Nursery World - Interview - Natalia Kucirkova

Graduate student at the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology, Open University.

Tell us a bit about the background to your research and the development of the ‘Our Story’ app?

My research interest lies in exploring how personalization influences the process of story-sharing and story-creation. I’m especially interested in innovative ways of promoting early parent-child shared book reading and the impact of self-made books on children’s language and literacy skills.

The app Our Story builds on my interest in personalizing and sharing stories via new platforms in that it allows children to create their own, personal stories on a tablet or smartphone, and share them with their parents or friends. The app enables children as young as two years to make their own audio-visual digital story books on an iPhone or iPad. Digital literacy is what today’s children are born into and I find it important to understand the potential of new platforms for personalizing and sharing children’s stories.

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