O uso da tecnologia na primeira infância: influências no desenvolvimento e na aprendizagem

Abstract

The use of technologies has reached a significant space in people's lives, especially in children's daily lives, affecting their relationship with the world, with themselves and with others. From this perspective, the present study aimed to analyze how the use of technology in childhood can influence the child's development and learning process. As specific objectives, it was intended to: 1. Examine the advances in technology and its relevance in the 21st century. 2. Investigate how the child development process occurs; 3. Investigate the influences of technology in childhood; 4. Discuss the limits and possibilities of using technologies in the child's development and learning process. Bringing Lev Vygotsky (1991) as a theoretical foundation, and his interpreters in Brazil, Marta Kohl de Oliveira (1997), Teresa Cristina Rego, (2002), Henri Paul Wallon (1986), among others. Regarding the approach, it consisted of a quantitative and qualitative research, using a Google forms form with twelve closed questions, sent by WhatsApp as an instrument for data construction. At the end of the work, it was concluded, from the results obtained, the impacts of technologies on child development, assuring that these are part of children's daily lives and affect the way they relate to themselves and to the outside world. Therefore, the excessive use of technology in early childhood can have an impact on social interactions and play, causing damage to development and learning.