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.