Screentime Together Getting Apps into Laps Decoda Literacy Conference 2017 Lindsey Krabbenhoft and Francesca de Freitas Children’s Librarians Vancouver Public Library
Plan for today ● Introductions ● Surveying current messages ● Talking to families ● Modelling for families ● Making spaces for families ● Questions
What is the media telling families?
What are doctors telling families?
What are researchers telling families?
What are researchers telling families?
Why do we talk to families?
How did we talk to families? ● Parents’ Time Out ● Early years needs and school-aged needs
What were our key messages? Early Years (0-5) Middle Years (6-12) Literacy 3 C’s for Choosing Apps: Content Context Child Create Apps in Laps Collaborate Learn
What was the result? ● “Showing and using the iPad together (like parent and child)” ● “There are some good apps for kids” ● “Everything! I hadn’t explored apps at all for my toddler son” ● “Talking, singing, reading, playing, tracing” ● “Hands on experience with the apps & I love the ‘transition song’”
How did we model for families?
What are our key messages? Early Years (0-5) Middle Years (6-12) Literacy 3 C’s for Choosing Apps: Content Context Child Create Apps in Laps Collaborate Learn
What was the result?
How did we makes spaces for families? Physical Spaces Online Spaces
Physical spaces
Online spaces
What are our key messages? Early Years (0-5) Middle Years (6-12) Literacy 3 C’s for Choosing Apps: Content Context Child Create Apps in Laps Collaborate Learn
Questions and discussion
Questions you think of on the way home? Email us! ● Lindsey Krabbenhoft: lindsey.krabbenhoft@vpl.ca ● Francesca de Freitas: francesca.defreitas@vpl.ca
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