SLIDE 1 Screentime Together
Getting Apps into Laps
Decoda Literacy Conference 2017 Lindsey Krabbenhoft and Francesca de Freitas Children’s Librarians Vancouver Public Library
SLIDE 2 Plan for today
- Introductions
- Surveying current messages
- Talking to families
- Modelling for families
- Making spaces for families
- Questions
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What is the media telling families?
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What are doctors telling families?
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What are researchers telling families?
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What are researchers telling families?
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Why do we talk to families?
SLIDE 8 How did we talk to families?
- Parents’ Time Out
- Early years needs and
school-aged needs
SLIDE 9 What were our key messages?
Middle Years (6-12) Early Years (0-5) Literacy 3 C’s for Choosing Apps: Content Context Child Apps in Laps Create Collaborate Learn
SLIDE 10 What was the result?
- “Showing and using the iPad together (like parent and
child)”
- “There are some good apps for kids”
- “Everything! I hadn’t explored apps at all for my toddler
son”
- “Talking, singing, reading, playing, tracing”
- “Hands on experience with the apps & I love the
‘transition song’”
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How did we model for families?
SLIDE 12 What are our key messages?
Middle Years (6-12) Early Years (0-5) Literacy 3 C’s for Choosing Apps: Content Context Child Apps in Laps Create Collaborate Learn
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What was the result?
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How did we makes spaces for families? Physical Spaces Online Spaces
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Physical spaces
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Online spaces
SLIDE 17 What are our key messages?
Middle Years (6-12) Early Years (0-5) Literacy 3 C’s for Choosing Apps: Content Context Child Apps in Laps Create Collaborate Learn
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Questions and discussion
SLIDE 19 Questions you think of on the way home?
Email us!
- Lindsey Krabbenhoft: lindsey.krabbenhoft@vpl.ca
- Francesca de Freitas: francesca.defreitas@vpl.ca
