Facing the Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education is a new guide designed to help early years staff to make informed choices about whether, why, how and when to use screen technologies with young children.
The new resource, which was compiled by three US organisations, including Alliance for Childhood, says that there is an escalating use and overuse of screen technologies in the lives of even the very young, which has harmful effects on young children’s health, development and learning.
Excessive screen time is linked to childhood obesity, sleep disturbance, poor school performance and social problems, the guide explains. It reduces creative play, time with nature and face-to-face interactions with adults and other children.
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