This document discusses guidance for using eBooks in early childhood education. It addresses what technology means in this context, developmentally appropriate practices, and benefits of eBooks. While an older study showed that children using eReaders engaged less with story content, the moral is that eBooks don't need to be solitary - who reads with a child is as important as what they read. The document concludes with a quote emphasizing listening to and learning from children.

1. New Ways of Reading:
Guidance for Using
eBooks in Early
Childhood Education
Michael Robb, Ph.D.
Director of Education and Research
Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media

4. What do we mean by technology?
Old & New / Analog & Digital / Low & Hi-tech

5. What is the position?

8. DAP =
Developmentally Appropriate Practice
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9. Courtesy of Cassandra Mattoon
Benefits!

10. OR
How should we think
about eBooks?

11. Consider this study…
(I know, it’s an older device.)

15. Parent Reading Behaviors

16. Moral of the story:
eBooks don’t have to be an individual activity.
Consider who is reading with a child as much
as what a child is reading.

17. “Please think of the children
first. If you ever have
anything to do with their
entertainment, their food,
their toys, their custody, their
day or night care, their
education – listen to the
children, learn about them,
learn from them. Think of the
children first.”
The World According to Mister
Rogers