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Use NAEYC's resources to guide you as you make choices about how to use technology and media with young children.
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Teaching Young Children
December 1, 2017

Including All Children in Making and Tinkering!

With the open-ended experiences of making and tinkering, you can give a child like this access to a whole world of learning and expression.

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Karen Nemeth, Pamela Brillante
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A young child builds a ramp with blocks
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Young Children
November 1, 2017

More Than a Foundation: Young Children Are Capable STEM Learners أكثر من مجرد أساس: الأطفال الصغار دارسون متفوقون للعلوم والتكنولوجيا والهندسة والرياضيات

يعتقد الكثير من الناس أن التعلم "الحقيقي" للعلوم والتكنولوجيا والهندسة والرياضيات لا يحدث حتى يكبر الأطفال

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Elisabeth McClure
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Young Children
November 1, 2017

Creativity Throughout the Day

Fostering creativity is one of the most rewarding—and challenging—goals that teachers of young children can set for themselves

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Lisa Hansel
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Young Children
November 1, 2017

"Look What I Made!" Open-Ended Apps that Spark Creativity

Whatever the medium—wooden blocks, paint on paper, multicolored tape on recycled materials, or digital images on screens—it’s important for young children to experiment and create in ways that are meaningful to them.

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Holly Carrell Moore
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Young Children
November 1, 2017

More Than a Foundation: Young Children Are Capable STEM Learners

The research is clear: when we say children are “born scientists,” we’re not just being cute; they really are active scientists, right now, systematically and intentionally exploring their environments, even from the day they are born.

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Elisabeth McClure
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Young girl uses blocks to bulild
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Young Children
November 1, 2017

Más que una base: Los niños pequeños son alumnos con capacidades STEM

The research is clear: when we say children are “born scientists,” we’re not just being cute; they really are active scientists, right now, systematically and intentionally exploring their environments, even from the day they are born.

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Elisabeth McClure
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Young Children
Vol. 72, No. 5
November 1, 2017

November 2017

Creativity Throughout the Day
YC November 2017 issue
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Blog
February 27, 2017

The Role Of Relationships in Children's Use Of Technology

In this current conversation about media, technology and children’s learning, the focus has been on the importance of human interaction in relation to children’s media and technology use.

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Jeremy Boyle
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