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Here, we will analyze and discuss the video “How Children Use iPads” and incorporate an additional article from the internet. We will relate these to the main article and discuss the issue of children and their use of technology.…

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"How Children Use iPads"

In the video, Jennie Rothenberg Gritz and Hanna Rosin discuss the small children’s fascination towards technology and their seemlingly innate way of handling devices such as an iPad. In the video they show Rosin’s son Gideon; a four-year-old who hardly needs any help from his mother when manipulating the iPad.

Gritz and Rosin discuss the issue and acknowledge the growing risk of children using technology, a risk that even the researchers who develop apps for children are very aware of. 

In contrast to Larry Rosen’s argument of the television as the “passive medium”, Rosi…

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"The Impact of Technology on the Developing Child" [1]

Cris Rowan begins her article by comparing “the good old days” (paragraph 1, l. 1) with “today’s families” (paragraph 2, l. 1):

You can tell from the beginning that she is a defender of the traditional time when family values were not distorted by the presence of technology.

She makes an interesting comparison between “the dining room table” (paragraph 1, l. 8) and the “big screen” (paragraph 2, l. 11-12):

In her opinion, the symbol that united the family has been replaced by a symbol that sabotages it.

“T…