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Inside a Lab Studying Toddlers and Touchscreens

Chasing Life

CHAPTER

The Differences Between Educational Content and Shooting Games

When the guidelines were written in 1999, it was just television. There was no content for kids under the age of two. We've learned since is that before the age of 18 months, even though children will watch television or play with touch screens, they don't transfer that knowledge to the real world. If you give a child a 16 month old an app that has a Lego building program so they can drag blocks and assemble something,. And then you put them in front of the same blocks, but now in 3D form, they start all over. They don't build what they build before. Starting in 18 months, they can, but they need parental co-teaching.

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