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.
Family and community engagement in early childhood education and care in the digital age
This chapter discusses the use of digital technology to engage families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. The use of digital technology is widespread in ECEC settings and family contexts. The chapter discusses how digital technology can change the frequency and outreach of interactions between ECEC staff and family members, while shedding light on the challenges of doing so, to promote high-quality family and community engagement. The chapter offers some suggestions on how policy can help better prepare ECEC settings and staff to balance digital and face-to-face engagement of families for the benefit of the entire ECEC community.
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