Early Childhood Education and its Impact on Technology

Early Childhood Education and its Impact on Technology

Early childhood education is a time where young children develop important learning skills. Young children, aged birth through approximately 8 years (young children, 2004) interact with one another to develop social and even motor skills that they will carry with them later in life. Development in young children involves the early years in a child's physical, social-emotional, language, and cognitive development (Baur, 1998).

Developmental aspects can be assessed by technology. Technology is growing everyday in our society, it is becoming a big factor in the use of early childhood education.

Computer use is most popular in the classroom because it is easy for children to learn and develop learning (Clements, 1992). Computers increase social interaction and help children explore writing. Until age eight, activity of young children is symbolic since they communicate with gestures, language, and play (Shade & Caruso, 1994). The computer; therefore, provides a symbolic tool for children to use in school, which is very beneficial. As technology is a useful aspect in early childhood education, there are also negative effects. Overall, the use of technology in early childhood education has positive effects on children because it plays a major role in the learning development of young students from pre-school through out elementary school.

Learning Development

Learning development during early childhood is a very important part of learning. Activities and experiences that help the developmental changes in children through these years form birth to elementary school, around grades kindergarten to third grade, are aspects of early childhood education (early chil...

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...that are less fortunate and can not afford technology equipment. It explains how computers in poor communities, such as cities, use computers in a negative way for drill practice on standardized tests.

Clements, D.H. (1992). Technology as a learning tool. In The encyclopedia of early childhood education. (Vol. 504, pp. 369-371). New York: Garland Publishing

The entry in the encyclopedia mentions why computers are a cooperative tool for children to use in the curriculum of teaching.

Early childhood education (2004). Ebsco Publishing, Retrieved November 23, 2004 from ERIC database.

The database gives a detailed definition of early childhood education in its thesaurus.

Young children (2004). Ebsco Publishing, Retrieved November 23, 2004 from ERIC database.

The database gives a detailed definition of young children in its thesaurus.