2. Technology Solutions for Early Childhood: Shaping the Future
What Do We Know and What Do We Want to Know: Screen Time and Accessibility in Early Childhood
Technology Solutions for Early Childhood: Shaping the Future
November 29, 2016
Tamara Kaldor, MS,
Assistant Director, TEC Center
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3. What do we know?
1 min for intro

4. April 3, 2010 #GAMECHANGER 1 min
I don’t need research to tell me that in 2010 everything changed for inclusion, accessibility and technology.

5. at 6 mins
Video length: 3:40
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6. NAEYC and Fred Rogers Joint Position Statement
Effective uses of technology and media are active, hands-on, engaging, and empowering; give the child control; provide adaptive scaffolds to ease the accomplishment of tasks; and are used as one of many options to support children’s learning.
1 min, but at about 7 min?

7. New data!
2 min-at about 8-9 min

8. New Guidance-AAP
• More descriptive than prescriptive –Parent empowerment, reality-based
• Joint engagement and co-viewing – Using media together improves learning
• Video chat – Beneficial screen time,
relationship-based, interactional quality
and socially contingent
• Parent media use and role as media mentors –
Most influential media role model
2 min -at about 10 min in

9. New Guidance-AAP
– No screens under for children under 18 months – Exception is video chat
– 18 months to 2 years – OK to introduce high-quality media if you watch with them
– 2 to 5 years – 1 hour daily limit, high quality, watch together
– No media use one hour before bedtime
Concern about displacement – 12 hours of waking time -1 hour of media use + time for family, reading together, social time with friends, outdoor plays, imaginative play, time for boredom
2-3 min-explain Lauren Myers research
at about min in

10. New Guidance – DOE/HHS Four guiding principles
Technology, when used properly, can be a tool for learning
• Technology should be used to increase access to
learning opportunities for all children
• Technology may be used to strengthen relationships
among parents, families, early educators, young children
• Technology is more effective for learning when adults and
peers interact or co-view with young children
1 min- at about 14 min in

11. Hot Topics -Research VR and AR for social stories
Executive functioning
Assessment
Ebooks
Videogames
LAB time!
2 min- at about 16 min in

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13. From 757 entries of research, tips, and policy from June 2011-present
Only .02% of entries coded were longitudinal in nature, 63% were not funded
8-10% of studies coded addressed populations that were identified as either SPED, ELL or Low-SES
From 757 entries of research, tips, and policy from June 2011-present

14. What about when the tech is not a screen?
WAIT!
What about play?
What about when the tech is not a screen?
30 sec

15. Video Lenth: 2:43
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16. Digital Media can...
Digital media can be used not only to provide families with information, but also, to increase their understanding to use that information effectively and creatively. By doing so, families take on the roles as lifelong educators and learners: they become powerful teachers for their own children who also gain new skills themselves.
Lopez, Caspe & Weiss, 2016

17. How can tech support
whole families, neurodiversity and inclusion to empower children, parents and educators?
How do we move technology in early childhood research $$$ and interest towards looking at supporting
whole families, inclusion
and neurodiversity?

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Photos courtesy of Google Image Search, Fred Rogers Center, Fred Rogers Company, Erikson Institute, NAEYC, Early Learning Community at Pacific University, Burley Elementary School, Ravenswood Elementary School, University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, Cassandra Mattoon and Chris Crowell

19. “Assistive and Instructional Technology Supporting Learners with Disabilities”
The Center on Technology and Disability is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) under award #H327F – 13A.