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Funny story from a school teacher:

One of the kids she has is determinedly illiterate (7 years old, pretty poor family background) but said kid, after "borrowing" one of the class iPads during lunch hour managed to search up a pile of pornography and got caught.

Teachers were somewhat perplexed how this kid who barely manages to write his own name searches up some fairly complicated terms. He did it by simply using the iPad speech recognition system.



Kids can do genius stuff, they are very very open to experimentation and out of the box thinking(as they don't have a box to start with, I guess).

I recall someones kid discovering that clicking on ads in games opens the safari within the app, finding their way from there into Google, therefore bypassing the parental restrictions.


On a related note, my daughter (grade 1) uses speech recognition to do spell checking and confirm how a word is spelled. Mind, she does complicated words like "imposter" and "infected".

(real example, and yes she's found "Among Us" playthrough videos...)


Suggestion engines are powerful too. When my son was just about 3, he could navigate YouTube from and arbitrary point to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends or a particular garbage truck video.


This. I've heard stories about kids effectively using the suggestions as a multi link menu system.

They open the site, look for one familiar suggestion to start off on, and follow the web from there.




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