by Jane Wakefield, BBC
Half of all US 10-year-olds read poorly, according to Dr Michael Levine, executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which was set up to research how digital media impact on learning. One of the centre’s studies, using an iPod Touch, found that the vocabulary of 13 five-year-olds improved by an average of 27% after using an educational app called Martha Speaks. Another study, using a different educational app, had a similar result, with three-year-olds showing a 17% gain. Its latest research compared how children learned using traditional books versus e-readers. The conclusion was that for young children traditional books were more effective in focusing attention on literacy skills while e-readers helped older children maintain attention and excitement with books.
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