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Montreal Gazette - Supervising kids in the digital playground
Published: 2 July 2011
It's becoming common for parents to supply their children with a cellphone when they begin travelling to and from school alone. Suddenly kids can text, and if they've got a smart phone, they can surf the Internet, connecting them to Facebook and other social networking sites鈥�
The virtual playground is increasing in size. Children email, text, tweet and post on Facebook. How much is too much technology in a child's life? We asked psychologist Alain Breuleux, a professor in McGill University's department of educational and counselling psychology. He spent 15 years studying how children use technology to learn, and how teachers use it to teach.
