Digital Childhoods: Technologies and Children’s Everyday Lives, 2018
This study examined a literacy playshop curriculum that integrated maker literacies (i.e., collab... more This study examined a literacy playshop curriculum that integrated maker literacies (i.e., collaborative play, toyhacking, filmmaking, video editing, and remixing media) in two US teacher education classes with approximately 40 university students. Preservice teachers engaged in digital puppetry activities using makerspace tools, iPads, and puppetry apps for young children. The preservice teachers used craft materials to hack or redesign favorite media characters’ action figures to make interactive puppets for original films and for teaching a filmmaking lesson with a young child. Nexus analysis of literacy playshop activity analyzed preservice teachers’ knowledge of seemingly “intuitive” digital literacies as a nexus of practice, or the tacit expectations, social practices, and text conventions in viral videos or computer apps that become engrained through engagements with immersive and embodied technologies. The chapter concludes with a summary of maker literacies and implications for early education gleaned from the complex interactions around teaching and learning through collaborative storytelling with iPad touchscreens.
This article examines the impact of immigration on Korean children through a content and literary... more This article examines the impact of immigration on Korean children through a content and literary analysis of 14 children's picture books. A majority of published children's literature dealing with the subject of Korean Americans or Korean immigration contains culturally specific themes common to the Korean immigration experience. These include English acquisition difficulties, assimilation through name selection, language mediation, family separation and abandonment, and positive experiences post-immigration. While unassumingly couched in children's fiction, these issues reflect real-life experiences and are analyzed here through a social and cultural context. I provide suggestions for applying the article's findings in classrooms, schools, and districts in order to ease acculturation and transition procedures for Korean families. The article may appeal to readers interested in immigration issues, the interplay between home and school environments, language barriers for second language learners, and social studies issues found in children's fiction.
Digital Childhoods: Technologies and Children’s Everyday Lives, 2018
This study examined a literacy playshop curriculum that integrated maker literacies (i.e., collab... more This study examined a literacy playshop curriculum that integrated maker literacies (i.e., collaborative play, toyhacking, filmmaking, video editing, and remixing media) in two US teacher education classes with approximately 40 university students. Preservice teachers engaged in digital puppetry activities using makerspace tools, iPads, and puppetry apps for young children. The preservice teachers used craft materials to hack or redesign favorite media characters’ action figures to make interactive puppets for original films and for teaching a filmmaking lesson with a young child. Nexus analysis of literacy playshop activity analyzed preservice teachers’ knowledge of seemingly “intuitive” digital literacies as a nexus of practice, or the tacit expectations, social practices, and text conventions in viral videos or computer apps that become engrained through engagements with immersive and embodied technologies. The chapter concludes with a summary of maker literacies and implications for early education gleaned from the complex interactions around teaching and learning through collaborative storytelling with iPad touchscreens.
This article examines the impact of immigration on Korean children through a content and literary... more This article examines the impact of immigration on Korean children through a content and literary analysis of 14 children's picture books. A majority of published children's literature dealing with the subject of Korean Americans or Korean immigration contains culturally specific themes common to the Korean immigration experience. These include English acquisition difficulties, assimilation through name selection, language mediation, family separation and abandonment, and positive experiences post-immigration. While unassumingly couched in children's fiction, these issues reflect real-life experiences and are analyzed here through a social and cultural context. I provide suggestions for applying the article's findings in classrooms, schools, and districts in order to ease acculturation and transition procedures for Korean families. The article may appeal to readers interested in immigration issues, the interplay between home and school environments, language barriers for second language learners, and social studies issues found in children's fiction.
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