Parents end up treating tablets like precision surgical instruments, gadgets that might perform miracles for their child’s IQ and help him win some nifty robotics competition—but only if they are used just so. Otherwise, their child could end up one of those sad, pale creatures who can’t make eye contact and has an avatar for a girlfriend.
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The Touch-Screen Generation - Hanna Rosin - The Atlantic - 0 views
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our modern fear that every parenting decision may have lasting consequences—that every minute of enrichment lost or mindless entertainment indulged will add up to some permanent handicap in the future
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To date, no body of research has definitively proved that the iPad will make your preschooler smarter or teach her to speak Chinese, or alternatively that it will rust her neural circuitry
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Here is Hanna Rosin on NPR...a supplement to the article: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/24/175173111/your-kids-brains-on-touch-screens
instaGrok | A new way to learn - 0 views
http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2010-cb-advocacy-teachers-are-cent... - 0 views
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This report highlights the stories of nine teachers who are making revolutionary changes in their classrooms. They are joined by colleagues, principals and districts across the country that have begun to embrace both the opportunities and challenges of using an array of digital tools for teaching.
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