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One Classroom, One iP ad, Many Stories
Author(s) -
Fantozzi Victoria B.,
Johnson Christi,
Scherfen Anneliese
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1651
Subject(s) - storytelling , literacy , psychology , digital storytelling , meaning (existential) , story telling , digital literacy , pedagogy , action (physics) , multimedia , linguistics , computer science , narrative , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
Every day, we are surrounded by stories in print, on social media, in blogs, on the radio, and in stories from our friends and family. The ways people make meaning and communicate are increasingly multimodal and digital; yet, the preschool classroom, for all its multimodal learning, is sometimes devoid of technology. In this action research project, the authors integrated an iP ad into a play‐based preschool classroom to support emergent literacy and playful storytelling. The students used multimodal and multi‐actor storytelling to collaborate, navigate their places in the classroom, and connect their school experiences to their home lives.