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Social media and technology play a significant role in early learning and child care. They provide access to educational resources and help develop skills in numeracy, cognition, and motor skills. Digital learning tools, such as educational apps, enhance early learning experiences. They also strengthen communication between parents, educators, and children. Social media and technology can be used by anyone in the field and help share information easily. However, there are pros and cons. While they provide educational resources and improve academic skills, not all apps are educational and excessive screen time can have negative effects on physical and mental health. Hi, my name is Harman Dibkar and today my podcast topic is how does social media and technology support early learning and child care. Social media and technology plays integral part in our lives and they can have a significant impact on early learning and child care. In this technical world, social media and technology offers numerous opportunities to support and enhance early learning and child care experiences. Social media and technology is very important because it provides more offers for the teachers as well as for the children. First of all, it provides access to educational resources as it provides wide range of educational resources for early learning and child care. Educators and parents use various types of websites, apps and other online platforms for children by which they can learn easily and can grasp more education. These resources can help children to develop their skills such as numeracy, cognitive and motor skills many more. It also helps in language development, social and emotional development. Secondly, digital learning tools. Technology also offers with a wide range of learning tools which can enhance early learning experiences. We can use whiteboards and other educational apps which will help young children to learn easily. Thirdly, it strengthens the bond between parents, educators and the children as they can have effective communication with each other like they can interact with children through video chat and teacher can know about children's interest with the conversation of children's parents. In addition, anyone can use social media and technology in early learning and child care field whether they are educators or parents and others who provide resources to support early learning and child care development as it is the easiest way to share information. It will also help to become a better citizen by allowing us to stay informed with every current event and connect with others in every community. Moreover, using social media and technology will help others to be more professional by providing platforms for networking as one can expand their network and one can stay connected with the employees and it also helps to expand knowledge. Last but not the least, social media and technology have both pros and cons in early learning and child care field. It can be used to enhance communication between educators and parents by providing them information. Pros of social media and technology are firstly, they provide endless educational resources as they can use whiteboard to provide information to the young children by which they can learn easily. Secondly, it can improve basic academic skills as it can develop their skills such as literacy, numeracy and vocabulary skills and memory which will help them in their development. Next one is cons of social media and technology. First of all, not all apps are educational for children. Some of them are for entertainment purposes. Secondly, excessive screen time. Children spend most of their precious time on screen as they use tablets, computers which have negative impact on their physical health and mental health. It can also put impact on the sleeping pattern. Thanks.