Nursery World - EYFS Best Practice: All about... ICT

With digital technology now an integral part of children's everyday
lives, settings must consider how they can best use it to support
learning. Dr Christine Stephen draws on 15 years of research to look at
how children's preferences vary and what support educators can offer

Today's children are growing up in a century where digital technologies are commonplace for leisure, domestic life, work and study. Threeto five-year-olds are familiar with interactive television, DVDs, and using mobile phones to send messages, talk, play games and take photographs. They are likely to have played games on laptops or tablets, watched parents shop online and - although they are not able to read the results - pre-schoolers will suggest that parents or siblings 'Google it' when answers to their questions are not forthcoming. In shops and on outings, children watch their family using interactive devices to pay for purchases, obtain cash or services and get information.

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