{"id":6619,"date":"2015-08-12T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs.html\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2015-08-12T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:18:55","slug":"long-summer-days-interactive-educational-games-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blogs\/long-summer-days-interactive-educational-games-to-the-rescue.html","title":{"rendered":"Long Summer Days? Interactive Educational Games to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although children are starting to head back to school, summer is still in full swing.\u00a0The long summer days challenge parents of young children with the task of keeping them busy and involved. It can be difficult to find activities that are both enjoyable and entertaining while also constructive, beneficial and safe. This can be particularly challenging for parents of toddlers and elementary school students who are constantly absorbing knowledge and at a formative time of learning. Parents might consider interactive educational games as a constructive way to keep their young children engaged, mentally active, entertained and learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

There has been much commentary among parents and schools around certain benefits young people may get from interactive video games, such as motor skills, computer skills, memory, attention and reasoning,<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Scott Steinberg cited to ABC News in 2011 a<\/span> study from the Education Development Cente<\/span><\/a>r and the U.S. Congress-supported Ready To Learn (RTL) Initiative, which found that educational programs that involve digital media (like video games) could improve early literacy skills when paired with strong parent and teacher involvement. \u201cYoung children, and 4- and 5-year-olds who participated showed increases in letter recognition, sounds association with letters, and understanding basic concepts about stories and print.\u201d The key for this study was having high-quality educational titles, along with parents and teachers who were equally invested in the subject matter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> Stanford School of Medicine Interactive Learning Initiatives<\/span><\/a> states \u201cGeneration Y is the first generation to grow up with constant exposure to digital media. Research shows these \u2018digital natives\u2019 learn far more in an interactive, collaborative environment. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been great strides beyond just interactive video games to create interactive educational games specifically designed to improve basic learning skills, increase a knowledge base and improve success in school.<\/span><\/p>\n

The wide acceptance and use of high-speed Internet access has made the benefits of online activity obvious, and these benefits extend to<\/span> online interactive games<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although children are starting to head back to school, summer is still in full swing.\u00a0The long summer days challenge parents of young children with the task of keeping them busy and involved. It can be difficult to find activities that are both enjoyable and entertaining while also constructive, beneficial and safe. This can be particularly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[102,96,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.turtlediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Online-Interactive-Games.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlediary.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}