Integration of the Tablet in a Spanish Early Childhood Education Classroom

Abstract

Nowadays, we live in a society in which unprecedented technological progress that demands a rapid adaptation is taking place. The educational sector needs to adapt to the changing world in which we live. Many authors pointed out that the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has direct consequences in the field of education, starting from early childhood education, to learn how to cope with what some authors have called the “virtual world.” The aim of this work is to analyse, through a research project in a public Spanish early childhood education school, how the use of tablets influences different levels of educational reality (teachers, students, families, and management team). The main objective is to obtain a clear idea of the methodological change that is taking place in many early childhood education schools in Spain, moving from the traditional model to a model based on ICT, and whether this process is beneficial for pupils. A field study was conducted based on questionnaires to the different agents that make up the education system.