Perspectives on early years and digital technologies
November 2008
Sarah Eagle, Andrew Manches, Claire O’Malley, Lydia Plowman, Rosamund Sutherland
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Foreword
This publication is a first for us as it brings together early work from Futurelab’s PhD studentship network. This network was set up to bring together PhD students and their supervisors from Bristol, Nottingham and Stirling universities to explore how these different groups might, collaboratively, explore challenging questions around the role of digital technologies in young children’s learning.
The three papers in this publication represent our progress in this ongoing conversation – they present the early arguments developing within the two PhD projects, but also the wider issues that these projects are raising for the design of digital technologies for this often-overlooked age group. More than this, however, the papers in this publication explore how we can use existing research traditions to create challenging new directions for design and development in this field.
In publishing these papers, we begin the process of opening out this conversation – we’re looking forward to hearing what you have to say about these ideas.