siliconindia | | July 20174We have gone all apps now ­ starting from banking, healthcare, automobile, smart homes to education. Apps are taking over the world like a storm. But let us scrutinize if we really need such apps in our life that now almost monitor our lifestyle (says control). Whether it is counting the number of steps walked each day or the need to deposit money into our or others account, book tickets, control electronic devices or automobiles, order food, or even get your automobile service booked, the numbers of apps in each category is increasing at a Tsunami rate. But the biggest change it is brining is in the education segment where smart classrooms are now as necessary as smart teachers. While talking to various education app developing organizations, I realized that many of the app creators have followed the need for years to comprehend the exact pain areas and re-crafted their solutions till they became the best fit in their respective categories. Some even started as a house-hold project for their own kids to learn fast and smart, which later went on to become one of the best education apps in its genres. Catering to kids of few months to college going teenagers, education apps have changed the dynamics of not just education but even the very basic of our kids' infancy. But do these apps have all positive colours to it? With both parents being working, they are left with no time to bear the tantrums of their kids and handle it playfully. Hence online channels like ChuChu TV, WowKidz, Kidzooly and others now play an integral part of our kids' life. But several researches have found that kids glued to such apps over mobile or desktop develop social inhibitions and are mostly cut-off from any relation building activities while their physical and mental health too takes a toll. Hence education app developers need to build their apps in such a fashion that infuses both physical and mental exercise while helping kids grow healthy, while parents need to find time out to work towards their kids' holistic development. Anamika SahuManaging Editoreditor@siliconindia.comApps ­ Changing Education, But Requires Considerable GuidanceEditorialsiliconindia Vol 5 Issue 12 - 2 SE - July 21, 2017 Education Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Special Editor Shyam Editorial Team Adil Abdul Kareem E Ananth.V Shefali Mathur Sujith Vasudevan Susila Govindaraju Trisha Pragya Nelson Devasia GM- Sales & Marketing Jaya Arora Sales Team Jyoti Sharma Ashu Sethi Abhishek Garima Anand Advertising Queries C-16, Sector-6, Noida - 201301 T: 011 45992100 Editorial queries edu_editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit www.siliconindia.com/magazine-in or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com. Cover price is Rs 150 per issue.Printed & published by Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of siliconMedia technologies Pvt Ltd. No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugheshpalya, Bangalore-560017 and Printed at Precision Fototype Service, # 13, Sathyanarayana Temple Street, Halsuru, Bangalore 560008Copyright © 2017 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comSr.Visualiser Maitreyee Visualiser S Sivasankar Vimalraj MDelhi NCRJaya AroraBranch ManagerCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalGroup Art Director Ashok Kumar
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