Designing technology for emergent literacy: The PictoPal initiative

Computers and Education

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 719-729

  McKenney, Susan ^a   Voogt, Joke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early literacy; Emergent literacy; Kindergarten; Technology integration

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

COMPUTER ACTIVITIES; COMPUTER CLASSROOMS; EARLY LITERACY; EMERGENT LITERACY; KINDERGARTEN; LEARNING EFFECTS; LITERACY LEARNING; OBSERVATION DATUM; POST TESTS; TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION; WRITING SKILLS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 60449095113     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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