IPad parents figure out how to square fun with education

NEW YORK - Apple Inc's iPads can provide great benefits to childhood education, but "could also be bad for children" if they're improperly applied, according to Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children's Technology Review.

With China's media-savvy parents joining the global trend of sharing their iPads with the next second generation, children are now gaining unprecedented exposure to new media.

Li Xiaomin, an English teacher with RISE, one of Beijing's bigger English tutorial centers for kids, has found iPads a constant topic among her class of eight-year-olds.