The final part of this series focuses on digital apps that are aimed at children and their families. As an early years practitioner, you may well be looking for educational apps to use with the children you work with too.
There are countless apps available that are listed as ‘for children’ (or ‘kids’) or ‘educational’. They lure us in with phrases like ‘develops skills’, ‘learning’ and ‘thoughtfully designed for children’ and they often have fun and familiar characters.
Two questions I have often been asked are: ‘How do we really know if an app is suitable for the children in our care’, and ‘Is it really educational’?
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