2013年12月19日星期四

Kindle Fire tablets updated with FreeTime family-friendly characteristics

Amazon has unveiled a brand new version of Kindle FreeTime on its Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets, which adds new educational and management characteristics developed for parents with kids who use the devices.

The
free of charge FreeTime app enables parents to set everyday educational goals for reading and finding out. With new Educational Targets, parents can set further objectives for their youngsters - one example is, to study 30 minutes each day. Parents of younger kids who can't but read can set goals to use educational apps like these that enable teach counting, mastering letters, and matching shapes.

Moreover, parents can now choose to ensure their little ones have reached their educational ambitions before they are able to watch cartoons or play games. Tapping on "Learn Very first," means all non-educational content is removed in the child's FreeTime library till they have met their day-to-day reading or educational targets. By far the most preferred kids' books and apps on Amazon happen to be categorised as education or entertainment, so when a parent sets goals for Find out Very first, the operate of identifying which content is educational versus entertainment has currently been accomplished.

Time Limits
enables the devices to be locked at specific occasions. As an example, parents can set a Bedtime so FreeTime only works in the course of the time of day which is chosen.

The
on the web retailer said that the new educational capabilities might be delivered automatically to any Kindle Fire tablet which has the FreeTime app within the coming weeks, just in time for Christmas.

Jorrit Van der Meulen, Amazon's vice president of Kindle devices,
said "We know kids commit a whole lot of time daily taking a look at screens, and we're excited to add new tools that help parents make this time extra educational."

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