Our children will live and work in an Information Age that we can only imagine. As they master the basic skills of the three R’s, they must also develop a broader, higher-level set of thinking skills that will transfer to the content of the future.
Edmark's Thinkin’ Things Collection 1: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon is designed to offer young students experiences with a variety of thinking skills: memory, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity. Thinkin’ Things Collection 1 celebrates intellectual diversity. A student’s musical and rhythmic intelligence may shine when working with Toony the Loon and his xylophones, or visual and spatial intelligence in creating with BLOX, or logical and mathematical intelligence with the Fripple Guides and Feathered Friends. In areas that may not come as naturally to some children, Thinkin’ Things Collection 1 offers warm, friendly experiences in which self-confidence is built, exploration and creativity are fostered, and persistence is rewarded with success.
This is a useful tool to help children develop their thinking abilities. The only disadvantage that I see in this is that children will spend a lot of time in front of their home computers, instead of playing with friends outdoors.