Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Lecturer in Childhood, Youth and Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Garry Falloon is Associate Professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Part 1: Understanding the learning potential of children's apps

1. Apps and learning: A sociocultural perspective

Roger Säljö

2. Learning from apps in the home: Parents and play

Jenny Radesky & Barry Zuckerman

3. First principles of teaching reading with e-Books in the primary grades

Kathleeen Roskos

Part 2: Key app challenges

4. Reading between the lines: Market scan and analysis of language and literacy-focused children's apps

Sarah E. Vaala

5 Teaching and learning with tablets: A case study of 21st century skills and new learning

Nicola Yelland

6. App Maps: Evaluating children's iPad software for 21st century literacy learning

Karen E. Wohlwend and Jennifer Rowsell

7. Touch design and narrative interpretation: A social semiotic approach to picture book apps

Sumin Zhao and Len Unsworth

8. Put their learning in their hands: Apps supporting self-regulated learning

Julie Mueller, Karin Archer, Eileen Wood and Domenica De Pasquale

Part 3: Empirical evidence

9. The use of tablet technology to support development of early mathematical skills: A cross-cultural comparison

Nicola J Pitchford and Laura Outhwaite

10. "Makes learning easier - they're active": Using apps in early years mathematics

Nigel Calder

11. Adults and children make meaning together with E-books

Kathrin Rees, Susan Rvachew and Aparna Nadig

12. Literacy teaching with tablets in bilingual primary classrooms: The Malta Tablet study

Charles l. Mifsud and Louisa Grech

13. iPad-supported learning and development for a child with mild cerebral palsy

Elaine Khoo

14. Enhancing science learning with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in a primary school in Hong Kong

Yanjie Song and Wai Ying Ku

15. Bringing Pudsey to Life: Young children's use of augmented reality apps

Jackie Marsh and Dylan Yamada-Rice

16. Young Children in an Education Context: Apps, cultural agency and expanding communicative repertoires

Karen Daniels

Part 4: Future Avenues

17. Digital play: Conceptualising the relation between real, augmented and virtual realities

Marilyn Fleer

18. iPads, apps and student thinking skill development

Garry Falloon

19. Trans- and intra- apps: innovating the app market and use

Natalia Kucirkova

20. A model of mobile knowledge building with apps for pre-service teacher education

Kevin Burden