Abidin’s Stories with Smart Toys:
Abidin gives parents an opportunity to improve their children’s cognitive development with a brand new approach. With a dynamic story and interactive toys, Abidin is an innovative product. It is innovative in the means of both technical and educational aspects. Abidin is played with physical toys that are interactive with the screen of tablets and smartphones.(SMART TOYS will be on the stores soon) Stories and games are designed and developed by experts aiming to give children preschool education curriculum with universal topics.
The innovative features of Abidin are;
-Dynamic Story Base
-Smart Toy Library
-Cognitive Development Tracking Tool
-Interaction with Physical Toys
Abidin encourages children to create their own stories with the decisions they make within the game. It also lets them to use smart toys (numbers, figures with different colors, animals, outfits, cars, aquariums, gardening tools, etc.) while making those decisions, which makes this project a first when it comes to bringing a tablet game with a dynamic storyline and smart toys together as an educational tool for preschool children
The interaction of children with the digital technology became a popular issue in today’s world. Parents and educators are seeking solutions to the problems raised with the prolonged usage of tablets/smartphones. Prolonged usage of tablets/smart phones may cause; difficulties in perspective, distance and the location cognition of objects in 3-D environment during childs growth, affects the muscular and skeletal development of children. Games and videos with inappropriate content may have effects on children such as fear, aggression and early puberty.
Abidin, on the other hand is designed by preschool educators to eliminate those problems and let children learn while having fun. It consists of educational stories for children aged 4-8. With this appropriate content; parents can leave their child unattended with their tablets without worrying. Stories contribute to the emotional and cognitive development of children. With the use of interactive toys accompanied by stories, children posture is kept from disorders. The use of toys that can be hand-held together with educational applications contributes to the spatial development of children. So Abidin is changing a big question of “How can we keep children away from tablets/smart phones?” to “How can we use the advantages of digital technology to contribute to children’s cognitive development?”