Where is the refurb Nook Color for $139?
Then you also have the option of leaving it running the Nook software with it's library of kid's books and games, OR booting to a CM7 microSD to have access to the entire Android Marketplace.
10 Best Tablets for Kids
by Ricardo Bilton | November 29, 2011 1:29am PST | Image 1 of 11
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Kids, meet tablets
In the consumer electronics world there are two types of parents: Those that are interested in buying tablet computers for their kids and those that are staunchly opposed to doing so. For the latter group, a large part of that rejection comes from price. Electronics are, after all, pretty expensive. Considering how often kids tend to drop or otherwise destroy things, spending hundreds of dollars in a device that may before long be destroyed isn't too bright of an investment. Price-wary parents should be soothed, however, by the fact that, like most things, tablets vary greatly in price. Here's a list of seven kid-friendly tablets ranging from under a hundred dollars to five hundred bucks.
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Nice thing about the iPad is that since everyone is using it you get lots of access to support. Plus you can go to any nearby Apple store to get questions answered.
Kids don't need a tablet. They need to learn the basics first. What is wrong with everyone? Cursive writing is vanishing, I guess printing is next. Paper and pencil or ink is becoming an alien concept. Wow, let's just turn everyone into a mindless little robot relying on a gadget to manage their lives. Ever see "Logan's Run"?
@Romas27 You are absolutly right! It is discouraging to hear from your 9 year old's Teacher "Don't worry about his writing skills, worry about his typing speed! I was dumbfounded and am looking to find a private school now.
I believe it depends upon the child. If the child is bright enough to understand how to use a tablet then let them decide whether or not they are interested. Be sure to pick out one YOU like and tell your wife it's for the kid. Then, if the kid turns out to not be the brightest bulb in the pack or would rather play with G.I. Joe or Barbie or a pet, then you get to keep the tablet for yourself.
Cursive writing is disappearing because noone teaches children how to hold a pen or pencil correctly. Holding it the way man, many people hold it today makes cursive writing difficult - so get rid of it!
We don't use a chisel and stone tablet anymore either, paper and ink replaced it because it was better, modern ink pens replaced a quill feather because they are better and now cursive writing and mailing letters will go the way of the stone tablet and chisel... it is already old tech, and young people are not going to spend their time learning how to do it anymore... do we really need cursive writing? Even authors use a computer... not a typewriter to "pen" the great novels of today.
It is truly the path of technology. I have been saying for quite some time that cursive... and print will be a thing of the past. Using a key pad and perhaps everything on touch screen - or even more advanced than that will be the way we progress. I don't even think there will be paper eventually, so printing will be a thing of the past (now that's going green). Meetings are on line and presentations are right next to it on the computer or tablet. There are associated chat lines and more. As much as many would like it to be different, it is the path.
This has to be the best product on the market in terms of a tablet for kids. http://www.hatchearlychildhood.com/pages/early-learning-tablet-for-kids
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This has to be the best product on the market in terms of a tablet for kids. http://www.hatchearlychildhood.com/pages/early-learning-tablet-for-kids
My reply:
Totally agree. The research done behind the apps is what blows me away. I also like that I can use the tablet for me!
This has to be the best product on the market in terms of a tablet for kids. http://www.hatchearlychildhood.com/pages/early-learning-tablet-for-kids
My reply:
Totally agree. The research done behind the apps is what blows me away. I also like that I can use the tablet for me!
Those who advocate doing away with ink and pen are not thinking about the neurological development of fine motor skills, nor the possibility that a person may need to communicate with others without the availability of electronics are typing. Next there will be no typing but only voice activated texting. Why type when you can talk instead right? I already do this with my smart phone and the tech is only getting better. But, we are short changing our children if we don't find a way to get them to write. I communicate this only because my eight year old is a fantastic reader with an extensive vocabulary, but he is furiously resisting writing or printing. I am going to get him an electronic writing tablet only because it's like pulling teeth to get him to enthusiastically write on paper. He knows sentence structure etc. but is so attracted to the computer that it seems the only way to get him writing. His fine motor skills have suffered because of this and that is a medical fact. Yet, no one seems to bring this up! Please, especially teachers, remember that there is more to writing than sharing thoughts and ideas.
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