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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

Is digital technology good for kids?

touch screen generation The Atlantic Hanna Rosin

When I was a kid my parents limited the amount of time my sisters and I could watch television to weekends and some weeknights if our homework was done, but only for half an hour. My parents encouraged us to read, play game or do anything “constructive.” Staring at the television was considered a waste [...]

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Not fun: phonics game on an iPad

books are better than phonics games

Does it make any sense to hope your kid will learn phonics by playing games on an iPhone or iPad? A book seems simpler, less expensive and better. And kids like to be read to. In a book, the words are in context with the story and pictures. I don’t own an iPad so I [...]

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The world is iFlat

Photo by Daniel Friedman

I really wanted to go to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year to check out the Mommy Tech exhibition area. I get plenty of press releases about tech stuff for moms, so I imagined booth after booth of gadgets and apps providing tech solutions to real and imaginary parenting issues. I haven’t found [...]

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