The Case of the iPad Mobile Literacies in Education /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burnett, Cathy (Editor), Merchant, Guy (Editor), Simpson, Alyson (Editor), Walsh, Maureen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational technology.; Literacy.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Technology.

This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings. Approaching mobility from diverse theoretical perspectives, the book makes a significant contribution to how mobile literacies, and tablets in p...

Table of Contents:

• 1 The Case of the iPad
• 2 The fluid materiality of tablets: Examining 'the iPad multiple' in a primary classroom
• 3 Russian dolls and three forms of capital: Ecological and sociological perspectives on parents' engagement with young children's tablet use
• 4 Chasing literacies across action texts and augmented realities: E-books, animated apps and Pokemon Go
• 5 Multimodel layering: Students learning with iPads in Primary school classrooms
• 6 The new digital divide: Digital technology policies and provision in Canada and Australia
• 7 Slate-enabled literacy practices in a FutureSchool@Singapore classroom
• 8 Apps and Autodidacts: Wayfaring and emplaced thinking on iPads
• 9 Game 2 Engage: Using iPads to mediate and develop social relationships in college learning
• 10 The affordances of touchscreen tablets and digital cameras as tools for young children's multimodal, multilingual composing
• 11 Personalised story-making on the iPad: Opportunities for developing the Self and building Closeness with others
• 12 Children's engagement with iPads in Early Years classrooms: Exploring peer cultures and transforming practices
• 13 Collaborative and dialogic meaning-making: How children engage and immerse in the storyworld of a mobile game
• 14 Relational methodologies for mobile literacies: Intra-action, rhythm, and atmosphere
• 15 Hands, fingers and iPads
• 16 Mobile literacies in education: Moving from the Word to the World.