Final Project: Describing Communication Technologies

Literacy in the Digital Age

For our final assignment, my colleague Sarah Hain and I focused on a development in technology called Raz-Kids. Through research of our own, as well as, interviews with teachers and students in the field, Sarah and I created a podcast to evaluate the implications of Raz-Kids on literacy and education.

Click below to listen to a podcast about digital literacy tools within the classroom:

https://open.spotify.com/show/0y2CVBBP6RKHPoUlQa5w9a

References

Aukerman, M., Grovet, K., & Belfatti, M. (2019). Race, Ideology, and Cultural Representation in Raz-Kids. Language Arts, 96(5), 286-299.

Barzillai, M., & Thomson, J. M. (2018). Children learning to read in a digital world. First Monday.

Jones, T., & Brown, C. (2011). Reading engagement: A comparison between e-books and traditional print books in an elementary classroom. Online Submission, 4(2), 5-22.

Kucirkova, N., & Littleton, K. (2016). The digital reading habits of children. A National Survey of Parents’ Perceptions of and Practices in Relation to Children’s Reading for Pleasure with Print and Digital Books.

Larson, L. C. (2015). E‐books and audiobooks: Extending the digital reading experience. The Reading Teacher, 69(2), 169-177.

Raz-Kids. (n.d.). About Raz-Kids. https://www.raz-kids.com/main/AboutRazKids/

Set-BC. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://www.setbc.org/

Winans, A. R. (2016). Swipe, Tap, and Read: Research on E-book Tools, Features, and Student Engagement.

https://open.spotify.com/show/0y2CVBBP6RKHPoUlQa5w9aWong, K. M., & Neuman, S. B. (2019). The power of a story: Reading live and electronic storybooks to young children. In Reading in the Digital Age: Young Children’s Experiences with E-books (pp. 157-173). Springer, Cham.

Wylie, J., Thomson, J., Leppänen, P., Ackerman, R., Kanniainen, L., & Prieler, T. (2018). Cognitive processes and digital reading. Learning to read in a digital world, 17, 57-90.