It was great to immediately see the follow up story of yesterday’s article about the earthquake in Turkey. At first, the man in the picture on the front page looks dead, but the caption actually says he is a survivor that was lifted from the debris. Amazingly enough, the number of known deaths increased from Monday to Tuesday from about 75 to 300. But there are only 25 survivors. Although the country has some support, there is not a lot of technology, and so rescue workers have to dig through debris with their hands.
I thought the reporter for “Children Watching More than Ever”, an article about children’s use of technology with iPhones and iPads, did a fantastic job with the article, getting many different points of view on the topic as well as connecting the dilemma to problems in years past. What absolutely amazes me is that parents would hand over their iPads to a three-year-old: I don’t care what kind of app you have on that thing, a child that young will not benefit from staring at a screen! To me, it’s a copout for parenting, and as the reporter referred to it, “a shut up toy”.
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