Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood

Introduction

Mapping out the Terrain of This Book

Pedagogical Features

1 Setting a Context for Exploring Critical and

Media Literacies Using Technology

Differential Access and Connectivity

New Technologies as Tools for Engaging in Critical Literacy Work

Key Aspects of Critical Literacy

Who We Are

Extending Children's Repertoire of Literacy and Communications Practices

New Technologies Does Not Equal Critical Literacy

PART ONE

One Teacher's Journey

Subtle and Explicit Uses of Technology

Re-Designing My Little Pony

Using Technology as a Teaching and Communicative Tool

2 Building Relationships Between Home and School With the Use of Technology

Teaching and Learning with Pre-K and K Children: The First Month

Establishing a Home/School Partnership Through Documenting and Sharing Learning

3 Beginning With Coming Together as a Community to Create Spaces for Critical Literacy

Hello My Names Are/ Hello My Names Are Not

Names Are Not Just Names

Seamlessly Creating a Generative Curriculum

4 Reading With Text and Against Text With Young Children

Reading With the Text

Reading Against the Text

I'm Glad I'm a Boy! I'm Glad I'm a Girl!

Reading With and Against Froodle

Discussing Froodle

Lessons from Kushi

5 Working With Multimedia Text and Technology

Layered Response to a Multimedia Text

Where Was Their Home?

Gloves for the Homeless

PART TWO

Further Insights into Teaching with Technology

6 Yes We Can!: Using Technology as a Tool for Social Action

Building From Children's Inquiry Questions

Travel Trunks: Using the Internet as Text and Tool

Creating Space for Social Action

7 Our Families Don't Understand English!

What Is a Podcast?

Creating 100% Kids

Introducing Subrina

Exclusion and Inclusion

Negotiating Identities/Growing Literacies

Creating New Spaces for Participation

The Final Show

Children's Construction of Identity

8 What About Antarctica?

Reading the Clustr Map

Further Explorations

The 100% Kids Clustr Map

Columbia Gets a Dot

9 The Tomato Trials

Backbreaking Work?

Critically Reading the Web

The Trials Begin

Tomato Trial Findings

In Retrospect

10 Desires, Identities, and New Communication Technologies

Meaningful and Sustained Learning

Learning From Our Students