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Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education
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Exploring Young Children’S Digital Composing Practices, Megan D. Cross
Exploring Young Children’S Digital Composing Practices, Megan D. Cross
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study explored the many layers involved in young children’s meaning-making as they digitally compose. Utilizing a multimodal, social semiotics theoretical framework to analyze children’s digital compositions using a composing app, this study was designed around one research question: What is the nature of three and four-year-old children’s multimodal meaning making while using a composing app? The qualitative study involved four focal participants from a three- and four-year-old classroom, who attended an inquiry-based lab school in the southeastern United States.
The data were collected over a period of eight weeks, where the children were invited to tell their stories using …