Open-Ended Apps in Kindergarten: Identity Exploration Through Digital Role-Play
This 2-year research study followed 14 kindergarten classrooms in Ontario as they used open-ended tablet applications to support literacy learning. Through multimodal slideshows the children explored identities such as reporter, teacher, and architect during self-initiated role-play. The slideshows...
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Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal |
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| description | This 2-year research study followed 14 kindergarten classrooms in Ontario as they used open-ended tablet applications to support literacy learning. Through multimodal slideshows the children explored identities such as reporter, teacher, and architect during self-initiated role-play. The slideshows they created demonstrated multimodal productions that were longer, more complex, and more varied than their literacy production with traditional literacy tools and practices. Rather than supplanting traditional kindergarten meaning-making practices such as role-play, children folded digital affordances into their play in ways that expanded the range of identities they explored and the tools and practices with which they explored them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-167c57eefda545278f6b5e9b02743b6c2022-12-22T01:30:42ZengLanguage and Literacy Researchers of CanadaLanguage and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal1496-09742019-01-01204405410.20360/langandlit2943929439Open-Ended Apps in Kindergarten: Identity Exploration Through Digital Role-PlayMonica McGlynn-Stewart0Leah Brathwaite1Lisa Hobman2Nicola Maguire3Emma Mogyorodi4George Brown CollegeGeorge Brown CollegeGeorge Brown CollegeGeorge Brown CollegeRyerson UniversityThis 2-year research study followed 14 kindergarten classrooms in Ontario as they used open-ended tablet applications to support literacy learning. Through multimodal slideshows the children explored identities such as reporter, teacher, and architect during self-initiated role-play. The slideshows they created demonstrated multimodal productions that were longer, more complex, and more varied than their literacy production with traditional literacy tools and practices. Rather than supplanting traditional kindergarten meaning-making practices such as role-play, children folded digital affordances into their play in ways that expanded the range of identities they explored and the tools and practices with which they explored them.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29439 |
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| title | Open-Ended Apps in Kindergarten: Identity Exploration Through Digital Role-Play |
| title_full | Open-Ended Apps in Kindergarten: Identity Exploration Through Digital Role-Play |
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| title_short | Open-Ended Apps in Kindergarten: Identity Exploration Through Digital Role-Play |
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