Next Generation Learning : 3 Year old effortlessly uses iPad

June 9, 2010 in General by Angelina Roberts

Focusing on the use of the iPad in education I extremely cautiously put in the hands of a three year old and allowed him to use a colouring in application. The App in question is 123 Color HD.

The application is really simple challenge children to color segments of a drawing. Children find and touch the properly numbered or lettered color on the color pallet.

It is amazing just how quickly he was able to learn and interact with the interface from loading up the application through to interacting with the application to find the drawing he wanted to colour.

As numbers and letters are touched they are spoken in the selected language (of which there are a choice) and fun sound effects are played. When the drawing is complete, children are rewarded with animated musical notes and a musical track of their choice.

123 Color HD perfectly balances entertainment fun with educational value, capturing and holding kids’ attention as they learn. 123 Color HD excites and engages kids, makes learning fun and easy, and enables parents to feel great about the games their children want to play.

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123Color HD App.

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4 Comments

July 28, 2010 at 10:43 am | Aishah Bowron

I bought this app 123 Color for my nephew Jake who is is nearly three years old. He seems to enjoy it.
June 10, 2010 at 5:19 am | iphonerulez

Bill Gates would prefer tots learn to use full Windows 7 desktop and a stylus because it’s more useful.
June 9, 2010 at 5:39 pm | tu71586

My daughter has been using the iPhone and now the iPad since she was 2 and half. At the beginning, she would put her finger on the screen for too long but quickly learned how to appropriately touch the screen and manipulate things on the screen. It is amazing how quickly they pick up these things!
June 9, 2010 at 3:46 pm | Pete

My 3 and 6 year olds have been using my iPhones (and now iPad) for the last 2 years. Both can easily navigate around it as well as I can.
They use the drawing programs, the interactive books such as Miss Spider, Snail Mail, and right now they are crazy about Real Racing HD. Even my 3 year old can navigate through all the menus to start a race, change the picture skinned on the car, or switch tracks or cars.
In fact it was he who bought the racing game when I left my iTunes account unlocked on the table whiel installing updates…