The Case of the iPad

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Case of the iPad

   • Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant

   Pages 1-14

3. The Fluid Materiality of Tablets: Examining ‘the iPad Multiple’ in a Primary Classroom

   • Cathy Burnett

   Pages 15-29

4. Russian Dolls and Three Forms of Capital: Ecological and Sociological Perspectives on Parents’ Engagement with Young Children’s Tablet Use

   • Jackie Marsh

   Pages 31-47

5. Chasing Literacies Across Action Texts and Augmented Realities: E-Books, Animated Apps, and Pokémon Go

   • Karen Wohlwend

   Pages 49-66

6. Multimodal Layering: Students Learning with iPads in Primary School Classrooms

   • Alyson Simpson, Maureen Walsh

   Pages 67-85

7. The New Digital Divide: Digital Technology Policies and Provision in Canada and Australia

   • Joanne O’Mara, Linda Laidlaw, Jill Blackmore

   Pages 87-104

8. Slate-Enabled Literacy Practices in a Futureschool@Singapore Classroom

   • Siew Hiang Sally Ng

   Pages 105-124

9. Apps and Autodidacts: Wayfaring and Emplaced Thinking on iPads

   • Jennifer Rowsell, Fernando Maues, Sharon Moukperian, Chrystal Colquhoun

   Pages 125-142

10. Game 2 Engage: Using iPads to Mediate and Develop Social Relationships in College Learning

    • Jamie Caine, Julia Davies, Bronwyn T. Williams

    Pages 143-158

11. The Affordances of Touchscreen Tablets and Digital Cameras as Tools for Young Children’s Multimodal, Multilingual Composing

    • Deborah Wells Rowe, Mary E. Miller

    Pages 159-178

12. Personalized Story-Making on the iPad: Opportunities for Developing the Self and Building Closeness with Others

    • Natalia Kucirkova, Mona Sakr

    Pages 179-193

13. Children’s Engagement with iPads in Early Years Classrooms: Exploring Peer Cultures and Transforming Practices

    • Karen Daniels

    Pages 195-210

14. Collaborative and Dialogic Meaning-Making: How Children Engage and Immerse in the Storyworld of a Mobile Game

    • Fiona Maine

    Pages 211-225

15. Relational Methodologies for Mobile Literacies: Intra-action, Rhythm, and Atmosphere

    • Ty Hollett, Christian Ehret

    Pages 227-244

16. Hands, Fingers and iPads

    • Guy Merchant

    Pages 245-256

17. Mobile Literacies: Moving from the Word to the World

    • Alyson Simpson, Maureen Walsh

    Pages 257-265

18. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271

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This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings. Approaching mobility from diverse theoretical perspectives, the book makes a significant contribution to how mobile literacies, and tablets in particular, are being conceptualised in literacy research. The book focuses on tablets, and particularly the iPad, as a prime example of mobile literacies, setting this within the broader context of literacy and mobility.

The book provides inspiration and direction for future research in mobile literacies, based upon 16 chapters that investigate the relationship between tablets and literacy in diverse ways. Together they address the complex and multiple forces associated with the distribution of the technologies themselves and the texts they mediate, and consider how apps, adultsand children work together as iPads enter the mesh of practices and material arrangements that constitute the institutional setting.

• Mobile Literacies
• technology Literacies
• Literacy Studies
• Technology in Education
• Mobile education
• Education and iPads
• Materiality in Education
• Meaning-making in edcuation
• learning and instruction

• Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant

• The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Alyson Simpson

• The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia and The Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, Australia

  Maureen Walsh

Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, where she leads the Language and Literacy in Education Research Group. Her current research interests focus on the relationships between technology, literacy and education. Co-edited collections include New Literacies around the Globe: policy and pedagogy and Literacy, Media, Technology: past, present and future. She is also Vice President of the United Kingdom Literacy Association.


Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, and is a founding editor of Early Childhood Literacy. He specialises in research into digital literacy and the interrelations between children and young people, and new technologies of communication. He co-authored Web 2.0 for Schools with Julia Davies, and co-edited collections including Virtual Literacies, New Literacies across the Globe, and Literacy, Media, Technology: past, present, future. 

Alyson Simpson is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’s Sydney School of Education and Social Work. Her research interests include the role of children’s literature in education, dialogic learning and the impact of digital technology on reading practices and pedagogy. She has served as a consultant to numerous state and national education bodies, and is the author of The use of children’s literature in teaching: A study of politics and professionalism within teacher education.  



Maureen Walsh is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (ACU) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney’s Sydney School of  Education and Social Work. She has published in the areas of TESOL, children’s literature, reading education and visual literacy. Her research has focused on the impact of digital communication on literacy education and she has developed a theoretical framework based on multimodal literacy in several publications.

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