Speaker Feature: Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D.

Presentation Title

Thinking Outside the Page With Children's eBooks

Description
What is "the best children's ebook in the world?" The answer involves a fascinating exploration of digital media. Sometimes it's magic; other times dust. Let's look at examples of both.

Speaker Feature: Kathleen Roskos, Ph.D.

Presentation Title

The Digital Primer: Implications for Early Literacy Instruction 

Description

The shift from print to digital reading devices is changing the early literacy instructional landscape, but we are not quite sure what it all means just yet.

Speaker Feature: Azin Mehrnoosh

Presentation Title
The Data Within Ebooks and Apps

Description
An exploration of bringing data out of ebooks and apps used in classrooms, and making it accessible to educators to improve outcomes.

Speaker Feature: Jessica Wollman

Presentation Title
Storia Enriched eBooks:  Pedagogy and Goals


Description
For more than 90 years, Scholastic has been helping children learn and love to read. The commitment to this mission guided the development of Storia, which unites books and technology to inspire and inform a new generation of readers. Storia’s enriched eBooks service the primary goal of supporting a child’s literacy development by offering a young reader a deeper level of engagement with eBooks. All enrichment activities were designed and tested with input from teachers and kids, as well as internal and external educational advisors.

Speaker Feature: Cynthia Chiong, Ph.D.

Presentation Title
Print books vs. e-books: Comparing parent-child co-reading on print, basic, and enhanced e-book platforms


Description
Our research explores parent-child interactions as they read print and digital books together. We will present findings and discuss implications for e-book design and usage.

Speaker Feature: Linda D. Labbo, Ph.D.

Presentation Title
Young Children Reading and Writing e-books: How Design Matters for Emerging Literacy


Description
Research on reading and writing ebooks suggests that the screen environment can serve as a 3rd literacy teacher for young children - under certain conditions.

Speaker Feature: Ofra Korat, Ph.D.

Presentation Title

Designing and researching e-books as a support for young children’s language and literacy




Description

We researched the efficacy of e-books we designed for supporting young children’s language and literacy. Children from different levels and in diverse contexts improved their abilities.