The more I talked with the developers, the more elusive and unhelpful the Education category seemed. Buckleitner calls his conference Dust or Magic to teach app developers a more subtle concept than pedagogy. By magic, Buckleitner has in mind an app that makes childrens fingers move and their eyes light up. By dust, he means something that was obviously designed by an adult. Some educational apps, I wouldnt wish on the naughtiest toddler. Take, for example, Counting With the Very Hungry Caterpillar, which turns a perfectly cute book into a tedious app that asks you to please eat 1 piece of chocolate cake so you can count to one.
Before the conference, Buckleitner had turned me on to Noodle Words, an app created by the California designer and childrens-book writer Mark Schlichting. The app is explicitly educational. It teaches you about active verbsspin, sparkle, stretch. It also happens to be fabulous. You tap a box, and a verb pops up and gets acted out by two insect friends who have the slapstick sensibility of the Three Stooges. If the word is shake, they shake until their eyeballs rattle. I tracked down Schlichting at the conference, and he turned out to be a little like Maurice Sendaklike many good childrens writers, that is: ruled by id and not quite tamed into adulthood. The app, he told me, was inspired by a dream hed had in which he saw the word and floating in the air and sticking to other words like a magnet. He woke up and thought, What if words were toys?
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