MSCA ITN Early Language Development in the Digital Age (e-LADDA) - Events
Events
18-21 October 2023, University of Porto: e-LADDA closing conference “Advances in the Study of Language Development and Literacy Learning in the Digital Age”.
Open seminar – Digital Media in Preschool Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks
November 2022
Parents’ newsfeed nowadays is continually filled with news stories or commentaries on how digital media are making kids asocial, violent, or even depressed. This leaves many educators and parents caught between the wish to ban technologies from a child´s daily routine and the ubiquity of digital devices in everyday life. The mismatch between what research suggests and what parents are experiencing in their day-to-day is then often accompanied by feelings of confusion, worry, and frustration.
Meanwhile, research findings on children's media consumption are not always straightforward and to reach actionable advice and guidelines different sources of evidence have to be examined carefully and critically. We reviewed the literature critically and the outcome of this process is a set of key findings which we aim to share in the form of an interactive workshop with educators, parents and/or professionals from the field.
To this end, we invite educators and parents to reflect on the opportunities, challenges and risks of digital media use in preschool education. During the workshop, we will present interactive activities designed to learn and discuss guidelines and advice regarding children's media consumption.
The Workshop is hosted by the EU Horison2020 funded project Early Language Development in the Digital Age (e-LADDA) and Early Stage Researchers Martina de Eccher, Aisha F. Tüchler, Fatih Sivridag & Karla Zavala Barreda.
When: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 – 17.00-19.00
Place: NTNU, Dragvoll Campus, D11
Contact: Prof. Mila Vulchanova, NTNU
Educational design in digital technology
September 2022
The NTNU team hosted the e-LADDA Workshop on Educational Design in Digital Technology on August 31-September 2, 2022 in Trondheim, Norway.
e-LADDA CON 2021
September 2021
e-LADDA presents the network’s first (online) conference: e-LADDA CON 2021, hosted by the Universidad de Sevilla, under the title Understanding Language and Literacy Development in the Digital Age 28th and 29th September, 2021.
e-LADDA CON 2021 aims to bring together researchers interested in the effects of digital tools, such as tablets, mobile phones, or social robots, on language development and language outcomes from a broad perspective, with research on both typical and atypical development, and using behavioural, computational and electrophysiological measures.
Kick-off Conference
November 2019
Location: Dokkhuset, Trondheim, Norway.
Programme
09.00 – 09.15 Opening – Bjarne Foss, Pro-Rector for Research, NTNU
09.15 – 10.00 Mila Vulchanova (NTNU, Norway) - Digital environments and young children
10.00 – 10.30 Nivedita Mani (University of Göttingen, Germany) – Early language development
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 Angelo Cangelosi (University of Manchester, UK) – Robotics and AI for Education
11.30 – 12.00 Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia, UK) – Embodied and non-embodied language learning
12.00 – 12.30 Gabriel Skantze (FURHAT Robotics/KTH – Stockholm) – Furhat - a social robotics platform for face-to-face interaction
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 13.50 David Saldaña (University of Seville, Spain) – Reading in atypical development: the cases of deafness and autism?
13.50 – 14.20 Kate Cain (University of Lancaster, UK) – The language bases of reading comprehension in the digital age: what do we know and what do we need to know?
14.20 – 14.40 Rui Alves (University of Porto, Portugal) – From bursts of written language production to the European Literacy Network
14.40 – 15.00 Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) – Platforms, Algorithms, Data
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 15.50 Jurgis Skilters (University of Latvia) – Spatial cognition, geometry, topology, and language
15.50 – 16.10 Louise Pasterfield, Founder and Managing Director & Kate Pasterfield, VP of Innovations (Sponge UK) – Software solutions for digital learning
16.10 – 16.40 Michael Spranger (SONY) – TBA
16.40 – 17.00 Melissa Allen (University of Bristol, UK) – Learning from iPads by children with ASD