Early literacy and digital technologies: friend or foe? is a tired dichotomy and Professor Jackie Marsh made it clear right in her opening presentation that we need to move beyond binary choices. Instead, as one teacher commented, technology is here, it won’t go away and we need to ‘get on with it like with rain on a rainy day.’
There was a general agreement that the question of whether technology is good or bad for young children is essentially beside the point, and that the real question is how we can effectively integrate digital with traditional resources. Here, the answer is not so clear-cut.
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