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Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC) is an annual conference that brings researchers, policy makers, administrators, and educators together to present and discuss research and applications in the areas of preschool through elementary education.

I'll be presenting there along with Fran Simon and several others from this group!

I wish I could go. It looks like a great conference! Feel free to share all your resources when it's over!

I wrote this for Early Ed Watch yesterday as an explainer of RTL, but also to highlight the research that is underway. Thought that the members of this group might find it useful. There is a desperate need for good research (with sound methodology from independent evaluators), and RTL isn't enough. But at least it's something and we should be paying attention to what this program can tell us so far.

Panel discussion- many questions and concerns often raised by parents of young children and early educators about using tech with young children were discussed, as well as what the research shows, policy connections and resource recommendations.

Summarizes some large-scale research on digital divide and argues for adult-supported tech integration in ECE as a way to help bridge the divide.

Glad to have the research that examines the shared, collaborative model. I call it the Driver/Navigator Model.

Abstract of a research study on videos and DVDs marketed to parents of infants and toddlers.

Heard this can be useful.

The Early Childhood blog is concerned with policy issues and practices relevant to the field of early childhood studies. It is hoped that it will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners. Blogs include Ending a child poverty in a changing economy, Majority of chilldren living in poverty have at least one parent in work, Why is the dawn-to-dusk extended schools scheme failing the very families it is meant to help? These blogs are posted by different individuals, foundations and others who are interested in the field of early childhood education.

The Science of Early Child Development 2nd Edition (2008) has been thoroughly updated with new topics, readings and links. There are now over 150 video clips of researchers, experts, children and caregivers. The Science of Early Child Development, Intern

The National Association for the Education of Young Children Technology & Young Children Interest Forum has a website with information about their projects, and a link collection with information on "Tech with Children", "Tech Tools for Educators", "Tech at Home" and Research.

Interesting research about camera use to enhance preschool learning.

Learn more about this research -full report, executive summary and infographic available.

If you follow the link on this page to the article "Worlds Apart, One City, Two Libraries & Ten Years of Watching Inequality Grow" http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall2012/Neuman.pdf you will get a sense of what the authors learned during their 10 years of research and implications/recommendations related to closing the achievement gap/how it relates to technology use by children and families.

Certainly not research-based, but very relevant for those of us [myself included] who are always "on."

A forum that offers multiple links to why, why nots, hows, whats, when, etc to introducing young children to technology