Early adopters: Playing new literacies and pretending new technologies in print-centric classrooms

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-140

  Wohlwend, Karen E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Multimodal analysis; New literacy studies; Play; Signs and semiotics; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949144337     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: 17412919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798409105583     Document Type: Article

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