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in and use of technology is driven by parents. "The baby isn't going to be asking for the iPad; parents are going to be giving it to him," she said. "That's not to say, however, that a kid who knows his way around an iPhone is necessarily a bad thing. I don't think there's anything morally superior about not having technology in your life," she said. She says that the
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more recent. Wartella revealed that from 2012 to 2014, the number of preschool teachers with tablet computers in their classrooms nearly doubled, rising from 29 to 55 percent. More than half of the teachers with tablets said they used the computers to help teach students while three-quarters of them said they used them for administrative tasks, such as emailing parents. There isn't a consensus on how to use these technologies in preschools, with young children and their developing brains, in developmentally appropriate ways, she said.
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The author or editor of 14 books and approximately 250 book chapters, research articles, technical reports, and research papers with over 20100 citations, she sits on a variety of national and international advisory boards on children and media, such as the PBS Next
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Wartella's studies include data that shows the changing ways that parents are coming to terms with a world where online media is ubiquitous. She was intrigued to see how many parents are monitoring their kids' technology use, and the extent to which they place a higher value on security rather than
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