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Jennings, Nancy A.; Hooker, Steven D.; Linebarger, Deborah L. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Research on children's television suggests that preschool programs can facilitate literacy and language development. In 1998 Whitehurst and Lonigan described two interdependent sets of skills involved in literacy acquisition: "outside-in" or oral language skills and "inside-out" or code-related skills. Outside-in skills support children's…
Descriptors: Written Language, Production Techniques, Oral Language, Preschool Children
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Rivera, Hector; Galarza, Sheri Lyn; Entz, Susan; Tharp, Roland G. – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
Technology can facilitate a pedagogy-based on neo-Vygotskian sociocultural theory, and on developmentally appropriate instruction. This article reviews the basic principles of such a pedagogy, and then presents a detailed case study of one day's instruction in a preschool classroom, that is richly infused with a system employing digital…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Social Theories