Beyond Piñatas, Fortune Cookies, and Wooden Shoes: Using the World Wide Web to Help Children Explore the Whole Wide World

Beyond Borders-Digital Tablets as a Resource for Pre-school Children’s Communication in a Minority Language

“…In this study, the talking dictionary applications can be compared to the virtual experiments of Petersson, Lantz Andersson & Säljö (2013), where the outcome was quite fixed, and where there was little room for the children's own design. On the other hand, applications based on content created by the children, such as Skype, can be seen as more authentic because the children can actually see each other or themselves, which is in line with the findings of Kirkwood, Shulsky & Willis (2014). These affordances, built on visual video and online modes, prove to be vital for children to communicate in a minority language, as shown in the second example.…”

Digital Storytelling for Transformative Global Citizenship Education

“…Although there is emerging scholarship on the innovative ways teachers are using digital technologies to advance the goals of global citizenship education (Barnatt, Winter, Norman, Baker, & Wieczorek, 2014;Gaudelli, 2006;Kirkwood, Shulsky, & Willis, 2014;Lee & Friedman, 2009;Merryfield, 2007), such practices have yet to become mainstream in K-12 classrooms (Evans, 2006;VanFossen & Berson, 2008). Digital storytelling is evolving as a potentially powerful innovation to support the aims of global citizenship education while meeting the demands of a digitally immersed student population.…”

Digital and Traditional Learning: Learning Styles with Music and Technology for Early Childhood Education

“…In another viewpoint, some researchers believe technology can support young children to work collaboratively and to become social people [9]. Kirkwood et al [10] and Kazakoff and Bers [11] proposed that technology can improve pupils' social interactions and benefit their understanding during their learning process. Nowadays, many family favorite pastimes include digital computers, smartphones, and social media [12,13].…”