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• Title: Combining Digital Media and Unstructured, Outdoor Play in Order to Foster Healthy Child Development
• Author : Amy Dwyer Peck
• Release Date : January 22, 2013
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Reference,Study Aids,Health, Mind & Body,Psychology,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 5733 KB

Description

More and more, children are spending time indoors in front of a television, computer or electronic gaming device. They are not spending time outside playing and interacting with other children and the natural world around them. Another aspect limiting children's opportunities for unstructured, outdoor play is their parent’s fear of the outside world, and a need to over-schedule, creating perfectly controlled environments for their children. “We are living in a time where parents may have to facilitate outdoor play for it to happen, but once they get their children started, they need to step back and leave them alone” (Marano, “Why Parents Should Stop Overprotecting Kids and Let Them Play…” 434). Imaginative, unstructured play is critical for children in becoming socially adept, building cognitive skills such as problem solving, and dealing with stress. It is through play that children engage and interact with the world around them. This research offers a way to combine digital media and unstructured, outdoor play through a mobile application called OhSnap! It provides children with a way to meet up with their neighborhood friends and play games that combine the use of their iPods outdoors. It also provides a tool for their parents to oversee their daily activities and participate in their child’s outdoor play adventures with their own mobile phone or device.

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