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28

By HITN Early Learning Collaborative on October 28, 2013
Common Sense Media 0-8

Common Sense Media reports that the percentage of children under the age of two have used mobile devices, rose sharply, from 10% in 2011 to 38% in 2013. Despite this increase, only 28% of children across all families in the … Continue reading

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Jan

9

By HITN Early Learning Collaborative on January 9, 2014
Making Meaningful Learning Games

In ELC’s quest to create meaningful tools for preschoolers along with their families and teachers, we love to learn about educators and creators as passionate as we are. In this post from KQED’s MindShift, Katrina Schwartz reflects on the transitional … Continue reading

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Jun

7

By HITN Early Learning Collaborative on June 7, 2013
Born in Another Time

Innovative technologies—from smartphones and smart TVs to iPads and even Leap Pads for preschoolers—have launched our children into a digital age, a period in which the average teenager texts 60 times every day, a large majority of teens have a social networking site, … Continue reading

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Jun

7

By HITN Early Learning Collaborative on June 7, 2013
How True Are Our Assumptions about Screen Time?

Video, TV, interactive books, screen-based games: Young children today are practically bathed in this stuff as young as toddlerhood. What is the impact? As a parent who is simultaneously fascinated by and worried about the impact of electronic media on … Continue reading

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