Our two and a half year old loves playing with Garage Band on an iPad. He can identify a snare, a kick drum, a high-hat, and knows the sonic differences between a grand piano, a clav, and an electric piano. He has a sense of major and minor chords. More importantly, he recognizes these differences when he listens to the radio, far away from the iPad, identifying jazz and classical music and (usually) screaming out, ‘That’s a KICK drum!’
Is there an educational platform for kids that can live on an iPad? Gregory Hansell thinks so. He’s running an IndieGoGo campaign for a tablet game called A Better World for Kids — Finally, a Game for Good. It’s, as he describes it in his pitch, a mobile game teaching values like kindness, giving, anti-bullying, recycling, and healthy eating. I asked him to answer a view questions about the game, and the campaign, via email.