Early Childhood Futures Research in East Melbourne, Victoria | Education

Early Childhood Futures Research

Locality: East Melbourne, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9230 8371

Address: L1, 232 Victoria Parade 3002 East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Great opportunity here

24.01.2022 Thrilled to have contributed to this special issue of Play School!

24.01.2022 ‘It’s essential that researchers collaborate with early childhood teachers and educators to develop evidence-based practices for working with young children.’ ...says ECA CEO, Samantha Page. ECA welcomes the decision of the COAG Education Council to establish Australia’s first national evidence institute for education. Read more: bit.ly/2Yz08ee

22.01.2022 International Play Association: Play in lockdown report https://www.playaustralia.org.au//Lib/IPA-Covid-report.pdf

21.01.2022 New profile page released today :-) https://www.acu.edu.au//institute-for-learning-sciences-an

21.01.2022 Great opportunity and free!

21.01.2022 Helpful tip for media literacy

21.01.2022 2020 Symposium. Opening plenary by Professor Michael Henderson

20.01.2022 Does your child like solving puzzles? Follow Swoosh and Glide in eSafety's new online safety activity book for the early years. Download four picture puzzles to help your child think about how to explore the internet safely. https://bit.ly/2F6JsEJ

20.01.2022 Very interesting read

18.01.2022 A wonderful new resource on Digital Play by Lydia Plowman https://www.de.ed.ac.uk//Digital%20Play%20-%20Plowman%2020

18.01.2022 Check out this piece by Dan Donahoo

17.01.2022 Congratulations to the ABC - collaborators with us on our ARCLP19 project Young Children in Digital Society on receipt of the Good Design Award for Digital Design Apps and Software! A wonderful achievement for a beautiful piece of work supporting Australian children and families. https://good-design.org//abc-kids-designed-with-kids-for-/

15.01.2022 Just released a Radio National piece on young children and digital technology to which we contributed https://www.abc.net.au//toddlers-and-teens--bett/12266526

15.01.2022 Some important advice

13.01.2022 A great piece about Bluey and citing our research into popular culture and children’s play and our contribution to the ECA Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies

11.01.2022 So much of the work of early childhood educators goes on with little recognition. In this issue of Every Child, leaders share what early childhood education and care means, and express their gratitude for your dedication and hard work. Read more in your free article: bit.ly/3gn2GTX

08.01.2022 How can you help your child make the most of digital technology in early childhood? Join our free, live webinar on Tuesday 19 May at 8pm AEST to find out. Play...-based learning expert Professor Susan Edwards will talk about how digital technology can help your child learn, and how you can get the most out of it for your child. For more info and to register: https://raisingchildren.net.au//webinars/beyond-screen-time

07.01.2022 Today we found out our application for the ACU Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Exellence and Engagement was succesful! Congratulations to our wonderful team at Early Childhood Futures. So very proud and excited.

05.01.2022 Read all about our latest research into digital practices https://ncec.schoolzineplus.com/enews?nid=30

05.01.2022 New resources and content from a wonderful collaboration between the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, Australian Federal Police and Office of eSafety - using networked technologies safely in the early years https://playingitsafe.org.au/home/

05.01.2022 **[Note: Share with any early childhood educators you know]** The program I developed to teach young children digital literacy and online safety through play-ba...sed learning has been funded by Gandel Philanthropy to run a pilot program. This will include free professional development and support to early childhood educators. So, we’re currently looking for early childhood educators to be part of our pilot project to launch Playing IT Safe in early childhood centres and kindergartens. If you’d like to take part simply register your interest by clicking the link. [https://alannahmadeline.typeform.com/to/hwqnuv](https://alannahmadeline.typeform.com/to/hwqnuv)[ ](https://www.facebook.com//a.15983777737/3541360485892461/)

04.01.2022 A new initiative supporting safe IT use amongst young children and their families.

04.01.2022 Just published a paper in the Oxford Review of Education from our ARC Discovery Project 'New play pedagogies for ECEC' https://www.tandfonline.com//10.1080/03054985.2020.1750358

03.01.2022 Kiya’s Excellent eBirthday Our Play School team worked very closely with the Office of the eSafety Commissioner and Early Childhood Australia to develop this special eSafety episode for Monday. Check out what they had to say.

02.01.2022 Congratulations Dan Donahoo on having this worked featured by the LSE! We were thrilled to work with you

01.01.2022 Kate Highfield- fantastic!