Starting school has always been perceived as one of the most important transitions in a child’s life and as a major challenge for the adults around him/her. Measured in social and intelectual terms, the success of this initiation is deemed by many specialists a determining factor in the easy adaptation of the newly-student to the specific demands of the educational environment. Some reference books (Fabian & Dunlop, 2002; Dunlop & Fabian, 2003) even advance the idea of a long-term impact of this period, since all subsequent experiences of the child may be influenced by his/her initial success (or failure). The huge contribution of ICT in education, in a century when the technological boom is an unprecedented one in the history of mankind, thus becomes completely justifiable by the richness of contexts and learning experiences they make available to the preschool and young age school pupils. The studies performed in various states of the world have already emphasized the positive role of inserting such modern means in the educational process, while affirming at the same time the need to train the teaching staff in this respect. In this context, the present article focuses on a subject of topical interest: the impact of digital teaching resources on the beginning of school and the teacher’s role in developing some learning circumstances that should encourage the use of ICT. The debate is one with major implications in our area of interest, as ICT means can decisively influence, even during the kindergarten years, the training and development of intellectual work skills. In point of fact, the digital resources have many advantages from the point of view of improving the teaching-learning- assessment process, widely considered in the following pages, which comprise a critical and comparative analysis of the phenomenon, with a stress on the characteristics of the education system in Romania and on the benefits of exploiting, at national level, digital products that should support the transition from preschool to primary school.

ICT, preschool, primary education, transition