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Young Children in a Digital Age: Supporting learning and development with technology in early years book cover

1st Edition

Young Children in a Digital Age Supporting learning and development with technology in early years

Edited By Lorraine Kaye Copyright 2017
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge
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Young children are born into a digital world and it is not unusual to see preschool children intuitively swiping screens and confidently pressing buttons. There is much debate about the impact of the increased access to technology on young children’s health and wellbeing with claims that it damages their social skills and emotional development. This timely new textbook examines how developments... Read more

1 Young children in a digital age (Lorraine Kaye)  2 Why are young children so good with technology? (Nicky Spawls and Dilys Wilson)  3 The power of Digital Symbolic representation (Jacqueline Harding)  4 State of play: Technology in the early years curriculum (Rachel Ager)  5 Supporting children’s technological development: the role of the practitioner (Rachel Ager)  6 Play in a digital age (Shirley Allen)  7 Creativity in a Digital Age (Beverley Barnaby and Victoria Burghardt)  8 Language Acquisition in a digital age (Louise Dryden)  9 Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Technology (Angela Scollen and Beth Gallagher)

Biography

Lorraine Kaye teaches students on undergraduate and postgraduate primary and early years teacher training programmes and is currently the subject leader for computing in primary and early years education at Middlesex University, UK.

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