Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children: An international perspective

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Susanne Garvis Narelle Lemon (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children

An international perspective

Susanne Garvis, Narelle Lemon (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

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Routledge
24 August 2015

Pre-school & kindergarten; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Technology

Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children explores the possibilities digital technology brings to enhance the learning and developmental needs of young children.

Globally, the role of technology is an increasingly important part of everyday life. In many early childhood education frameworks and curricula around the world, there is an expectation that children are developing skills to become effective communicators and are using digital technology to investigate their ideas and represent their thinking. This means that educators throughout the world are expected to actively enhance children’s learning in ways that provide learning experiences with technology that are balanced and purposeful to allow the transformation of traditional authentic learning experiences. Digital technologies can be used to explore, manipulate, discover, play and interact with real and imaginative worlds to allow active meaning making.

With a wide range of expert contributors, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the current research on technology and young children and the importance of engagement for learning. This approach encourages the reader to rethink the possibilities and potential of digital technologies for learning in the early years, especially in the years before formal schooling when children might be attending early childhood settings.

This will be a valuable reference for anyone looking for an international perspective on digital technology and young children, and is particularly aimed at current and future teachers.

Edited by: Susanne Garvis, Narelle Lemon (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781138804401
ISBN 10: 1138804401
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 24 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susanne Garvis is a Professor of child and youth studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Narelle Lemon is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.