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Can Digital Games Enhance Children’s Well-being?

by Bruce D. Homer, Jan L. Plass, & Fabian Froehlich
April 30, 2024

The importance of play for children’s development and learning has long been recognized by parents, educators and researchers.1 Much of our lives are now being lived in digital contexts, and

Digital Futures Commission to Launch Report, Playful by Design

by Al Mik
October 27, 2021

So often the digital world of children is stated in binaries – on or offline, good or bad actors, opportunity or harm – but the lived reality of children is

Building Connections Through Play

by Jill Vialet
September 20, 2021

The following excerpt is from Why Play Works: Big Changes Start Small by Jill Vialet and appears here courtesy of publisher Jossey-Bass. The book is designed to support schools, educators, and

It’s time to make the digital world playful by design!

by Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong
July 29, 2021

This post originally appeared on the Digital Futures Commission website and appears here with permission. Like everything else in their life, children’s play has shifted online almost by default due to

What Play Can Teach Us About Transitions

by Jill Vialet
September 21, 2020

This is a moment of unprecedented transition for the United States–and for the world more broadly. Reopening schools requires decisions based on incomplete information that must be made in an

Katie Salen Tekinbaş: The Future of Digital Play

by Katie Salen Tekinbaş
May 21, 2020

For the fourth part of this series, we asked experts to focus their predictions on digital play by answering the question, “How will the way children play with digital media

Tami Bhaumik: The Future of Digital Play

by Tami Bhaumik
May 21, 2020

For the fourth part of this series, we asked experts to focus their predictions on digital play by answering the question, “How will the way children play with digital media

Jesse Schell: The Future of Digital Play

by Jesse Schell
May 21, 2020

For the fourth part of this series, we asked experts to focus their predictions on digital play by answering the question, “How will the way children play with digital media

Bo Stjerne Thomsen: The Future of Play

by Bo Stjerne Thomsen
May 6, 2020

In this third installment of the series, we asked experts, “How will childhood play change in the coming months and/or years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic?” Play makes children

Makeda Mays Green: The Future of Play

by Makeda Mays Green
May 6, 2020

For Part 3 of the Voices on the Future of Childhood series, we asked experts to offer their insights and predictions on what play will—or better yet, should—look like when

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