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Transforming Transitions To School: Using Funds Of Knowledge And Identity, Lennie Barblett, Fiona Boylan, Amelia Ruscoe
Transforming Transitions To School: Using Funds Of Knowledge And Identity, Lennie Barblett, Fiona Boylan, Amelia Ruscoe
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
This resource describes a project where ten Western Australian Independent Schools embraced a way of viewing children and their family’s transition to school.
Participating teachers came together as a community of practice and engaged in different ways of thinking and investigating accepted practice.Transition practices were affirmed or challenged as teachers were mentored through design-based thinking. Transition ideas were explored focussing on children’s funds of knowledge and identity. This resource outlines why transitions are important, considers transitions through a funds of knowledge and identity lens, and describes each school’s journey as they re-imagined transitions in this project. Finally, the ideas and …
Digital Literacy: A Review Of Literature, Lennie Barblett, Raisa Akifeva, Leanne Lavina, Fiona Boylan
Digital Literacy: A Review Of Literature, Lennie Barblett, Raisa Akifeva, Leanne Lavina, Fiona Boylan
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
This report describes the main themes of collected literature to examine and explain the information in relation to making best practice recommendations for using digital technologies with children, and their families using Better Beginnings programs. These themes include:
- definitions of literacy,
- digital literacy in the context of childhood and children’s rights,
- dimensions of children’s digital literacy,
- digital technology, children and families,
- digital divide and diversity,
- eSafety, privacy, protection,
- children’s digital literacy learning, and
- librarian staff as digital literacy mentors and advocates.
The early childhood phase of childhood (particularly birth to age five) is one of the most under - researched …