Click on me! An example of how a toddler used technology in play

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-20

  Smith, Cynthia R ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computers and education; computers and play; early childhood education; emergent literacy; reading education; storybook sharing; technology and literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993683765     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14687984020021001     Document Type: Article

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