Young children are increasingly using tablets as well as smartphones and other devices with touch screens in early education (1) ______ and with family members.

We need to develop “digital literacy” skills and decide how to use these new tools in ways (10) _______ can support every child’s healthy development and learning.

The choices we make about how they are used determine (9) _______ the technology is helpful or not.

Tablets have the (8) _______to be powerful tools for early learning.

Activities offered on the tablet provided new (7) _______for the children to represent and share what they learned.

The teacher’s use of the tablet together with early practical learning activities expanded the children's (6) _______.

The children had already examined real sunflowers and their parts, made sketches, read informational texts and stories, counted seeds, and (5) _______ a variety of investigations, touching on every learning domain.

She then took the children on (4) _______ a tour of Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings.