Our apps taking over how kids learn?

Going a long with what my article of the week, I feel that this topic fits right into what we are studying. The idea that apps are taking over how kids are learning these days. What I mean by this is that instead of actual books to read, kids are now being introduced to iPads that have books through apps. Such apps were explained in the article in which they help your child learn other languages at the age of four! Media ecology plays an important part in this since it deals with technology playing a leading role in our human affairs. A prime example of technology playing a leading role in our human affairs would be teaching children at young ages how to use an iPad. Instead of picking up a book to read to learn from, children today are now being able to learn through talking books via apps on the iPad. By teaching children at young ages to use these devices, it changes the views of people's cultural perspective. Now the norm in pre-schools is implementing iPads and apps for children to learn through school books and different learning activities. This change in the cultural perspective I feel is rather negative. Not only will children start to rely on such devices but they will also be so attached that it would cut back down on face to face time. A bad thing too would be that if the device was ever broken and don't have the money to get a new one, there goes all those "virtual books" leaving you with no tangible books to read. Those being just a few of the negatives, these book apps do have a rather positive upside. Instead of having to cut trees down, apps are created that bring you books that have animated scenes to certain pages to keep things interesting as well. The childrens books try to incorporate other languages which is also beneficial. If it came down to it though, I would so much rather have a real book than a virtual copy.