Bringing your Lego kit to the restaurant is a little tricky, and so maybe an iPad is more convenient. Kids get super-bored after fifteen minutes at a restaurant, whereas parents want to sit for another two hours.
Obvious benefits are that it’s portable, so we do very well on airplanes or dinners, for that matter - situations where parents need to occupy their children. It’s just a new way to play, so it has its benefits and its drawbacks. I don’t think we are going to digitize all play, and it wasn’t our goal, either. The purpose is not to complete games or progress through levels, but instead work within the parameters set to participate in imaginative, open-ended play. Started in 2010 in Sweden, Toca Boca create digital environments. (See the recent discussion associated with Coolmaths and Chromebooks) A company trying to counter this focus on consumption is Toca Boca. Although I would not consider myself as being a part of the anti-gamer community, I think that there are some which are more prone to consuming our attention, rather than creativity and critical thinking. This is supposedly in lieu of supposed ‘real work’.
I often hear teachers complain that all students do on tablets is play games.
Toca Boca is a suite of applications that provides spaces within which to explore and play.
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