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Parents interact with children differently over e-books
Posted Dec 28, 2011
Media Outlet:
The New York Times
In The New York Time's blog "Motherlode," blogger KJ Dell Antonia sited a 2006 study conducted at Temple's Infant Lab: "Parents interact differently with children over an e-reader than over a physical book," she wrote. The researchers, she noted, found that parents reading books aloud regularly asked children questions about the book, whereas parents sitting with the child while a device read to them didn’t ask these questions, or relate images or incidents in the book to the child’s real life. Instead, their conversation was focused on how to use the device: “Careful! Push here. Hold it this way.”