iPad Kids - Page 3 of 136 - Educational & Learning Apps for the iPad and iPad mini

Avoid App Anxiety

By Emily On April 3, 2014 · Add Comment

With all of the conflicting studies on screen time limits and which apps are best for supplementing early learning, it’s hard for parents to disseminate the information coming at them from all angles. The Fred Rogers Center works to help nurture the relationship between children and media, and provides on their website some wonderful resources on how to build an app library that will benefit young players and enhance early learning. Just yesterday the center’s site published a great post giving readers some wonderful examples of how three different apps enhanced early learning. The post’s author Susan Friedman cited a study from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) that looked at how teachers choose to use technology. The Fred Rogers Center and the NAEYC also released a joint position statement as a guideline for educators who want to introduce technology to kiddos under [...]

Read Full Review →

Screen Time Limits Proven To Help Health

By Marc On April 3, 2014 · Add Comment

We’ve all gone back and forth on screen limits, because, let’s face it, they’re a pain in the butt. Is it really that bad to let your child play an educational app and give yourself 20 minutes to breathe? This is something we’ve struggled with ourselves at iPad Kids (see Why I Decided To Do Away With Screen Limits). A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics might give you the motivation to enforce a limit on screen time. According to the study, limiting screen time was shown to have some very valuable positive health effects. These health improvements were very gradual, so the parents weren’t even aware they were occurring. The researchers, however, noticed some great health effects: Parents who set limits can count on some seriously positive results for their kids — including improved sleep, better grades, less aggressive behavior, and lower risk of obesity. For an easily [...]

Read Full Review →

April is Autism Awareness Month

By Emily On April 2, 2014 · Add Comment

April is Autism Awareness Month and today April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. To recognize this cause, many developers have reduced the download price of several apps, some are even free! Here’s a short list of some of our favorite app deals: StoryToys is also celebrating the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen by pricing two apps at $0.99 – Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid. Both interactive storybooks are based on popular fairytales and offer cool 3D artwork Functional Communication System offers customizable features to create a system that helps non-verbal kiddos communicate effectively, helping to alleviate frustration and teach players about the world around them – valued at $19.99 it’s FREE for a limited time Children with autism have difficulty recognizing emotional and social cues – Discovering Emotions with Zeely can help teach children about how to identify the facial expressions that accompany different emotions [...]

Read Full Review →

Parental Paranoia: Are We All Crazy?

By Marc On April 1, 2014 · Add Comment

It’s very hip to be terrified of letting your children outside without wrapping them in a giant bubble and adding a GPS tracker to make sure they’re not hurt or kidnapped. Because none of us remember a childhood where we were allowed outside alone and weren’t kidnapped and/or murdered, OR WORSE. Oh wait, that was every day of the week, not too long ago. The newest scare tactic is spreading via Facebook, and shows how the ridiculous stickers on your car are putting your entire family at risk. This idea is lampooned wonderfully over at BoingBoing: No one’s saying that this has ever happened, just that they can imagine it, and if they can imagine it, bad guys can imagine it, and if you can imagine a bad guy doing something bad, then you should drop everything to prevent that imaginary thing from coming true. When in trouble/Or in doubt/Run in [...]

Read Full Review →

Screen time for kids: the latest recommendations

By Emily On April 1, 2014 · Add Comment

In the last few weeks there have been some widely conflicting reports about how much screen time – and what kind of screen time – is appropriate for young children. There seems to be several schools of thought on the matter, including a growing movement to ban all handheld devices for children under the age of 12. For parents like me who don’t limit screen time on handheld devices, this would be the equivalent of going cold turkey for my kids. Bottom line: it just ain’t happenin’. We do, however, limit the amount of television we watch. My husband and I have decided that while the handheld devices we own offer interactive learning (depending on the app) and can teach our two young children a range of skills that supplement their school learning, TV is just there. In our opinion it just spits out noise and pictures, however “educational” the [...]

Read Full Review →

Educational & Learning Apps for the iPad and iPad mini

Avoid App Anxiety

Screen Time Limits Proven To Help Health

April is Autism Awareness Month

Parental Paranoia: Are We All Crazy?

Screen time for kids: the latest recommendations

Get Free Kids Apps

Recent Posts

Disclaimer

Categories

Recent Comments