Three Little Pigs iPad App Presents Pop-Up Book Of The Future (VIDEO)
This pop-up book app is dazzling, and perfect for the visual learner. There's no doubt that it offers more in the way of knowledge (the x-ray view).
But what about the kinesthetic learner (aren't all toddlers kinesthetic learners)?
A toddler can control the speed of a lo-fi pop-up book, look at it from different angles, finger-read at his/her own pace minus the danger of setting off a distracting effect, i.e., use different parts of his/her brain to make as many connections as possible as he/she explores. There are other advantages that a child development specialist could enumerate more articulately, I'm sure.
This would be a spectacular *additional* experience, not a replacement. It's all about making connections, and the more connections the better, IMO.
Maybe I'll ask my child psychologist friend Heather what she thinks ...
Looks like a cool toy. It won't rot little kids' brains -- as long as parents are reasonable about balancing the use of it with face-to-face interaction, creative play, and all that other good stuff. Here's a link to something I wrote on little kids and high-tech gadgets:
Hi Linda!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a cool toy. It won't rot little kids' brains -- as long as parents are reasonable about balancing the use of it with face-to-face interaction, creative play, and all that other good stuff. Here's a link to something I wrote on little kids and high-tech gadgets:
http://bit.ly/9msrk1
Thanks and have a great holiday!! :)