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Transcripts for CNN Sanjay Gupta MD 20130810 20:53:00

Before. what about the ipad apps? well, you know, when the american academy of pediatrics came out with the policy statement in 2011, when that policy statement was written, ipads didn t even exist and so we were really looking at passive media use, so screen time for kids where they were sitting watching a tell vitezed program whether it would be on a traditional tv screen or a smaller tablet screen and what we knew then was that there was no benefit educationally for that type of a program, and there was a concern for risk. but when it comes to interactive media, you know, nobody knows that answer. there may be a benefit. the one thing i can say that s really important for families to know is that although these things can be virtual approximations of games that we all played as kids and things that, you know, maybe kids can learn phonics and maybe kids can learn math skills and such, but you re never going to be able to replace the ability for a child to learn by putting two block ....

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