A slide presentation on the advances in mobile technology relating to childhood education.

1. image: motionblur Mobile Preschool?Welcome to iTouch Education @kimberleyanns

2. Technological advances in the past decade have changed the way we experience and view the world. …even attracting the smallest people of our world. image: speedye

3. image: AiyaHMPH Touch is an integral part of how toddlers and children learn from their environment

4. And with access to hands-on mobile technology like the iPad & iPhone young children are given new and unique opportunities for development and learning. image: Kevin H

5. so why not introduce child-based iPad and iPhone apps? image: seventwentysk

6. Apple boasts over 65000 iPad 350000 iPhone applications available for download. source: Apple.com image: Jorge Quinteros

7. image: Kathy Cassidy With a seemingly endless amount of game and education applications specifically designed for young minds.

8. image: AdrienneMay From counting games,

9. image: B.Inspired Vintage To alphabet puzzles,

10. And even musical apps that use touch to produce sounds and images! image: Krypto

11. All on-the-go, to boot. image: Bwana

12. image: Wease Though the amount of children’s educational apps is increasing exponentially

13. image: courosa Some argue against the use of technology in child development.

14. image: SMN Suggesting that iPads and iPhones are entertainment rather than education

15. The American Academy of Pediatrics even goes as far as to advise limited usage of tablet and mobile devices for children. image: TimmyGUNZ source: Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keefe Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives

16. But with their popularity and accessibility, will mobile devices fall prey to a doctors ‘recommendation’? image: Florian SEROUSSI

17. One parent praises his son’s iPad as the reason his speech, word recognition, and hand-eye coordination have advanced so rapidly image: ebot source: Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives

18. Another suggests that perhaps we must adapt to new technology source: Free Press:The Touch Generation: The Evolution of Digital Natives Even the ways that we teach our children. image: Insight Imaging: John A Ryan Photography

19. Jason Krogh, developer of award-winning childrens program Tickle Tap Apps, believes that with the fast pace of our technological society, we must move quickly in adapting to new forms of technology. source:thestar.com: iPhone apps a hit with preschoolers image: Theory

20. image: mars_discovery_district Nobody knows what kind of advances tomorrow will bring…

21. But what is one thing we can know for sure? Just like computers have started to replace books image: BES Photos

22. Another new mobile technology of learning is just beyond the horizon. image: neeravbhatt

23. All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike and sourced from flickr. image: danmachold