The DS is marketed primarily as a teaching toy, or one to help exercise the mind a personal handheld gaming device on which to solve puzzles and brainteasers.
We measured generalization, maintenance and parent reports of child happiness in the context of a behavioral intervention to teach toy-play skills to three young children with autism.
Bilingual education materials like textbooks, teaching tools and toys have been produced in ethnic minority languages, and preschool and primary teachers have been trained in mother tongue-based bilingual education techniques.
(Machulis recently shared an incredibly in-depth explanation of the issues with using porn to teach sex toys about sex).
You could play teach the toy!
The cart also has built-in toys teaching shapes or colors that kids can play with while they wait".
While the gamifying of coding and teaching programming through toys isn't new and, as Eliza pointed out, Play-i is entering a market already inhabited by products and startups like Cargo-Bot, Move the Turtle and Bee-Bot, this kind of computer science education is still relatively new.
Ms. Ostroff thinks the toys teach the children useful lessons: "She knows this is her little pet, she needs to take care of it, and when she's not available, she asks us to".
Dr Thorwell Jacobs, a professor at Oglethorpe University, is inspired by ancient Egyptian tombs to create a "crypt of civilization": a swimming-pool-size chamber buried beneath the school to hold a script of Gone with the Wind, recordings of world leaders, a machine meant to teach English, plastic toys and a "specially sealed ampule of Budweiser beer".
If games can teach us about high-level strategy, perhaps toys can teach us something about the daily operations that take up most of our time.
