Digital expressive media for supporting early literacy through child-driven, scaffolded play

Digital technology holds many promises for supporting early literacy development. To stimulate both l earning achievement and children's interest in literacy, i t i s beneficial f or a l earning activity to be playful, support children's agency and self-efficacy, and meaningfully connect to their life. However, nearly all current literacy technology, designed within the instructionist paradigm, lack these qualities. This work attempts to address this issue by exploring the design space of technology that is: ( 1) "child-driven" -- allowing initiative and ideas to come from the learner; ( 2) expressive -- fostering the creation of messages or artistic artifacts; and ( 3) scaffolded --

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Sysoev, Ivan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Deb Roy.

• Program in Media Arts and Sciences

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127500

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127500