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.
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The early years of a child’s life are a period of rich brain development. It is when they rapidly develop cognitive, social and emotional skills that are fundamental to their later achievements as adults. In an evolving world of smartphones, computers and other digital technologies, it is therefore vital for positive early experiences with digital tech.
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