ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the use of digital technologies in children's story-making activities in an early childhood setting. The study scrutinises the interactions of two six-year-old girls as they create a story together using a digital story-making application based on images. Taking the children's collaborative activities as the starting point, the study analyses the nature of the emerging activity when six-year-olds are instructed to narrate with digital technologies. It then focuses on what structuring resources are utilised by the children. The findings of this study imply that the instructional story-making activity is complex, with multiple things taking place at the same time that the girls need to relate to. The story-making task offers the children opportunities for reasoning and negotiating meaning mediated by the images provided by the software application. Consequently, collaborative technology-mediated story-making activities provide possibilities for communicative interactions, in terms of opening up for exploration of language and development of higher-order thinking.
