John Siraj-Blatchford is an honorary Professor at the University of Plymouth Institute of Education and a visiting scholar at the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. He also works as an independent educational researcher and consultant, and is the Research and Development Director of “The Land of Me”. He was previously employed at Cambridge University Faculty of Education and served as an Associate Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme. His books include A Curriculum Development Guide to ICT in Early Childhood Education (Trentham Books 2,006), Supporting Information and Communications Technology in the Early Years (Open University Press, 2003), Developing New Technologies for Young Children (Trentham Books, 2004), and Supporting Science, Design and Technology in the Early Years, published by Open University Press in 1999. He has also written extensively on the subject of Education for Sustainable Development in the early years, (OMEP, 2010).

He has participated in the innovation project on the model of initial training of teachers in early childhood education for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). As coordinator for more than eight years of internships and the network of primary schools, where ePortfolios was born, based on multimedia evidence, and has researched the reflections in the portfolios of primary education students in practice for over 5+ years.

Director of the research group for the Government of Andalusia (SEJ-462): Globalization, Technology, Education and Learning (Gtea) (https://gtea.uma.es). From where he has coordinated various projects on Early Childhood Education of which the following stand out: coordinator for the Grimm Project which has been tested since 1994 up to present day with the introduction of ICT in early childhood centers in Spain.

He currently directs two projects:

*Project R+D+i study of the impact of eRubrics based on assessing skills in the practicum (https://goo.gl/DlPbS4)

*eTablet Project born in 2012 in conjunction with Stockholm University (Sweden) and Casa Grande University (Ecuador) to experiment with the introduction of the Tablet in Children’s classrooms (https://goo.gl/vQl9Ui) and where he is currently working on “video annotations and good practices” to create a database of good practices for initial and ongoing training with the use of ICT in Early Childhood Education (https://goo.gl/cLJnaw).

She has been invited by various national and international institutions to share her experience in the area of using computers in education. Between 2009 and 2012 she designed and developed the training program for Technical Supervisors, pre-school teachers, and educators in the implementation of the Digital Garden for the Integra Foundation, Chile. Today, she works as a teacher in undergraduate and graduate programs for the initial and continuing training of early childhood educators in courses related to the use of ICT. She also advises institutions distributing ICT resources and educational institutions in the selection and incorporation of these resources, so that their responsible use favors and greatly enhances children’s learning.