Background In today's society, a growing body of literature attests to the importance of young
children's early digital literacy skills in their home environments and how acquisition of these …

This study aims to investigate the ways in which a particular digital technology, the
Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), mediates preschool teachers' teaching. Over five months in …

In this paper, we advocate a reconceptualisation of early learning in the 21st century in the
form of multimodal lifeworlds. We review the research literature on the role of new …

This paper addresses the use of digital and information literacy with primary pupils and its
relationship with the development of literacy inside and outside school. Information and …

Use of screen devices has become a standard practice in modern parenting. Research has
shown that screen devices can be strategically used as tools, either for babysitting or for …

This paper discusses findings from online surveys completed by parents of 0–3-year-old
children in Norway, Portugal and Japan concerning their young children's use of …

New sociomaterial and performative directions in literacy research on digital technologies
and play in early childhoods may complicate the established concept of digital play. This …

This chapter focuses on children aged around 5‐11 insofar as this is the population most
able to extract value from digital content while also being intrinsically different from older …

This paper discusses characteristics of converged play for early childhood education. The
characteristics were derived from a four-year study of teachers' interpretation and use of …

The existing evidence shows that parental engagement is one of the most effective
educational interventions. Most parents, carers, and teachers are aware of that and wish to …