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Mobile Preschool?Welcome to iTouch Education

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Technological advances in the past decade have changed the way we

experience and view the world.

…even attracting the

smallest

people of our world.

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is an integral part of how toddlers and children learn from their environment

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And with access to hands-on mobile technology

like the iPad & iPhone

young children are given new and unique

opportunities for development and

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so why not introduce child-based iPad and iPhone apps?

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Apple boasts over

65000 iPad 350000 iPhone

applications available for download.image: Jorge Quinteros

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With a seemingly endless amount of game and education applications specifically designed for young minds.

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From counting games,

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To alphabet puzzles,

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And even musical apps that use touch

to produce sounds and images!

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All on-the-go, to boot.

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Though the amount of children’s educational apps is increasing

exponentially

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Some argue

againstthe use of technology in child development.

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Suggesting that iPads and iPhones are

education

entertainment

rather than

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The American Academy of Pediatrics even goes as far as to advise limited usage of tablet and mobile devices for children.

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source: Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keefe Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives

But with their popularity and accessibility, will mobile devices fall prey to a doctors ‘recommendation’?

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One parent praises his son’s iPad as the reason his

speech, word recognition, andhand-eye coordinationhave advanced so rapidly

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source: Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives

Even the ways that we teach our children.

source: Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives

Another suggests that perhaps we must adapt to new technology

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source: thestar.com: iPhone apps a hit with preschoolers image: Theory

Jason Krogh, developer of award-winning childrens program Tickle Tap Apps, believes that with the fast pace of our technological

society,

we must move quickly in adapting to new forms of technology.

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Nobody knows what kind of advances tomorrow will bring…

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But what is one thing we can know for sure?

Just like computers have started to

replace books

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Another new mobile technology of learning

is just beyond the horizon.

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