Empowering Young Children in the Digital Age
Digitalisation is transforming education as well as social and economic life, with implications for childhood. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), with its immense potential to shape children’s early development, learning and well-being, can play a major role in addressing the opportunities and risks that digitalisation brings to young children. Digitalisation also creates new ways of working that have the potential to lead to quality improvement in the ECEC sector. This report provides a 360-degree view of the challenges of digitalisation in ECEC and possible policy responses.
Data and monitoring in early childhood education and care in the digital age
Digitalisation brings new opportunities and demands for quality monitoring in early childhood education and care (ECEC). This chapter discusses challenges for establishing robust data management and quality monitoring systems at a time when data are increasingly available and digital technologies increasingly present in ECEC settings. Building on responses to the ECEC in a Digital World policy survey (2022), the chapter examines the availability of ECEC data systems across countries and their most prevailing goals and features. It then looks at the inclusion of digitalisation-related elements in ECEC quality monitoring frameworks.
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