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- 2. Goals for Today 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 5. Build personal network for sharing information about new media and kids
- 3. News You Can Use: Carly
- 4. What is new media? ● Not just iPads & apps! ● Any kind of emergent technology ● Content creation: camera, video, book-making, writing, drawing, audio ● Multi & transmedia ● Wearable tech
- 5. What are some concerns about new media & young children? ●
- 6. 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)
- 7. These concerns are all valid. How can children’s librarians support parents & caregivers to make their own healthy media decisions?
- 8. Reasons for Engaging with New Media in Libraries ● 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
- 10. What if we were to commit to ensuring that every family with young children had access to a media mentor?
- 11. Psssssst! You’re already a media mentor!
- 15. What Does it Look Like?
- 18. The Best App For Young Children... ...is one that supports the development of a relationship with another human being.
- 21. Reframing the Issue • There is no either/or • Relationships first, then technology
- 22. New Media for Kids in Libraries Pediatrics Pedagogy
- 23. American Academy of Pediatrics
- 24. 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
- 29. 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
- 30. 3 Cs of Screen Time by Lisa Guernsey ● Content ● Context ● Individual Child
- 31. Tips for parents on how to support their children to be love reading; with print AND digital books.
- 33. Other resources Fred Rogers Center ELE Joan Ganz Cooney Center Dot complicated Cyberwise Born Reading Common Sense Media NAMLE
- 34. Images that make us sad
- 35. New Media Storytime! Storytime as a venue for media mentorship.
- 36. General Guidelines • Start with a buddy! • Tie content to the collection • Start with books & music you already love • Always test out apps the day you share them • Balance tech & non-tech • Hand held or mirrored? • Try not to use apps with ads • Use mix of paid & free content • Have a backup • If you have tech difficulties, talk through it
- 37. Suggested Apps to Try out • Animal Sounds • Grow a Reader • Bean’s baby • Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy • Boynton 4-pack • Mother Goose on the • Byron Barton Collection 1 Loose App • Endless ABC • Sock puppets • Felt Board App • Wee Sing ABC • Four Little Corners
- 38. Keep in Mind • Be explicit for caregivers WHY you are using the screen/iPad, make sure you know for whose benefit you have chosen a digital tool • Digital tools DO NOT replace any of our current storytelling tools; they are another tool in the toolkit • Use the best tool for the job (hint: a lot of the time, the best tool is NOT digital!) • We want parents to be able to ask us questions about this topic; they won’t if they feel judged • Children under 2 shouldn’t have too much access to technology. But it might support their caregiver’s learning process.
- 39. 3 Easy Ways to Get Started • Find your favourite Storytime Book digitally (app, iBooks, Kindle, Nook, library offerings etc) • Try a Digital Felt Board • Post lyrics, welcome and/or resource slides for the parents
- 40. Tips & Tricks • Set Up (wired or wireless?) • Lyrics (projected) • Felt Board/MGOL (live or screen shot) • Digital Books (always have paper copies to check out, or on same theme; you can use books you’ve never been able to use before) • Images (non-fiction! Create your own content!) • Sounds (what does a peacock REALLY sound like?)
- 46. Make It! Salmonberry Photo Courtesy of Nomemade
- 47. Mother Goose on the Loose!
- 49. How do you evaluate books?
- 50. How do you evaluate books? Reviews Know the Author, Illustrator or Publisher High Quality Text High Quality Illustrations Easy Navigation It Doesn’t Crash High Quality Content Know the Developer
- 51. Evaluating and Choosing Digital Media ● Make intentional decisions about digital media with kids ● Explore newly downloaded apps on your own and then together with young children ● Look for apps and other media that help adults and children write, read, play, sing and talk TOGETHER (EECR2 early literacy practices for kids under 8) ● Consider the 3 C’s: Context, Content, Child (discussed in Screen Time by Lisa Guernsey)
- 52. Good Book Apps Have... ● Meaningful interactive elements that add to the story and are not only for interactivity’s sake (Interactive elements shouldn’t distract from the story) ● 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
- 53. 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 (ECRR/ECRR2) ● Are age appropriate ● Have Intuitive way-finding ● Use a clean, uncluttered display
- 54. High Quality Developers Oceanhouse Media Nosy Crow Loud Crow Toca Boca Sago Sago National Geographic Random House Duck Duck Moose Night & Day We Are Wheelbarrow Software Smoothie
- 55. How do parents feel about finding high quality apps?
- 56. 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….
- 57. I trust librarian reviews more than other reviewers...
- 58. Walk Through Review Sources
- 60. Pair Activity: Book App Evaluation Read a Book App out loud to your partner See if you can find a review for it How might this app support Early Learning Practices?
- 61. ECRR Practices/Skills Talk Sing Read Write Play Phonological Awareness Vocabulary Print Motivation Print Awareness Letter Knowledge Narrative Skills
- 62. Book Apps!
- 63. Some Good Free Apps ● Felt Board- Mother Goose on the Loose ● Bean’s Baby ● The Artist Who Stole Bits of the World ● Grow a Reader ● Amazing Xylophone ● Animal Sounds- Fun Toddler Game ● MOMA Color Lab ● Exploratorium
- 64. 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 More information: How to Find Apps for Free
- 66. Where Can I Learn About Free Apps?
- 70. Felt Board
- 71. Pair Activity Choose a Book, Song, Story or Rhyme Make a Felt Board story!
- 74. International Children’s Digital Library E-Books from over 60 countries in a wide variety of languages Access to otherwise inaccessible titles Designed to provide books to underserved kids with limited library access
- 75. Apps that Explicitly Support Engagement
- 76. Developers Want Parents to Engage Many app developers include tips for parents & teachers on how to use the app as a springboard for engagement, conversation, relationship building or real-world activities.
- 77. Kathy Reid-Naiman’s Together Time
- 78. Apps for Oral Storytelling?! This whole “printing press” thing will ruin our children’s ability to commit our culturally significant stories to memory!
- 80. Using New Media to Record Stories How might we use mobile devices to record and share our own stories?
- 82. Pair Activity Choose an App to tell your own story! ● 30hands ● Sock Puppets
- 83. Apps to Tell Stories Felt Board Haiku Deck iMovie Infiniscroll Keynote Kid In Story My Story
- 84. Calgary Public Library: Grow a Reader
- 86. Mother Goose on the Loose App
- 87. Traditional Storytelling Tools ● Felt Boards ● Puppets ● Handouts ● “Big Books” ● Music
- 88. Handouts ● Lyrics or words posted on screen during program ● Uploaded to library’s website for access later ● Benefits include: not having paper strewn about program room, anytime access for parents to remember songs, faces pointed up to sing instead of down in their laps
- 89. “Big Books” ● Digital books can be as big as your screen allows ● Huge storytelling books; always have physical copies available for checkout if you have them
- 90. Digital Music and Audio Devices provide easy access to a variety of music and audio perfect for storytime Apps: iTunes, Overdrive, SoundCloud Recorded sounds like animal calls can be paired with related animal books
- 91. Model Positive Media Behaviors ● Joint Media Engagement: Fancy words for time-tested concept “read to your bunny, and your bunny will read to you!” ● Content, Context & the Individual Child ● Age-appropriate & intentional usage
- 92. Make a Book! Use the My Story App to tell your own story!
- 93. Not Just Book-Based Apps!
- 94. Pair Activity: App Evaluation Read a Non-Book App out loud to your partner See if you can find a review for it How might this app support Early Learning Practices?