Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.
The Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board engaged in an extensive debate about classroom iPad use at Monday’s meeting after district administrators ...
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — A few months before her daughter started kindergarten, Claire Benoist saw a Facebook post that stunned her. Another family with an incoming kindergartner was wondering if it ...
The kindergarten classroom at Margaret’s House Child Care Center at Rochester Institute of Technology just got a few new favorite toys—iPads. While many adults may use iPads every day for work, the ...
A nationally representative Education Week survey found that 56 percent of educators believe that “off-task behavior on laptops, tablets, or desktops is a major source of distraction that cuts into ...
Last year, 40 tablet computers were delivered to the children of two remote Ethiopian villages. The villagers were 100-percent illiterate—the kids had never seen road signs, product labels, or printed ...