I used to think that the web stuff was less likely to be of interest to pre-schoolers but it appears I was wrong. Mostly I recommend that we use social media with this group to connect and communicate with a generation of young mothers who are quite comfortable with the medium. That’s still true but maybe there’s a viable plan for toddlers in libraries too.
80% of Children Under Age 5 Use the Internet [STATS]
Via Mashable
“Nearly 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 use the Internet on at least a weekly basis, according to a report released Monday from education non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop.
The report, which was assembled using data from seven recent studies, indicates that young children are increasingly consuming all types of digital media, in many cases consuming more than one type at once.”
Always Connected: The new digitial media habits of young childrenby Aviva Lucas Gutnick et al, March 2011
DOWNLOAD: Report (48 page PDF)
And, as for story time books, you might find the point of view in this posting interesting too.
Picture Books in a Golden Age?
““Children’s literature has entered what many believe to be a new golden age,” she explained. “One in which the artistry in picture books rivals the latest apps, even as the creativity of game designers influences illustration and pacing. Online is often the best place to showcase this work.””
“The web is a better place for showing off picture books. The registration is better, the colors brighter, the size and number of page images potentially larger. And if a crossover with “apps” is going to boost the form’s economic viability, as so many hope, reviewing the results in a digital medium makes sense.”
Are we entering a golden age for children’s books?
Stephen
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Very interesting study. I just decided to bring ebooks to our high school next year but our districts elementary libraries seemed to think none of the younger students or their parents would be interested…got any other articles I can show them to sway their opinion?
@bknrd5974
I am working at an International and Research Centre for Children’s and Young Adult’s Literature in Spain. We are really interested in this research but when we downloaded it and wanted to read it, our word processor didn´t recognize the font text, so instead of a written text, we were in front of a page full of dots and dots.
We have tried to get in contac with the Website, telling them our ploblem and asking for some help.
Could you also please tell us, what could we do to have access to this research we are really interested in?
Kind regards
LecturaLab
You should be able to read it on the screen in your browser window as long as you have Adobe Acrobat loaded (it is free and a basic web tool). This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF so a WP progam is the wrong one to print it with. Another guess is that you may have a very old version of Adobe Acrobat, or you don’t have a fullset of fonts on your printers, or your browser version is out of date. The doc works fine on all of the PC’s I tried it on. Have you tried to print it on a different computer or printer that is configured properly?
Stephen