Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children explores the possibilities digital technology brings to enhance the learning and developmental needs of young children.

1. Composing an email: Social interaction in a preschool classroom Susan Danby, Christina Davidson, Lisa Given, Karen Thorpe 2. Technology and Literacy in the Early Years: framing young children's meaning-making with new technologies Cathy Burnett, Karen Daniels 3. Digital technology and young children's narratives Susanne Garvis 4. Young children's internet cognition Susan Edwards, Helen Skouteris, Andrea Nolan, Michael Henderson 5. Young children photographing their learning to share their lived experiences of the learning environment Narelle Lemon 6. Shared Curiosity, Technology and Mathematics: Exploring Transitions Between Two and Three Dimensions Geir Olaf Pettersen, Monica Volden, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard 7. "I think it should be a little kind of exciting": A technology-mediated story-making activity in early childhood education Ewa Skantz Åberg, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Niklas Pramling 8. Multimodal meaning-making for young children: Partnerships through blogging Marni J. Binder, Reesa Sorin, Jason Nolan, Sarah Chu 9. Availability and use of personal computers in German kindergartens - preconditions and influences Martina Endepohls-Ulpe, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl, Christine Deckers 10. iPlay, iLearn, iGrow: Tablet technologies, curriculum, pedagogies and learning in the 21st century Nicola Yelland 11. The tablet computer as a mediational means in a preschool art activity Malin Nilsen, Mona Lundin, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling 12. Beginning the conversations about young children's engagement with technology in contemporary times Karen McLean, Susan Edwards