Susan McKenney|Joke Voogt
Designing technology for emergent literacy: The PictoPal initiative
University of Twente|University of Twente
pictopal name technologysupported intervention designed foster development emergent reading writing skills four five year old children following theoretical underpinnings brief description pictopal article describes children worked technology intervention elicited engagement literacy concepts computer effects early literacy learning observation results indicate children able work independently program instruction sessions observation data yield insight nature adult guidance way results computer activities implemented offcomputer classroom activities well areas could improved comparison four prepost test experiments used assess learning effects suggest oncomputer activities pictopal yield statistically significant learning effect integration offcomputer activities present