Book description
A guide to promoting literacy in the digital age
With young children gaining access to a dizzying array of games, videos, and other digital media, will they ever learn to read? The answer is yes—if they are surrounded by adults who know how to help and if they are introduced to media designed to promote literacy, instead of undermining it. Tap, Click, Read gives educators and parents the tools and information they need to help children grow into strong, passionate readers who are skilled at using media and technology of all kinds—print, digital, and everything in between.
In Tap, Click, Read authors Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine envision a future that is human-centered first and tech-assisted second. They document how educators and parents can lead a new path to a place they call 'Readialand'—a literacy-rich world that marries reading and digital media to bring knowledge, skills, and critical thinking to all of our children. This approach is driven by the urgent need for low-income children and parents to have access to the same 21st-century literacy opportunities already at the fingertips of today's affluent families.With stories from homes, classrooms and cutting edge tech labs, plus accessible translation of new research and compelling videos, Guernsey and Levine help educators, parents, and America's leaders tackle the questions that arise as digital media plays a larger and larger role in children's lives, starting in their very first years of life.
Tap, Click, Read includes an analysis of the exploding app marketplace and provides useful information on new review sites and valuable curation tools. It shows what to avoid and what to demand in today's apps and e-books—as well as what to seek in community preschools, elementary schools and libraries. Peppered with the latest research from fields as diverse as neuroscience and behavioral economics and richly documented examples of best practices from schools and early childhood programs around the country, Tap, Click, Read will show you how to:
Promote the adult-child interactions that help kids grow into strong readers
Learn how to use digital media to build a foundation for reading and success
Discover new tools that open up avenues for creativity, critical thinking, and knowledge-building that today's children need
The book's accompanying website, TapClickRead.org, keeps you updated on new research and provides vital resources to help parents, schools and community organizations.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Part 1: Imagining the Class of 2030
- Part 2: Surveying the New Literacy Landscape
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Part 3: The Pioneers
- Chapter 9: Why Adults Still Matter Most
- Chapter 10: A Different Kind of Screen Time
- Chapter 11: Nudged toward Conversational Duets
- Chapter 12: Science, Social Studies, and More: The Knowledge Readers Need
- Chapter 13: An Expanding Universe of Reading Partners
- Chapter 14: Developing Focused Attention and Motivation
- Chapter 15: Paper and Print? Yes
- Part 4: Homesteading for the Next Generation
- Resources
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2015
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781119091899
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