The Influence of the Digital Age on Early Childhood Education Based Characters

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10.2991/secret-18.2018.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Digital Era, Early Childhood, Parents, Character

Abstract

The development of the digital era today certainly affects the development of psychology and behavior of early childhood so that the family is the main bastion in conducting good education and adverse effects caused by technological developments in this digital era. The rise of cases of immorality experienced by early childhood is influenced by digital development. The development of sophisticated technology has a positive and negative impact on the whole society. The digital world has a negative impact on moral development and character for early childhood if not supervised by parents. Cyberspace communication begins to open but communication in the real world closes, children tend to be personalized and anti-social. The etiquette and morals grown by parents fade away due to lack of direct communication with other people and social media watched by children does not show moral messages and examples to do good and polite towards others. But there is a positive impact in the digital world for early childhood, as a medium of learning that can show the same object with the original, the media to stimulate imagination and creativity, effective and efficient, and able to train the ability of motor, cognitive and language in children.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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