Is It Necessary to Ban the Use Of Gadget on Early Childhood?
Novi Hidayati (a*), Badru Zaman (b)

a) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
b) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

The advancement of gadget has progressed rapidly in the past 20 years, turning gadget as a basic need for everyone without expection, inculuding to early childhood. However, the excessive use of gadget may cause negative impact. While parents cannot completely ban early childhood from using gadget, they can apply mediation strategy to the children as gadget is indeed necessary from them to adapt in this digital era. The purpose of this article was to know how the impact and mediation strategy of the parents towards the use of gadget on early childhood. This article was made based on the review on some literatures regarding the impact of gadget usage and parental mediation strategy from perspective of parental mediation theory. The result of this article provides information to parents that there are three mediation strategies and positive impact from use of gadget on early childhood.

Keywords: Gadget, Early Childhood, Parental Mediation Strategy

Topic: Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in Early Childhood Education