How to make your Ipad more kid friendly for Learning Spanish
By Ricardo Cuevas on January 14, 2012 in Learn Spanish for Kids with No Comments
As a big time techie and an even bigger early learning advocate, I often find myself in a bit of a “situation” (not the Jersey Shore kind and why do my entries keep referring back to that garbage show?). I love for my boy to play with the Ipad. He loves to watch the Kid Start Spanish videos on there and play with the Words App. He also loves the Magic School Bus (Oceans) app. However, there are times when he’d like to go poking around in areas he doesn’t have any business in. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but certain times (like in the car) you want to be able to keep them in a particular application and make sure they don’t exit out of it.
As you may have heard mentioned a time or two, “There’s an app for that”. The app will effectively allow you to turn off the home button. So once you’re in the desired app you can configure a button combination like “volume up AND down at the same time” which will turn off functions such as the home button, that way the kids can navigate around in the desired app but not exit out of it. There’s also functionality that allows you to turn off the touch features of the screen so that if the child is watching a video they won’t pause it, fast-forward, re-wind, mess with the volume, etc.
The developer of the app developed it specifically for use by his daughter Hanna. Apparently, he had the same problem that most of us parents have with the Ipad. The fact that it’s so easy to navigate is both a good thing a bad thing and this app can help limit some of the bad. I am in no way associated to the developer, I am simply a parent that is also an Iphone/Ipad nut who found something that has been very valuable to me and I want to pass that on.
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