Growing Up with Technology explores the role of technology in the everyday lives of three- and four-year-old children, presenting the implications for the children's continuing learning and development.

Children are growing up in a world where the internet, mobile phones and other forms of digital interaction are features of daily life. The authors have carefully observed children's experiences at home and analysed the perspectives of parents, practitioners and the children themselves. This has enabled them to provide a nuanced account of the different ways in...

Exploring the ways in which new technologies are shaping the lives and experiences of young children, this book challenges expectations and assertions about digital childhoods and provides research evidence and theoretical frameworks from which to make sense of children's learning, to understand family practices with new technologies at home and practices with digital resources in early years educational settings. It will contribute to the development of practice, extend theoretical perspectives to encompass the impact of living in a digital age and consider the ways in which values and...

Exploring the ways in which new technologies are shaping the lives and experiences of young children, this book challenges expectations and assertions about digital childhoods and provides research evidence and theoretical frameworks from which to make sense of children's learning, to understand family practices with new technologies at home and practices with digital resources in early years educational settings. It will contribute to the development of practice, extend theoretical perspectives to encompass the impact of living in a digital age and consider the ways in which values and...