Alex Morgan is a Lecturer at the Centre for Child Research at Swansea University and Programme Director of the BSc Early Childhood Studies there. She is a qualified teacher and has taught at both Primary and Secondary Level. Previously Alex taught post-graduate initial teacher education, focussing on the areas of ICT, Science and DT. Alex has also worked as a specialist ICT teacher providing in-service education for experienced classroom practitioners, both in schools and in Higher Education. She has experience of working on successful ESRC and BECTa funded research projects exploring ICT and sustained shared thinking in the early years, on ICT and interactive teaching and the development of ICT capability. Following an early career in the electronics and computer industry, John Siraj-Blatchford trained as a teacher. He entered intitial teacher education in 1992, and John is now an Honorary Professor at the University of Swansea and recognised as one of the UK's leading academics engaged in the research and development of ICT in Early Childhood. John has worked at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education and served as Associate Director for Information and Communications Technology for the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme.