Cinekid's Hot and Cool 2014 Panel
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Channel: Children's Technology Review · 2014 · Education
Willow Mellbratt, Toca Boca Adriaan de Jongh, Game Oven Studios Bethany Koby-Hirschmann, Technology Will Save Us PRODUCTION NOTES Recorded on Saturday, October 19, 2014 Rough camera transition for the last speaker (main camera ran out of storage and we switched to a phone) KEY TRENDS Store Wars iTunes vs. Google Play vs. amazon.com Amazon’s Kid’s Tablet vs. the iPad Mini and iPad Air 2. Minecraft = $2.5 Billion? Notch did it, LEGO couldn’t. Why? Higher Quality & Quantity Lots of fair and good products. Apple says current iPads can now run 675,000 apps; of which we estimate 20% are related to children. Bigger, cheaper, connected screens Maker Mania Kits, robotics, programming apps, stop motion, Scratch Jr, Oculus & 3D printing. We have to put the Piaget into the Maker Movement…. the active learner. Going Global (Food, Housing, Medicine … and Apps). A Changing Conversation, from Screentime to Apps & experiences; and the cultural assimilation
