Six months ago, I promised my 7-year-old daughter that I would buy her an iPad. It was an impulse I may have to regret. She didn’t even know what an iPad was. I guess it was my realization that she was gaining more knowledge from the internet than what she got from her expensive private school and that an iPad would further boost her interest. However, we already have a desktop and several laptops at home. The first thing I did when I came home for vacation was to add WiFi to our PLDT internet modem. She knows more (aside from gaming) about internet use than her mom.
I always wonder how she learned to speak English with perfection, which made her teachers cringe. Although we trained her just to talk in English at an early age, she discovered it with ease, which surprised us so much that when she was introduced to the net, she adapted it like it was the most natural thing in the world. Like any toddler, the hive of attraction to the net would be e-games, and Nishreen probably has the best of teachers at it. Her brother, who is 16 years old and her senior, is virtually born next to each other in the family tree. He is an e-gamer addict with electronic gadgets in his hands, from Atari to SEGA to PlayStation to the Internet. To understand the use of anything on the net, one has to read a few instructions; it has accelerated not only her command of the English language but also her speed of reading and apprehension. A few weeks after I returned to KSA, I learned while I was chatting with her that her sister bought an iPad and that she is now adept at it. Several months later, I had to take an emergency leave for a good reason. Nancy and her friends were coming to the Philippines from the USA. After forty years of not seeing each other, it was a trip I simply had to make. When Nancy and her friends stayed with us for a few days before flying back to the USA, Nishreen’s English command was tested. She was amazing. J
It has been more than a week since I returned to KSA. A few days ago, I saw this message on my facebook;
“honor ako papa smurf” (After we watched the movie “Smurfs” in 3D, she started calling me ‘papa smurf’ :-)
I promised to buy her an iPad if she ended the school year with honors. I knew she would because when I went to pick her up at her school, I saw her name posted on the school’s bulletin board.
Okay! iPad :-(
Why You Should Not Buy Your Child an iPad
With the iPad 3 debut coming, you can bet a lot of children and young adults are begging their parents to buy them an Apple tablet. But you'd be wise to resist the urge, according to CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige.
Wed, February 29, 2012
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Then there are the mind-boggling reasons for buying your kid an iPad. In the iYogi survey, 57 percent of parents with two children or more would be happy to use the iPad to keep their kids out of their hair. Who would have thought the iPad would make a good babysitter?
Almost all of the parents in the iYogi survey who were willing to buy their child an iPad approved of its use as a homework tool. The iPad has been heralded as nothing less than a miracle for helping autistic students and disabled adults like Kevin Berg communicate. Multimedia e-textbooks created on iBooks Author and running on the iPad may one day revolutionize teaching at high schools.
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