Publications

Secret Lives of Children in the Digital Age Book cover
Blue tinted image of child wearing VR goggles
Laidlaw, L., O’Mara, J. & Wong, S. (2021). Secret lives of children in the digital age: Disruptive devices and resourceful learners. Myers Education Press.

Note: A 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Winner

 

Laidlaw, L., Wong, S. & O’Mara, J. (2021) (Eds.). Reimagining literacy: Being literate in the pandemic era. Language and Literacy, 23(2). https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/issue/view/1953

 

Wong, S., Laidlaw, L., & Liu, Y. (2021). Reimagining professional development for digital literacies: Old, new and pandemic. Language and Literacy, 32(2). https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/issue/view/1953

 

Laidlaw, L., O’Mara, J. & Wong, S. (2019). This is your brain on devices: Media accounts young children’s use of digital technologies and implications for parents and teachers. Contemporary Issues of Early Childhood Journal. Available from   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1463949119867400

 

Laidlaw, L., O’Mara, J., & Wong, S. (2019). Researching in the iWorld: From home to beyond. In N. Kucirkova, J. Rowsell, and G. Falloon (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood. Abingdon, OX: Routledge.

 

O’Mara, J., Laidlaw, L., & Wong, S. (2020). Children as architects of their digital worlds. In L. Green, D. Holloway, L. Haddon, K. Stevenson, and T. Leaver (Eds.), The Routledge Companion of Children and Digital Media. London: Taylor & Francis.