Supporting digital literacies with touchscreens

The role of multimedia, interactive and personalizeable tech in children's lives

Kucirkova, N. Evertsen-Stanghelle, C., Studsrød, I., Jensen, I. B., & Størksen, I. (2020). Lessons for child-computer interaction studies following the research challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 100203.

Vasalou, A., Kalantari, S., Kucirkova, N., & Vezzoli, Y. (2020). Designing for oral storytelling practices at home: A parental perspective. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 100214.

Vezzoli, Y., Kalantari, S., Kucirkova, N., Vasalou, M. (2020). Exploring the design space for parent-child reading. In Proceedings of the CHI2020 Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Kucirkova, N. (2019) Children’s agency by design: Design parameters for personalization in story-making apps, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, DOI:10.1016/j.ijcci.2019.06.003

Kucirkova, N., Wells Rowe, D., Oliver, L., Piestrzynski, L.E, (2019) Systematic Review of Young Children’s Writing on Screen: What do we know and what do we need to know, Literacy, in press.

Huibers, T., Fails, J. A., Kucirkova, N., Landoni, M., Murgia, E., & Pera, M. S. (2019). 3rd KidRec workshop: What does good look like?. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019 (pp. 681-688). Boise, ID, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3311927.3325162; KidRec initiative:

Kucirkova, N. & Falloon, G. (2018) iPad Apps and Visual Methodologies: Empirical and ethical issues in achieving authentic data, Research in Learning Technology, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v26.2029

Gillen, J. & Kucirkova, N. (2018) Percolating spaces: creative ways of using digital technologies to connect young children's school and home lives, British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12666

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Used in children's homes, examined in a national UK sample and in detailed case studies

Kucirkova, N., Littleton, K. & Kyparissiadis, A. (2017) The influence of parents' and children's gender and age on children's use of digital media at home, British Journal of Educational Technology

Sakr, M. & Kucirkova, N. (2017) Parent-child moments of meeting in art-making with collage, iPad, Tuxpaint and crayons. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 18 (2), Available online from: http://www.ijea.org/v18n2/index.html.

Kucirkova, N. & Sakr, M. (2015) Child-Father creative text-making at home with Crayons, iPad, Collage & PC, Thinking Skills & Creativity, 17, 59-73.

Used in UK and Spanish pre-schools (kindergartens) and primary (elementary) schools

Kucirkova, N. & Littleton, K. (2017) Developing personalised education for personal mobile technologies with the pluralisation agenda, Oxford Review of Education,http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1305046

Kucirkova, N. & Littleton, K. (2015) Digital learning hubs: theoretical and practical ideas for innovating massive open online courses, Learning, Media & Technology, 1-7, doi: 10.1080/17439884.2015.1054835

Flewitt, R.S., Messer, D. and Kucirkova, N. (2015) New directions for early literacy in a digital age: the iPad. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 15 (3), 289-310.

Kucirkova, N., Messer, D., Sheehy, K., & Fernandez-Panadero, C. (2014) Children's engagement with educational iPad apps: insights from a Spanish classroom, Computers & Education, 71, 175-184.

Kucirkova, N. (2014) iPads in early education: separating assumptions and evidence, Frontiers, Educational Psychology, (5), 1-3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00715

Used with vulnerable groups and children with special educational needs

Critten. V. & Kucirkova, N. (2015) Digital Personal Stories: A Case Study of Two African Adolescents, with Severe Learning and Communication Disabilities, Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders, 1(7), online.

Kucirkova, N., Messer, D., Critten, V. & Harwood, J. (2014) Story-making on the iPad when children have complex needs: two case studies, Communication Disorders Quarterly, 36 (1), 44-54.

Flewitt, R.S., Kucirkova, N. and Messer, D. (2014) Touching the virtual, touching the real: iPads and enabling literacy for students with learning disabilities. The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy Special Issue, 37(2), 107-116.

Further related articles:

Kucirkova, N., & Zuckerman, B. (2017). A guiding framework for considering touchscreens in children under two. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2017.03.001

Critten, V., & Kucirkova, N. (2017). ‘It brings it all back, all those good times; it makes me go close to tears’. Creating digital personalised stories with people who have dementia. Dementia, 1471301217691162.

Kucirkova, N. (2016) iRPD- a Framework for guiding design-based Research with iPad apps, British Journal of Educational Technology, published online before print, doi:10.1111/bjet.12389

Book chapters:

Kucirkova, N. (submitted). Against the myth of digital childhoods, In Montgomery, H. & Robb, M. (eds) (2018) Children and young people's worlds, Open University Press.

Kucirkova, N. (submitted) Children’s reading in the digital age: A research summary on children’s digital books, In Ola Erstad, Rosie Flewitt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Íris Susana Pires Pereira (eds) (2019) The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood, Routledge.

Kucirkova, N. (submitted) Personalized learning with digital technologies at home and school: where is children’s agency? In Oakley, G. (ed) (2018) Mobile Technologies in Children's Language and Literacy: Innovative Pedagogy in Preschool and Primary Education, Emerald Publishing.

Levy, R. & Kucirkova, N. (2017) New technologies in the primary and early years classroom. In J. Moyles, J. Georgeson and J. Payler (eds) (2017) Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning: in Early Years and Primary Education (5e). London: Open University Press/McGraw Hill.

Kucirkova, N. (2016) Trans- and intra- apps: innovating the app market and use. In Kucirkova, N. and Falloon, G. (Eds) Apps, technology and younger learners: International perspectives, empirical evidence, implications for practice, London: Routledge.

Levy, R. & Kucirkova, N. (2016) New technologies in the primary and early years classroom. In Moyles, J., Georgeson, J. & Payler, J. (eds), Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning (5th edition), London: McGraw-Hill Education.

Messer, D. & Kucirkova, N. (2016) Researching Children and Young People's Use of Digital Technology, In Jess Prior and Dr Jo Van Herwegen (eds) Practical Research with Children, Routledge UK.

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