Voices on the Future of Childhood: The Future of Digital Play

For the third installment of this series, we asked experts to predict how children’s play will change in the coming months and years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But because there were even more voices we wanted to capture, we decided to create a second set of posts focusing on children’s digital play. We asked our experts: 

How will—or should—the way children play with digital media change in the future due to the current pandemic? How can design cultivate kids’ physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive wellbeing through future forms of digital play?

Click the thumbnails below to read what they had to say:

 

• • Voices on the Future of Childhood: An overview by Lori Takeuchi
  • Part 1: One thing that must be done now
  • Part 2: What will change as a result of the pandemic
  • Part 3: The future of play
  • Part 4: The future of digital play
  • Part 5: Back to school
  • Part 6: Diversity, Belonging, and Racial Justice