Are we spinning or is it the board? - Young children’s interaction with an interactive whiteboard in preschool

Abstract

The present study explores young children’s interaction with an interactive whiteboard (IWB) in a Swedish preschool. Analyses of video recordings show how the children, through embodied and multi-directional interactions, interpret, explore and construct signs on the IWB. By relating children’s careful explorations to meaning-making and sign-making, interactions at the IWB can be looked upon as part of children’s initial literate explorations in multimodal text productions.

Keywords

• Preschool
• Interaction
• Information technology
• Interactive board
• Meaning-making
• Early literacy