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Originally Posted by meeera
I'm still not sure what your concrete objections are to a tablet. When sensibly adjusted and used, a backlight will not mysteriously damage children's eyes any more than any other light, and it has the rather large benefit (if we are talking about young children or graphical materials) of colour.
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I do not want to introduce children to a modern OS such as a iOS or Android systems before they barely know who they are or have reached a level of competent literacy and numeracy. It's much to early introduction in their development and it can be detrimental to various motor and social skills laying the foundation for addictive behaviour and issues unchecked.
I like eReader's because it's so low tech in terms of the interface, it really is very close to a book then also in terms of the reflective nature of the screen, just like paper, where the child can dwell on the image, it inspires their imagination, were words are dominant and pictures are sometimes, but not all the time.
I'm no ludite either, technology is great but social media has a lot to answer for and I won't go off on that one.
Look, I've been using computers since a young teen but todays appliance like hyper-fidelity, highly powered sophisticated and hyper-connected devices, it's like sending your child to school on Apollo 11 or something like that... ya dig?
