5 year olds

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

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

24. American Academy of Pediatrics

25. 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

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

27. 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

28. Brazelton Touchpoints

29. Guiding Principles

30. 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

31. 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

32. Stretch!

33. Day 2
● Recap from yesterday
● Settings & Tech
● New media tools
● Access, Content & Engagement
● Talking to Families
● App reviews- finding them, evaluating
evaluators, low cost/free apps?

34. Thoughts from yesterday?

35. Pioneering Literacy

36. Every Child Ready to Read 2(.0)
Practices (ECRR2)
Talk, Sing, Read, Write, Play
Skills (ECRR)
Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge, Phonological
Awareness, Vocabulary, Narrative Skills, Print Motivation

37. Settings
● Guided Access
● Individual app settings
● Device settings
● WiFi/Network

38. Technological Set Up
● AppleTV
● iPad
● TV
● WiFi
● Plan B

39. Felt
Board

40. Felt Board Activity
● Choose a song, story or rhyme you know
● Depict your song, story or rhyme using the
Felt Board app
● Explain how this activity supports one or
more of the early learning practices (talk,
sing, read, write,play)

41. Stretch!

42. What Does it Look Like?

43. Demo:
Wee Sing ABC

44. 3 Cs of Screen Time by Lisa Guernsey
● Content
● Context
● Individual
Child

45. Mother Goose on the Loose
● Musical program for children 3 & under
● Children learn through routine & repetition
in a nurturing environment
● Support parents to be their child’s first &
best teacher
● Rhymes, music, felt board pieces, 80%/20%

46. 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 is
appropriate for use in a Mother Goose on the
Loose program.

47. LittleeLit Guidelines for New Media
in Storytime
● Access: Act as media mentor to your
community & support equitable access to
information
● Content: Content should be high quality &
age appropriate
● Engagement: Any technology use should
support the development of relationships

48. Talking Points Activity
● Engagement: Focus on the parent-child
relationship
● Resources/Research
● Technology as a tool (not a replacement)
● Not all screens are created equal

49. The Best App For Young Children...
...is one that supports the development of a
relationship with another human being.

50. Healthy Screen Time

51. Digital-Storytime.com

52. App Treasure Hunt
What did you learn?
What was easy to find? Hard to find?
Impossible???

53. Review Sources
● Children’s Technology Review
● Common Sense Media
● Digital-Storytime.com
● Horn Book
● Kirkus Reviews
● Little eLit (suggested uses)
● School Library Journal
and your personal network….

54. Evaluating and Choosing Digital Media
● Make intentional decisions
● Explore newly downloaded apps on your own and then
with children
● Look for media that help adults and children write,
read, play, sing and talk TOGETHER
● Consider the 3 C’s: Context, Content, Child

55. Good Book Apps Have...
● Meaningful interactive elements that add to the story
and are not only for inter-activity’s sake
● A great story with high quality images
● Plain, highly-readable font
● Read-to-me and read-to-myself options
● Settings for turning on/off music and other sound
effects

56. Good Game/Activity Apps...
● Are fun to play over and over again
● Offer open-ended play
● Encourage creativity
● Strengthen one or more of the early literacy practices
● Are age appropriate
● Have Intuitive way-finding
● Use a clean, uncluttered display

57. Free Apps & Apps for Free
What’s the difference?
● Free Apps
● Free with in-app purchases, ads, &
links to full versions
● Free and it’s just a teaser
● Free temporarily
● Promo Codes (Little eLit’s promo
code fairy)
More information: How to Find Apps for Free

58. A world of people

59. Final Demo & Evaluation