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Lori Bruner; Natalia I. Kucirkova – Journal of Children and Media, 2025
In this study, we examine preschool storybook apps to identify the types of characters represented in these stories and how they relate to design quality and opportunities for children to build their vocabularies -- a significant predictor of later success in learning to read. Specifically, we sought to understand (a) how storybook apps portray…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Computer Software, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs
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Lombard, Jordan; Bråten, Ivar; van de Leemput, Cécile; Amadieu, Franck – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
This study addressed whether an application adapted to working with multiple documents implemented in an iPad Pro tablet would promote students' multiple document comprehension and acceptance of tablets as a multiple document learning tool relative to controls who used a traditional application adapted to sequential reading of single documents.…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Reading Comprehension, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Materials
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Ayse Derya Eskimen – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Today, traditional literacy habits are changing with various technological tools in digital environments. Social reading platforms are one of these innovations and changes. These networks are widely used in the world and in Turkey. The application "1000Kitap," the largest book reader network in Turkey, is one of these social networks. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Reading Materials, Reading Programs
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Kucirkova, Natalia; Flewitt, Rosie – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This paper reports on UK primary school teachers' and children's app developers' views about the potential of using personalized digital resources to promote young children's reading and play with 'smart toys'. Many existing digital resources are 'personalised', that is, the content of a story or game is tailored to an individual child, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology
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Ishikawa, Yasushige; Smith, Craig; Kondo, Mutsumi; Akano, Ichiro; Maher, Kate; Wada, Norihisa – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2014
This paper reports on the use of an English-language reading practice application for an Android tablet computer with students who are not native speakers of English. The application materials for vocabulary learning in reading-passage contexts were created to include words from a database of low-frequency and technical noun-verb collocations…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
Britton, Gwyneth; Lumpkin, Margaret – 1978
This booklet is comprised primarily of the summaries of computerized readability assessments of sample passages from each story or chapter in a reading textbook series for grades one through eight. Introductory chapters offer discussions of the computerized readability assessment program used, the various uses of readability information about a…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques, Readability
Classroom Computer News, 1983
Reviews the educational value, design quality, and ease of use of "WINDOW," an educational "magazine" on a disk for the Apple II/IIe microcomputer. Indicates that the articles, software reviews, and other informative material are greatly enhanced by sound, graphics, and the chance to try out reviewed programs. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Educational Technology, Electronic Journals
Goodrum, Charles; Dalrymple, Helen – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1985
This article describes machines of the near future that will enable the book to be transmitted via computer. Discussion covers television screens, the use of liquid crystal displays, printers and paper, on-demand printing, computerization of basic reference books, use of optical discs for preservation, and creating one's own fictional characters.…
Descriptors: Books, Computer Oriented Programs, Display Systems, Futures (of Society)
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Carver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Oriented Programs, Conceptual Schemes, Information Processing
Cylke, Frank Kurt – 1999
The National Library Service (NLS) is developing a digital talking book and Braille book system for use by the blind and physically handicapped community. The following elements drive the design of the program: NLS offers a free library service; NLS is consumer-driven; NLS pays no royalties to copyright holders; the program is accessible to a wide…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Blindness, Braille, Computer Oriented Programs
1997
Five conference papers on use of technology in the second language classroom are presented, including: "Concept-Acquisition: Tapping the Internet for Ideas" (Jack Kimball), which offers suggestions for locating and using appropriate Internet materials; "Making Reading More Manageable--The Choice Offered by On-Line Newspapers and Magazines"…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Oriented Programs, Concept Formation, Educational Technology
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 1993
This reference circular lists devices designed to provide people who have visual or physical disabilities with access to printed information. The circular includes devices that hold a book or turn the pages of a book, that magnify print material either manually or electronically, and that convert print into braille or synthetic speech. Listings…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Braille, Closed Circuit Television
Wesson, Caren L., Ed.; Keefe, Margaret J., Ed. – 1995
This collection of papers considers how the school library media specialist serves special needs students and classroom teachers in multiple roles as teacher, information specialist, and instructional consultant or collaborator. Included are the following papers: "Teaching Library and Information Skills to Special Needs Students" (Caren…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Bibliotherapy, Computer Oriented Programs, Disabilities