The ability to negotiate digital forms of literacy carries high stakes for life destinations but in early childhood education, literacy still tends to be approached as predominantly print-based. The technologies through which children now engage with all forms of knowledge are constantly changing with the widespread use of an array of digital, interactive, converged and personalised devices. These are transforming the skills and literacies needed by even the youngest children to be competent actors in the world while, at the same time, challenging the efforts of parents and teachers to support their learning. The development of relevant skills and knowledge for reading and writing contemporary texts is crucial for educational, economic, social and cultural progress in Europe. The proposed Action will create an interdisciplinary network to examine how young children
Action keywords
digital literacy - early childhood - multimodality - media literacy - new technologies
Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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IT-Iscte | Information Technology Group | Partner | 2015-04-24 | 2019-03-23 |
Institution | Country | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) | Portugal | Partner | 2015-04-24 | 2019-04-23 |
Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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Isabel Machado Alexandre | Professora Auxiliar (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (IT-Iscte); | Local Coordinator | 2015-04-24 | 2019-04-23 |
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