‘We’re going to be the persons that tell stories’: An exploration of how digital technologies can enhance children’s learning in the Early Years

Getting the balance right: Using technologies in Early Years This case study is about how five nursery schools in our teaching school alliance worked together to explore which technologies might complement and enhance teaching and learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). We drew on the work of Professor John Siraj-Blatchford (2015), who proposed that effective use of ICT in the Early Years should: ensure an educational purpose encourage collaboration integrate with other aspects of curriculum ensure the child is in control. What we did: Developing case studies with a range of technologies Inspired by Debi Keyte-Hartland’s blog (2014) about the potential of using technologies in the context of a wider ‘pedagogical understanding of such concepts as creativity, innovation, enterprise, critical thinking, (and) imagination’, we compiled a long list of accessible technologies suitable for use in the EYFS (Gunning and ELEYSP, 2019) and divided it into cat