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Experiencing Digital Literature Part B: Critical Reflection of Digital Literature Experiences

“We find these digital picture books to be the most exciting innovation in literature for children in a long time—and also the scariest” (Yokota, & Teale, 2014, p. 577). What makes a good digital text, what counts as one, and what purpose do digital texts serve? During this assignment my idea of what counts as digital literature has expanded drastically. A main point I found was that there are blurred lines between defining modes of digital literature. Biancarosa and Griffiths (2012) confirm that terms such as e-book and e-reader are not always used, and that Read More …

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Digital Literature Review 1: E-book

Review 1: E-book from Epic! Title: Unicorn (and Horse) by David W. Miles, illustrated by Hollie Mengert Miles, D. (2018). Unicorn (and Horse). Familius LLC. https://www.getepic.com/app/read/49864 For the purpose of this review, an e-book was chosen from the website called Epic! Epic is a digital library of e-books, read-to-me books, audiobooks and videos aimed at an audience of children in grades K-5. While the platform has all of these e-literacy options a standard e-book version or “linear e-narrative”, as proposed by Unsworth (2006, p. 69), was chosen to review. This book was chosen to review Read More …