Are we spinning or is it the board? Young children’s interaction with an interactive whiteboard in preschool
Publication details
| Year: | 2015 |
| Issued: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page: | 124 |
| End Page: | 144 |
| Editors: | |
| Authors: | Hvit Lindstrand S. |
| Type: | Journal article |
| Journal: | Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy |
| Publisher: | Universitetsforlaget (The Scandinavian University Press) in collaboration with the University of Bergen |
| Topics: | Learning; Internet usage, practices and engagement; Literacy and skills |
| Sample: | A preschool group with fifteen children aged one to three years, and four preschool teachers, in 1 preschool in Sweden. |
| Implications For Educators About: | Professional development; Other |
Abstract
The present study explores young children’s interaction with an interactive whiteboard (IWB) in a Swedish preschool. Analyses of video recordings show how the children, through embodied and multi-directional interactions, interpret, explore and construct signs on the IWB. By relating children’s careful explorations to meaning-making and sign-making, interactions at the IWB can be looked upon as part of children’s initial literate explorations in multimodal text productions.
Outcome
"This study shows that young children use a multitude of modes in exploring and understanding themselves and their surroundings using new technology. For preschool educators, new technologies may offer new ways of enhancing children’s meaning-making, play and learning. In order to help pre- school educators leverage this potential of new technologies, it is critical to provide them with a theoretical framework for conceptualizing the different literacies that preschool children are engaged in." (Author, 142)