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Should a 4-year-old have an iPhone?

Written by Marc Prensky on Monday, 24 August 2009

For our twenty-first century kids, technology is their birthright

When I recently upgraded my iPhone 3G to the 3Gs (after almost 1 year, so I got the discount) I had to decide what to do with the old one. My 4-year-old son was clamoring for it, and I said OK. But then I thought about it. It’s a pretty expensive, complex, breakable, adult device. Should a 4-year-old really have an iPhone?

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The End of the mLearning Revolution

Written by Chris Nash on Friday, 03 July 2009
Teacher and learning consultant, Chris Nash, takes a long cold look at how the mLearning revolution failed to deliver on its promise of personalised anytime, anywhere learning. Instead, he suggests, it has become subsumed into delivering the same drill and kill techniques of other technology based learning or ironically, "mobile learning in a classroom". (7) Leave a Comment
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