Playground equipment-Screen Time with a Clear Conscience
Playground equipment-Screen Time with a Clear Conscience
Parents already know what studies now confirm: use of smart devices by children under the age of eight is exploding across the industrialized world. Childcare professionals and specialists are seeing increasing sedentary lifestyles as the result, and parents are wondering how to address the “screen time” dilemma.
“This is the world’s first playground with its very own app”, says Stig Mose Henriksen, Group Marketing Director for KOMPAN, the company that has developed the interactive SMART Playground™. “It combines the physical playground with a digital learning concept based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales; stories we all know like The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Tinderbox.”
Through QR codes placed on the playground equipment – or via the Apple or Android store - kids can download the Hans Christian Andersen Play Gate app. When the app is opened, a world of augmented reality appears, adding an extra dimension of characters and stories to the playground.
“The playground can, of course, be used without a smart device, but the option is there to really take advantage of kids natural love of technology, get them outdoors and create an environment where physical, social and intellectual learning take place,” says Stig Mose Henriksen, who explains that the app also contains the full version of the fairy tales in e-book format so parents can read the stories aloud. The app has a range of other functions like allowing parents or teachers to enjoy the storytelling e-books and other apps or setting up challenges specific to their child.
According to a 2013 study by the American advocacy group Common Sense Media, the average time spent by children under age eight each day on smart devices has tripled since 2011. This growing tendency was one of the reason’s KOMPAN developed the SMART Playground™ concept.
“Children living in industrialised countries lead increasingly sedentary lifestyles indoors interacting with technology rather than with peers and adult role models or playing outdoors,” says Jeanette Fich Jespersen of the KOMPAN Play Institute. “This kind of lifestyle impacts children’s physical, social and, not least, communication and language skills – all crucial parts of their development.”
According to the World Health Organization’s Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, children need to exercise at a moderate to vigorous level for at least 60 minutes every day and one of the best means to this is through outdoor play.
Parents already know what studies now confirm: use of smart devices by children under the age of eight is exploding across the industrialized world. Childcare professionals and specialists are seeing increasing sedentary lifestyles as the result, and parents are wondering how to address the “screen time” dilemma.
“This is the world’s first playground with its very own app”, says Stig Mose Henriksen, Group Marketing Director for KOMPAN, the company that has developed the interactive SMART Playground™. “It combines the physical playground with a digital learning concept based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales; stories we all know like The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Tinderbox.”
Through QR codes placed on the playground equipment – or via the Apple or Android store - kids can download the Hans Christian Andersen Play Gate app. When the app is opened, a world of augmented reality appears, adding an extra dimension of characters and stories to the playground.
“The playground can, of course, be used without a smart device, but the option is there to really take advantage of kids natural love of technology, get them outdoors and create an environment where physical, social and intellectual learning take place,” says Stig Mose Henriksen, who explains that the app also contains the full version of the fairy tales in e-book format so parents can read the stories aloud. The app has a range of other functions like allowing parents or teachers to enjoy the storytelling e-books and other apps or setting up challenges specific to their child.
According to a 2013 study by the American advocacy group Common Sense Media, the average time spent by children under age eight each day on smart devices has tripled since 2011. This growing tendency was one of the reason’s KOMPAN developed the SMART Playground™ concept.
“Children living in industrialised countries lead increasingly sedentary lifestyles indoors interacting with technology rather than with peers and adult role models or playing outdoors,” says Jeanette Fich Jespersen of the KOMPAN Play Institute. “This kind of lifestyle impacts children’s physical, social and, not least, communication and language skills – all crucial parts of their development.”
According to the World Health Organization’s Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, children need to exercise at a moderate to vigorous level for at least 60 minutes every day and one of the best means to this is through outdoor play.
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