November 19, 2006
Old mobile phones are the best educational toys for your kids!
Parents spending hundreds of pounds on high-tech educational toys for toddlers would be better off giving them an old mobile phone to play with, according to an education expert, reports Asian News International (ANI).
"Lydia Plowman, Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, says parents should stop feeling pressurized into buying computerised toys for young children because they are no better than traditional methods of teaching children the basics.
Plowman recommends giving children old mobile phones to play with so they can pretend to call their friends. "Family members often change their phone every year and give their old one to their young child. That's a very good way of introducing them to technology in an authentic setting," she said.
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2006/11/014137.htm