Post on 17-Nov-2014
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Mobile Preschool?Welcome to iTouch Education
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@kimberleyanns
Technological advances in the past decade have changed the way we
experience and view the world.
…even attracting the
smallest
people of our world.
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is an integral part of how toddlers and children learn from their environment
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And with access to hands-on mobile technology
like the iPad & iPhone
young children are given new and unique
opportunities for development and
learning. image: Kevin H
so why not introduce child-based iPad and iPhone apps?
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Apple boasts over
65000 iPad 350000 iPhone
applications available for download.image: Jorge Quinteros
source: Apple.com
With a seemingly endless amount of game and education applications specifically designed for young minds.
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From counting games,
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To alphabet puzzles,
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And even musical apps that use touch
to produce sounds and images!
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All on-the-go, to boot.
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Though the amount of children’s educational apps is increasing
exponentially
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Some argue
againstthe use of technology in child development.
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Suggesting that iPads and iPhones are
education
entertainment
rather than
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The American Academy of Pediatrics even goes as far as to advise limited usage of tablet and mobile devices for children.
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source: Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keefe Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives
But with their popularity and accessibility, will mobile devices fall prey to a doctors ‘recommendation’?
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One parent praises his son’s iPad as the reason his
speech, word recognition, andhand-eye coordinationhave advanced so rapidly
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source: Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives
Even the ways that we teach our children.
source: Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives
Another suggests that perhaps we must adapt to new technology
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source: thestar.com: iPhone apps a hit with preschoolers image: Theory
Jason Krogh, developer of award-winning childrens program Tickle Tap Apps, believes that with the fast pace of our technological
society,
we must move quickly in adapting to new forms of technology.
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Nobody knows what kind of advances tomorrow will bring…
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But what is one thing we can know for sure?
Just like computers have started to
replace books
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Another new mobile technology of learning
is just beyond the horizon.
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