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In 2012, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College released the joint position statement, Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children Birth through Age 8. The research-based position statement responds to the rapidly expanding public interest in digital media for young children, matched and spurred by the growing market--and marketing--of these new technologies for early childhood education. The current study follows up the 2010 survey conducted by the Fred Rogers Center, Northwestern University, and NAEYC to gauge the environment for adopting the principles and recommendations of the position statement. This report on findings from the 2012 survey of a cohort of 1,457 early childhood educators examines current school and program practices regarding technology use, the nature of technology support provided to educators, and ways that educators currently are using technology and digital media in the delivery of early childhood education. (author abstract)
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