{"id":16353,"date":"2019-10-25T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=16353"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:15","slug":"gamified-childhood-are-digital-devices-replacing-traditional-playtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/25\/gamified-childhood-are-digital-devices-replacing-traditional-playtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamified childhood: Are digital devices replacing traditional playtime?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blocks, books and bikes used to be the staples of childhood.\u00a0But as more kids grow up with a seemingly endless menu of virtual activities offered through digital media, child development experts worry about the wane of\u00a0traditional playtime<\/a>. Jenny Radesky<\/strong>, a pediatrician at U-M’s\u00a0C.S. Mott Children\u2019s Hospital, who is addressing the topic at the\u00a0national American Academy of Pediatrics meeting\u00a0in New Orleans, has even coined the phenomenon \u201cgamified childhood\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFree, unstructured play promotes interactions that boost vocabulary, nurture parent-child relationships, and encourage social skills and creativity. Play helps young brains develop,\u201d says\u00a0Radesky, who is leading the AAP session. \u201cBut mobile devices are becoming an almost unavoidable part of children\u2019s worlds. We hope to demystify the design differences between technology and classic toys and help parents increase open-ended play experiences for their children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blocks, books and bikes used to be the staples of childhood.\u00a0But as more kids grow up with a seemingly endless menu of virtual activities offered through digital media, child development experts worry about the wane of\u00a0traditional playtime. Jenny Radesky, a pediatrician at U-M’s\u00a0C.S. Mott Children\u2019s Hospital, who is addressing the topic at the\u00a0national American Academy of Pediatrics meeting\u00a0in\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[289,217,45,198,65],"class_list":["post-16353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-children","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-gaming","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280.jpg",850,478,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-200x112.jpg",200,112,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-768x432.jpg",665,374,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-700x394.jpg",600,338,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280.jpg",850,478,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280.jpg",850,478,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1028181280.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Blocks, books and bikes used to be the staples of childhood.\u00a0But as more kids grow up with a seemingly endless menu of virtual activities offered through digital media, child development experts worry about the wane of\u00a0traditional playtime. Jenny Radesky, a pediatrician at U-M’s\u00a0C.S. Mott Children\u2019s Hospital, who is addressing the topic at the\u00a0national American Academy…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16358,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions\/16358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}