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I even downloaded a few books to read - but I recently (looking for cite) read a study that for some reason they had found in a couple of studies that kids don't learn to read or store information as well if they get it from a e-reader or device as they do in a book.
I'd love to see that study. My daughter will be 3 in December and she can recite her entire alphabet, count to 13, spell her name, talk in sentences, she knows the alphabet in sign language and can "recite" it in sign. She knows the sound every letter makes, all her animals, colors and all the sounds they make. She can also add simple numbers, and is able to solve puzzles and has memorized and recites to us most of her books like " Brown Bear Brown Bear".. She has played on an IPAD for at least a year maybe more.. I see no problem storing information on my end.
Its the parents responsibility of the parent to make sure the child is where they should be educationally. The Ipad can help to a degree my daughter can actually trace and write the alphabet with a specially made pen for the Ipad and then we also have the old paper with the letters you trace on it that she can practice on too. It has to be a good balance
The study on reading books compared to e-readers apparently is being conducted by a researcher at Tufts University who is studying neural pathways created by reading.
This article doesn't go in depth, but it gives the researchers name and an intro to the study:
It sounds like her concern is that we don't know yet how the brain really makes neural pathways and cognitive connections from digital material, and there is concern that kids will lose that development that researchers KNOW comes from reading the printed page.
The study on reading books compared to e-readers apparently is being conducted by a researcher at Tufts University who is studying neural pathways created by reading.
This article doesn't go in depth, but it gives the researchers name and an intro to the study:
It sounds like her concern is that we don't know yet how the brain really makes neural pathways and cognitive connections from digital material, and there is concern that kids will lose that development that researchers KNOW comes from reading the printed page.
Thank you for posting this study! I highly doubt though that you will get a great response from some parents here who post on this board because their precious little ones are so smart which makes strong research completely irrelevant to them. I would bet though that anybody with a major in Early Childhood Education, Psychology, Statistics, or Research would appreciate this information and would really limit screen time in general for their own children.
I'd love to see that study. My daughter will be 3 in December and she can recite her entire alphabet, count to 13, spell her name, talk in sentences, she knows the alphabet in sign language and can "recite" it in sign. She knows the sound every letter makes, all her animals, colors and all the sounds they make. She can also add simple numbers, and is able to solve puzzles and has memorized and recites to us most of her books like " Brown Bear Brown Bear".. She has played on an IPAD for at least a year maybe more.. I see no problem storing information on my end.
Its the parents responsibility of the parent to make sure the child is where they should be educationally. The Ipad can help to a degree my daughter can actually trace and write the alphabet with a specially made pen for the Ipad and then we also have the old paper with the letters you trace on it that she can practice on too. It has to be a good balance
That's great and all but I can actually pull hundreds of studies that show negative effects with screen time and cognitive ability. Let me know and I get those studies for you. It's just a lot of work and I would like to know if you're really interested or just being snarky before I put anymore effort into this.
ETA - The articles will be peer reviewed, scholarly articles.
“What we found was that people on paper started to ‘know’ the material more quickly over the passage of time,” says Garland. “It took longer and [required] more repeated testing to get into that knowing state [with the computer reading, but] eventually the people who did it on the computer caught up with the people who [were reading] on paper.”
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