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Children love switches and buttons and can usually pick up how to work a video recorder at home pretty quickly. In the nursery, the purpose of introducing children to a wide range of mechanical toys, tape recorders and computers is to give them the basis of a fearless technological literacy that will help them as adults in a fast developing world Changing world The importance of letting nursery children use ICT By John-Siraj Blatchford, senior education lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge, and co-author of Supporting Science, Design and Technology in the Early Years (Open University Press, 1999)

The importance of letting nursery children use ICT By John-Siraj Blatchford, senior education lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge, and co-author of Supporting Science, Design and Technology in the Early Years (Open University Press, 1999)

Mean machines

The low-down on buying ICT

Information from computing writer, George Cole, and the Bolton LEA Curriculum ICT Centre

Switch on to play

Activities using ICT in each of the Foundation Stage areas of learning By Colin MacFarlane and Sarah Armstrong, who work for the Bolton LEA Curriculum ICT Centre and are authors of the booklet ICT for the Foundation Stage

Chill out

Winter-themed activities using ICT

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