4. LittleeLit.com
• Young Children,
New Media &
Libraries:
• Promising practices
for the
incorporation of
new media into
library collections,
services & programs
for children 0-5 and
their families
5. What is new media?
• Not just tablets & apps:
any emergent educational
technology
• Content creation via
camera, video,
microphone &
writing/drawing & book
creation tools, etc.
• Multimedia/Transmedia
• Wearable Tech
6. New Media is:
• Manipulated
• Networkable
• Dense
• Compressible
• Interactive
7. What’s happening right now?
•What are the current controversies?
•What have your heard or read about lately
•What’s brewing at LittleeLit ...
8. Concerns about new media & children
• Commercial messages
• Displacement of time
doing other things
• Eye/Neck/Body/Brain
strain
• Less creative and open-
ended play
•Less time running
around outside
•Sleep disruptions
•Age inappropriate
content
•Under 2s (AAP)
9. These concerns are all valid
• How can children’s librarians provide
guidance for the use of new formats given
that we have no long term research on the
effects of mobile media with young children?
10. Model for Young Children, New
Media & Libraries is a combination
of:
Pediatrics Pedagogy
11. Technology with young children!?
•NAEYC/Fred Rogers Joint Position
Statement
•American Academy of Pediatrics
•Brazelton Touchpoints Guiding Principles
•Goose 2.0 Use of Technology Statement
13. Parent Recommendations from
the AAP Guidelines
• Limit “entertainment” screen time to <1-2
hours a day
• Discourage screen media for children <2
• Keep screen media out of child’s bedroom
• Monitor media usage
• Coview
• Establish family media plan
14. NAEYC/Fred Rogers
• When used intentionally and appropriately, technology and
interactive media are effective tools to support learning and
development
• Intentional use requires early childhood teachers and administrators
to have information and resources regarding the nature of these tools
and the implications of their use with children
16. Guidelines for Educators
• Select, use, integrate & evaluate media in
intentional & age-appropriate ways
• Balance of tech & non-tech
• Prohibit use of passive media
• Limit use for <2 year olds
• Consider recommendations from health orgs
• Equitable access to technology
19. Guiding Principles to Focus on
• Focus on the parent-child relationship
• Recognize what you bring to the interaction
• Be willing to discuss matters that go beyond
your traditional role
20. MGOL Technology Use Statement
•Technology handled with careful
consideration, in moderation, in ways that fit
in with the program's intent and don't
overwhelm, that enhance but don't replace,
and that encourage parent/child interaction
are appropriate for use in Mother Goose on
the Loose programs.
21. Children’s Librarians Must Engage
with New Media for Young
Children
• Ubiquity of tablet technology
• Whether it’s good for kids or not, parents are
handing the devices over
• Access to content (multilingual, diverse, high
quality)
• Societal need for Media Mentorship
• Potential to increase the overall quality of
content
22.
23.
24. Joint Media Engagement
•The New Co-viewing (Joan Ganz Cooney
Center)
•Bringing families together around new
forms of media
•New media can serve as a focal point for
interaction, not the end goal
25. Parent Learning
•Support parents to be their child's first and
best teacher
•To do that they have to learn some skills and
gain some tools
•The use of digital media can support THEIR
learning process
26. Avoiding App Mania
•Just because you're going to model intelligent
use of new media does NOT mean everything
you do has to be app-based
•Present stories, songs & rhymes in lots of
different ways; use new media in a way that
supports engagement and does not distract
27. Read this book for more
information
• New America Foundation
• Lisa Guernsey, Director
of the
New America Foundation
's Early Learning
Initiative
• First edition was Into
the Minds of Babes
28. And read this one too!
• Those who can
manipulate media
• Those who are
manipulated BY media
Describe LittleeLit.com, with a history of how it started and what it does now. Cen began recording experimenting with using apps & eBooks in storytime, and started getting requests from all over the country with people asking for more info. A community of practice was born which includes almost 200 members now (and everyone in the training is invited to join the think tank as well by using our contact form and asking to join)
Cen
There are a lot of concerns about the use of new media with young children
Cen & Carisa
mention parent learning; use of new media to support parental learning
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Carisa
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Introduce this topic by asking the group, “How do you see people using tablet tech with young kids in your libraries?” then show slide and discuss concepts related to new media and the cultural saturation of this tech. The shift to reading traditional print media on tablets and eReaders require librarians to be more flexible now than ever before. With format in flux, curators of content need to become familiar not only with a variety of media formats but also devices, ways to access content and common misconceptions about digital media among consumers. We are in an in-between or ‘liminal’ space right now and future librarians may not need to be as ‘digitally ambidextrous’ but those willing to blaze this trail now will find the need is great.