Also, sites like Nickelodeon’s “The Big Help” and Recyclebank assign real-world rewards for eco-friendly actions.
“Instant access to people, information and possibilities reinforces young users’ confidence and interest in self-development,” explains the study.
“One of the sweet spots we see clearly is content and game elements that flow seamlessly between screen space and physical space, and which have the ability to change the ‘real world’ for the better–for instance, online games that generate real currency to help solve societal problems or games that use social motivators and accountability to influence personal behaviors in health, energy use, and so on,” explains Mushkin.
Read Latitude’s blog posts discussing the findings of the study at the following links: http://www.latd.com/2011/06/14/study-kids-are-the-royal-road-to-tech-innovation/ and http://www.latd.com/2011/06/24/study-kids-say-the-future-of-tech-is-robots-real-world-integration/.
Latitude also just launched a new study in partnership with Project Synthesis and the LEGO Learning Institute called Robots@School, to further extend some of the present study’s findings.
Links:
“Children’s Future Requests for Computers & the Internet” (PDF)
Latitude’s Kids Innovation and Discovery Studies (KIDS)
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