{"id":4461,"date":"2026-09-02T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/practice-app-independent-or-dependent\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:45:49","slug":"practice-app-independent-or-dependent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/practice-app-independent-or-dependent\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a Practice App Make You More Independent, or Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><script>(function(){function fix(){var m=document.querySelector(\"meta[name='twitter:data2']\");if(!m)return;var t=m.getAttribute(\"content\");if(!t)return;var el=document.querySelector(\".blog-single__meta-1 li\");if(!el)return;var target=t.toUpperCase().replace(\"MINUTES\",\"MIN READ\").replace(\"MINUTE\",\"MIN READ\");if(el.textContent!==target)el.textContent=target;}document.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",fix);window.addEventListener(\"load\",fix);setTimeout(fix,100);setTimeout(fix,500);setTimeout(fix,1500);setTimeout(fix,3000);})();<\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width:800px;margin:0 auto;padding:24px 24px 64px;font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;color:#19394C;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;\">\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">There is a version of practicing with technology that makes you better at practicing without it. There is another version that makes you worse. They look almost identical from the outside, and the difference between them is not the app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">In February 2026, four researchers published a systematic review in <em>Frontiers in Psychology<\/em> that set out to work out which was which. They followed PRISMA methodology across four databases and included 21 empirical studies, and the question they asked was direct: does AI in music education empower learners, or does it make them dependent?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The answer is that it does both. What the review cannot tell you is which one you get, because it did not test learner behavior as a moderator and the evidence base is nowhere near large enough to have done so. The rest of this is our reading of how to stay on the right side of it.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:0 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">What it does well, first<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The benefits in that review are not small and they are not vague.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Learners using AI support showed increased perceived competence. They felt more capable, though the review found their sense of who controlled their own progress did not move, a distinction that matters below. Motivation and engagement went up. And they showed more visible self-regulated learning behavior, which is the technical name for the cluster of habits that separates people who practice from people who put in time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Self-regulated learning is the interesting one. It is the skill nobody is there to teach you during the days between lessons, and it is the skill that determines whether those days are worth anything. If technology genuinely builds it, that is a strong argument for using these tools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">There is supporting evidence from other directions. A four-month study published in <em>Frontiers in Psychology<\/em> in October 2025 followed 40 violin majors at a conservatory in southern China, half using an AI-assisted practice app and half practicing conventionally, with the same classroom instruction and the same daily practice routine of three to five hours. The app group&#8217;s performance improved significantly while the comparison group&#8217;s drifted down slightly, by too little for the study to call it a real change, and the students were assigned to the two groups by convenience rather than at random. More striking, the app group&#8217;s confidence in their own performance rose while the comparison group&#8217;s belief in their own ability fell, which the authors attribute to the harder repertoire and technical demands students meet as a semester goes on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A three-level meta-analysis published in the <em>Journal of Intelligence<\/em> in July 2026 pooled the quantitative research and took three outcomes. It found its largest effect on motivation, a large but highly variable effect on creative performance, and no significant effect on self-regulated learning. Creative performance is the variable one, with a confidence interval running from very near zero up to a very large effect, which is what a small number of studies disagreeing with each other looks like. Self-regulated learning pointed positive and did not reach statistical significance, pooled from only four studies, so on the outcome this article cares about most the pooled evidence is not there yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">One honest caveat about that pairing: the meta-analysis and the systematic review share an author, so they are not two independent confirmations of each other. Treat them as two views from a partly overlapping vantage point rather than as corroboration.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">The four ways it goes wrong<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;margin:32px 0;\"><a class=\"btn-yellow type-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tunelark.com\/find-a-teacher\" style=\"display:inline-block !important;line-height:1.35;max-width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;background:#f4b643;color:#000000;padding:14px 32px;border-radius:999px;font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.06em;text-decoration:none;\">Find Your Music Teacher<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The same review that found those benefits also identified four distinct mechanisms by which support curdles into dependence. They are worth knowing by name, because each one has a different tell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Outsourcing evaluative authority.<\/strong> You stop deciding whether something was good and let the system decide. This is the foundational one, and the others tend to follow from it. The tell is that you finish a passage and look at the screen before you have formed an opinion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Inertia in cognitive participation.<\/strong> You keep using the tool, you would tell anyone who asked that it is useful, and you have quietly stopped acting on what it tells you. The review describes exactly this: learners who recognized a tool&#8217;s usefulness yet ignored its feedback. It is the one that hides best, because from the outside the practice session looks unchanged and the streak stays intact. The tell is that you cannot name the last thing the app told you that you actually did something about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Algorithm-accommodating self-censorship.<\/strong> The review saw this in creative work, where learners reshaped what they made to fit what the platform rewarded. The practice-room version, where you drop an expressive choice because the app marks it down even though it was musically right, is our extension of that finding rather than something the review measured, and rubato is the obvious candidate. The tell is that you have stopped doing something expressive because it kept getting flagged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Attributional shift.<\/strong> What the review measured here is narrower and stranger than the name suggests: learners reported rising confidence while their sense of who controlled their own progress did not move at all. The gains went up without ever being internalized. The version people describe in practice rooms, where the confidence drains away once the tool is gone, is our extension rather than something the review tested, and the tell is still worth having: you feel noticeably worse about your playing when you practice without the app, even though your playing has not changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Underneath those four the review also describes a task-design pathway, where goals bend toward whatever the system measures and you start practicing the thing that moves the number rather than the thing actually holding the piece back. It is worth watching for on its own terms, and the tell is that your practice priorities and your teacher&#8217;s priorities have quietly stopped matching. Taken together these are less separate risks than one risk with several entry points, and outsourcing your judgment is the door. Once the system is the thing that decides whether a passage was good, the rest tend to follow without anyone choosing them.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">The mismatch nobody talks about<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The review surfaced one finding that deserves more attention than it has had, because it cuts against how these tools are usually marketed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Different types of AI support different parts of the learning process, and they do not overlap the way you might assume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Assessment-oriented AI, the kind that listens and scores, most consistently strengthened learners&#8217; beliefs about their own ability, and supported self-monitoring and self-reflection. It is good at helping you watch yourself while you work and evaluate what happened afterward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Generative AI tended to improve learners&#8217; attitudes and their sense of the value of what they were doing, by lowering technical barriers and shifting their creative role toward aesthetic decision-making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">But the authors identify what they call a construct-tool mismatch: while assessment AI consistently supports self-reflection, generative AI currently lacks sufficient evidence for building forethought, the planning phase that happens before you start.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Forethought is the part where you decide what you are going to work on and why. It is the beginning of self-regulated learning and arguably the most important stage, because everything downstream depends on it. And it is the stage with the thinnest evidence that any of these tools help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Which points somewhere specific: the planning of your week is still a human job. Either yours or your teacher&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Age looks like it changes the answer<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Parents will want to weigh this part of the review, with its limits attached from the start.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Primary-age children and university students did not respond to the same tools in the same way. Younger learners tended to experience AI as a restrictive scoring referee, something sitting in judgment over them. Older students tended to treat it as an assistant they directed, deploying it strategically for their own purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Same technology, and on the face of it two different relationships carrying two different risk profiles. The caveat belongs before the conclusion rather than after it. One of the twenty-one studies was in primary education and one in secondary, and the review&#8217;s own authors write that the observed differences may be confounded by contextual factors, which weakens the reliability of age-based generalizations, and that any stage-related claims should be treated as provisional. So this is a contrast to watch for rather than a finding to plan a childhood around. A university student who chases a score is making a tactical error. A nine-year-old who experiences a machine as a referee may be learning something about music, and about themselves, that is harder to unlearn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The review is also explicit that the underlying research is concentrated in higher education and in China, and that early childhood settings were absent from it entirely. Nobody has properly studied what these tools do to very young children learning music. We wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/ai-music-apps-for-kids\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">what that means for parents<\/a> in its own article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A scoping review published in <em>Research Studies in Music Education<\/em> in June 2026, which screened 1,274 records down to 22 empirical studies, reports the same geographic and educational concentration. This is a young literature and it is not a representative one.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Scaffolding is supposed to come down<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The chapter on the ethics of AI in music education in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Music Education<\/em>, written by William I. Bauer and published in August 2026, organizes the field&#8217;s ethical questions into nine areas. One of them is dependency and skill development, sitting alongside data privacy, bias and equity, transparency, academic integrity, intellectual property, the evolving role of the educator, accessibility, and student voice and agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">It belongs on that list, and the framing tells you what the goal is. Scaffolding is a structure you put up so that something can be built, and then take down. A tool that is still holding you up after three years has stopped being scaffolding and started being a crutch, and the difference is not visible from inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">So the practical question is not whether to use these tools. It is whether your reliance on them is going down over time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Practice without it regularly.<\/strong> Not as a test, as a habit. Some part of every week should be you, the instrument and your own ears, with nothing keeping score.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Form your opinion before you look.<\/strong> Play the passage, decide whether it was good, then check the score. The order matters enormously. Doing it the other way round is what outsourcing looks like in practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Plan your own week.<\/strong> Given the evidence gap around forethought, decide what you are working on and why before you open anything. This is also the part your teacher can help with most, and the part <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/track-music-practice-progress-adult\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">tracking your own practice<\/a> makes visible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Reduce the support as you improve.<\/strong> Deliberately. The tool will not suggest this, because nothing is designed to make itself less necessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\"><strong>Watch for the expressive edits.<\/strong> If you have stopped doing something musical because it kept getting flagged, that is the third mechanism in its practice-room form, and the correct response is to keep doing the musical thing.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">What this means if you are learning alone<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Plenty of people are working through this without a teacher, and the honest thing to say is that this is where the risk concentrates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The mechanisms above are all versions of the same problem: nothing else is providing a second opinion. A teacher is the natural counterweight, because they are the other voice telling you whether something was good, and they are the one who can say &#8220;ignore what that thing told you, do it the other way.&#8221; Without that, the app is not one input among several. It is the only input, and everything it does not measure gradually stops existing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">If you are teaching yourself, the substitutes are recording yourself and listening back, playing for other people, and periodically checking your own reasoning against something other than the score. None of these are as good as a teacher, and it is worth being clear-eyed about that when weighing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/self-taught-guitar-vs-lessons\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">teaching yourself against taking lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Where we sit<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Tunelark uses AI across our own daily operations and we are building it into what we make. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/do-music-learning-games-work\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">practice games<\/a> are technology rather than AI, using structured progression and mastery checks to give students something concrete to do between lessons, and AI features may join them in time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">The reason a live teacher stays at the center is directly relevant to this review&#8217;s findings. A teacher is the thing that keeps the loop open: setting the goal at the start of the week, correcting the machine when it is wrong, and gradually handing more of the judgment back to the student as they become able to carry it. That handover is the entire point, and it is not something a tool can be expected to manage on its own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Our teachers describe the same aim. Alawna M., who teaches voice on Tunelark, builds a separate practice routine for each student, and what she wants from it is a student who is excited to work between sessions and can act as their own teacher when she is not there. Harry B., who teaches guitar, says the great teachers he has studied with were the ones who got their students to find the answers themselves, teaching a way of learning and not a list of instructions.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">The bottom line<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">A practice app can build your independence or quietly replace it, and the research finds both outcomes in the same body of studies. What decides which one you get is whether you keep making the judgment calls yourself, and whether your reliance on the tool is trending downward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Use it. Form your own opinion first. Practice without it often enough to know you still can. The wider picture is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/can-ai-replace-a-music-teacher\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">whether AI can replace a music teacher<\/a>. And keep somebody in the loop who can hear the things it cannot, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/blog\/what-ai-can-hear-when-you-practice\/\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">most of what makes music worth doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">How to Find a Music Teacher on Tunelark<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:0 0 18px;\">Tunelark connects you with deeply vetted music teachers who teach online across piano, guitar, voice, violin, drums and more. Vetting is run by working musicians and music teachers, not a general recruiter, and every teacher sets their own rate and shows it on their profile. Scheduling, billing and support are handled for you.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left:24px;margin:0 0 24px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\">Browse teachers for your instrument at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tunelark.com\/find-a-teacher\" style=\"color:#026D81;\">tunelark.com\/find-a-teacher<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\">Read their bios and watch their videos to see how they teach.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\">Book a trial lesson with the one who sounds right for you. It is $25 off that teacher&#8217;s 30-minute rate.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin-bottom:8px;\">How you feel afterward is the thing no system can measure for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"font-family:'PlayfairDisplay-Bold','Playfair Display',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;color:#026D81;margin:44px 0 14px;padding-bottom:8px;border-bottom:2px solid #F5BD52;\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Do practice apps make you dependent?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"They can, and a 2026 systematic review of 21 studies identified four specific mechanisms: handing over your own judgment, reshaping your work to fit what the system rewards, confidence that rises without ever becoming yours, and quietly ignoring the feedback while still using the tool. 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It is one of the best-supported predictors of whether practice time turns into progress, and it is the thing at stake in the whole independence question.\"}}]}<\/script><\/p>\n<details style=\"margin:12px 0;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-radius:6px;padding:12px 16px;\">\n<summary style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;cursor:pointer;color:#064B72;line-height:1.4;\">Do practice apps make you dependent?<\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:8px 0 0;\">They can, and a 2026 systematic review of 21 studies identified four specific mechanisms: handing over your own judgment, reshaping your work to fit what the system rewards, confidence that rises without ever becoming yours, and quietly ignoring the feedback while still using the tool. The review also describes goals bending toward whatever the system measures, which it places under task design rather than among the four. The same review found genuine benefits to competence and motivation, so dependence is a risk rather than an inevitability.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin:12px 0;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-radius:6px;padding:12px 16px;\">\n<summary style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;cursor:pointer;color:#064B72;line-height:1.4;\">How do I know if I am too reliant on a practice app?<\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:8px 0 0;\">Practice without it. If your playing has not changed but you feel notably worse about it, your confidence may have attached itself to the tool rather than to you. That reading goes a step past what the research measured, which was confidence rising without any matching shift in where learners located control of their own progress. It is still the cheapest check you can run on yourself.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin:12px 0;border:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-radius:6px;padding:12px 16px;\">\n<summary style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;cursor:pointer;color:#064B72;line-height:1.4;\">Are practice apps bad for kids?<\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro','Source Sans 3',-apple-system,Segoe UI,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#19394C;margin:8px 0 0;\">The evidence is thinner than for adults and points somewhere different. 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