Fantastic, creative, evidence based advice for parents of under5s who need advice on how to think about #screentime from the DigiLitEY and FrameWorks Institute teams

The initial list of apps that have been given a 'quality mark' by our Department for Education Expert Panel can be found on this site: hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk. Additional guidance for parents on choosing and using apps can be found here: gov.uk/government/pub…

Excited to receive today my own copy of the MakEY book I edited with Alicia Blum-Ross and Kristiina Kumpulainen - table of contents can be found here: crcpress.com/Enhancing-Digi…

Our expert panel have approved six educational apps, designed to help boost a child's learning at home featuring: 📚interactive story books ✍️handwriting exercises using AI 🎮educational video games 👉gov.uk/government/new…

It was a pleasure to chair the Early Years Apps panel for Department for Education and work with the brilliant panel members - Olivia Dickinson Jonathan Douglas Peter Robinson @AntonioGould Rosie Flewitt, Jane Lewis and Sandra Mathers - outcomes here: gov.uk/government/new…

Professor Jackie Marsh from Education@Sheffield chaired an expert panel that has approved 6 new apps to help parents support their children's reading, writing and speaking 👇 gov.uk/government/new… #earlyyears #DigitalLearning

My conference paper from DigiLitEY summer school reached 100 reads ResearchGate researchgate.net/publication/30…

“Digital media is becoming fully embedded in the daily lives of young children yet early learning practitioners are failing to receive the support they need to include technology within teaching provision.” By Dr Kate Gilchrist DigiLitEY Jackie Marsh blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digi…

For those who might have to stay home with young children over the next months, these apps may be of interest hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/#information and there are also resources online to support active movement, such as these: nhs.uk/10-minute-shak… and activeforlife.com/49-fun-physica…

Want to be an inventor? Practice #makes perfect! 💯 🔎 Be an inventor for a day. See ➡️ bit.ly/2K5ZQEK Find more activities here: bit.ly/2RJFPrP #MakerEd #Makerspace #HomeLearning

New challenge to help use up some of those delivery cardboard boxes. 📦 Try making musical instruments using these and other bits found around the house. 🎶🎸 ➡️➡️ bit.ly/2wXQQyH Visit makerfutures.org/programme/make… #MakerEdUK #makers #HomelearningUK #HomeSchoolingUK

Understanding young children's digital literacy practices in homes is of increased importance. Our latest article offers some lenses to study this complex phenomena Heidi Sairanen @anordstr PLC Helsinki Faculty of Educational Sciences, Univ. of Helsinki DigiLitEY LECI Group doi.org/10.1177/146879…

READY, SET....RAFT RACE! ⛵ Who can make the fastest wind powered raft? Challenge your family to a raft race this weekend. All you need is paper, straws and tape. Full challenge details here> bit.ly/2WYrMS7 #makereducation #sciencefromhome #homeschoolinguk

We are very excited by this new project! We will be collaborating with EngineeringSheffield, @iForge_sheff @iForger_Pete Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre on engaging engineers in STEM work with schools. If you are an engineer based in the Sheffield City Region and would like to be involved, please get in touch!

The report of our study on digital play, conducted with The LEGO Foundation Dick Ng'ambi, Karin Murris and UCT team and Dubit, has been released. @BeckyParry68 Fiona Scott Julia Bishop @cathbannister1 Education@Sheffield Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield

buff.ly/2Qpm3kd The 2020 EECERA SIG ‘Digital Childhoods, Multimodality and STEM’ online meetings kick off on the 8th of September. The meetings are open to all interested researchers and there's still time to book a space!

The amazing work of @KevinClarkPhD can be seen in this exciting new Netflix series netflixbookmarks.com and he also has pulled together resources for talking to children about racism - cdmid.gmu.edu/picks. Please share widely!

Countdown to our FREE family maker project Adventures in Sustainable Play has started. Sign up to get your free kit bag and join in the fun from this Thursday! makerfutures.org/adventures-in-…

Guidance for parents on children's digital play: legofoundation.com/media/2854/par… This was developed through our study with the The LEGO Foundation on play and technology: legofoundation.com/en/learn-how/k…