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.
The early childhood education and care workforce in the digital age
In the context of the evolving demands digitalisation places on early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff, this chapter explores how countries are preparing and supporting ECEC staff to meet these demands, as well as how technology can be integrated into ECEC staff practices more generally (e.g. for administrative tasks, work with parents). The chapter proposes a model for considering ECEC staff competencies around digitalisation, with foundational skills and knowledge for the entire workforce at the base, enhanced abilities for some groups of staff, and finally, the possibility for a group of ECEC digital specialists. The chapter ends with policy pointers.
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