Ms Anika Saxena is a Lecturer I in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her teaching areas include early childhood teacher education, leadership, curriculum, technology integration and computational thinking in early childhood education. Trained as a science, computer science and ECE teacher, Ms Saxena worked in ECE education in Hong Kong for many years, holding several positions of senior leadership in international and local schools; gaining a broad experience in the areas of ECE curriculum, teacher training, leadership and technology integration in education. Ms Saxena’s research interests are in early childhood teacher education, technology integration in education, flipped classrooms, artificial intelligence & computational thinking in education and creative aspects of teaching and learning. Her work on integrating digital play with tangible technologies in the early childhood environment has informed the design of digital resources and classroom pedagogies. Her findings provide insight into how preschool children develop competencies, such as problem-solving, inquiry, computational thinking and communication skills as they play with tangible technologies