ABSTRACT
The vignettes are used to highlight what the authors present as the remarkable capacity of modern day children to use technologies. Ten to 20 years ago, research about young children's play and learning with technologies was a niche area of investigation. Arriving with a suddenness that made the iPad seem as if it had arrived from nowhere, the early childhood sector was ill-prepared to greet this new technology in the lives of young children. The people may well favour the power of digital technologies to extend children's horizons and communicative power and value the motivating influence of on-screen activities and the opportunities which they offer for personalised leisure and sharing of digital media content. Young children playing and learning in a digital age is not about including technologies in the early years because children are now living in a technological world. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
