Source: Philippine News
NEW YORK – Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn’t lead to learning or behavioral problems, experts say.
“It’s a topic that really emerged in the last two years. You can’t pull it from their hands,” Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children’s Technology Review, said this week at a New York panel titled “Baby Brains and Video Games.”
According to a late 2011 survey of 2,200 parents and children in Britain and the United States, 15 percent of kids between three and eight had used their parents’ iPad. Nine percent had their own iPad, while 20 percent had their own iPod.
The same study, by the marketing agency Kids Industries, found 77 percent of parents believed that using tablets was beneficial for their children and the same number thought the gadgets helped develop creativity.
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