Nursery World - Learning & Development: Digital Technology

In an Australian case study, tablet technology has enabled children’s playful explorations as part of ‘multimodal learning’. Nicola Yelland and Caja Gilbert examine the implications

In Australia, the federal government took a major initiative in early childhood education with its release in 2009 of the Early Years Learning Framework. The document provided a vision for children’s learning that considered both pedagogies and learning outcomes, and this was the first time that this had been formulated at the national level. The title and theme of the framework was Belonging, Being & Becoming, with the goal that all children should be able to ‘experience learning that is engaging and that will build success for life’.

Five learning outcomes were identified. They were that children should:

The role of information and communication technology (ICT) was simply stated under the fifth learning outcome, which said that children would use ICT to ‘access information, investigate their ideas and represent their thinking’.

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