the most polarised around, as our head-to-head between Professor Annette
Karmiloff-Smith and Dr Richard House shows (see pages 14-16).
This is a very tricky issue for early years practitioners. There are many scary stories in the national media about the detrimental effects on children of watching TV and using computers and tablets, and we all know how addicted we can become to our smartphones and tablets.
At the same time, there are many exciting possibilities for learning and development if new technologies are used in the right ways. And children are certainly exposed to touchscreens and so on in their home lives - and everwhere they go.
No-one would want to see children's exposure to the natural world and face-to-face encounters diminished by too much use of ICT.
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