Share Paper: Quiet! I’m Reading: Texting in eBooks
Tuesday, June 26 11:05-11:25 AM Oud West
Abstract: We investigated how ten to eleven year-old children texted in small groups within web-based eBooks with embedded games. We investigated both “open texting,” (children texting about what they chose) and “guided texting,” (discussing a suggested topic related to the book). We were interested in: (1) how the students’ texted in the novel digital environment of web-based eBooks with games, and (2) what learning affordances emerged from this texting. Fourth- and fifth- grade students, in a school library, used a web-based system for reading eBooks and texting with others. Their librarian set up the groups and monitored the text conversations. Data ...