Trends: Technology in the Early Childhood Centre's

One of the newly used trend in which I have noticed with in my Early Childhood Education profession (ECE) had been the using technology with the children from a very young age. In the past number of years there has been a push in technology teaching in young children, starting with Infants and continuing through school system. Young children have been introduced to computers at the age of 3-6 months with the educational toys that are available for parents and caregivers, such as the Baby Einstein serious of toys and video, X-Box, Wii, Personal Computers and I Pads.

My thoughts on this new trend of technology use for children is in the middle, I can see the positive aspects as well as some negative aspects, I believe it all depends upon the use of purpose of the technology being used, how it is used and why it is being used. I believe it is being used by parents or caregiver as a teaching tool, with them being involved with the learning is a positive component, as children will gain large amount of knowledge in a fun and educational way they will use for the rest of their years as life long learners. However, if parents and caregivers are using it as a “babysitter” it may not have as positive affect, as it will delay or discourage the child from having health social interactions with his or her peers