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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do your research. Technology is not for little kids. It's for their Lazy care givers.[/quote]

It depends on the age of the child and what kind of tech is being used (and for what). I think that everything ranging from some tv shows to games on a computer can all be very educational. I wouldn't hand a phone over to a 2 yr old and call it educational, but a 4 yr old playing a reading and spelling game for 20 minutes can be a great aid.

I used these while I was growing up (over 30 years ago) and I was able to read on my own and spell at a very early age. Computers in the home was not common at that time, nor was much of any other technology. While in school, we were taught french starting in Kindergarten and once we got a few grades higher up, they would use a french tv show to help us learn more words and how to form sentences and be conversational with it. They knew that only having one teacher try and teach everything would lose kids focus. Adding in different characters on the show and a different medium to help get a point across got us a little bit more engrossed in it.

Programs like Rosetta Stone can do amazing things with an adult (and it's harder for an adult to learn things than a child). The only better way to learn a language is to move somewhere where it is the only language really being used and to immerse yourself into it. Having someone teach you the language in person is not as effective nor as quick. There are other parts of learning that can be beneficial when using technology to do so. Putting on a 20 minute show that is made for kids to teach them about something specific (not talking about the ones normally on tv like Dora, but things you find on netflix maybe) can be fine.

The key is to use it for very short amounts of time and make sure that it truly fits the age of the child and something they need to work on and not too far advanced. When you can make it fun and a game, then the child will put more time into and benefit from the extra focus on that subject. With a child that is around the same person all day long, every day, the child might lose more focus on some things just because it is with the same person, but changing the person could help make it seem more new or fun. A game on the computer for learning can also do things that a physical person just cannot do.[/quote]

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