PLAYS™ Evaluate
A practical entry point for parents and educators to reflect on apps, games, videos and other digital experiences.
- Five-principle reflection
- Parent and educator resources
- Future premium evaluation reports
The organisation
About PLAYS Learning Innovations
A child-development-led platform for improving the quality of children’s digital experiences.
The organisation
Better digital experiences begin with understanding the child.
We help organisations, educators, designers and researchers make children’s digital experiences meaningful, developmentally appropriate, inclusive and safe. Our work is grounded in PLAYS: A Framework for Digital Play™.
Our work is organised around three connected pillars: PLAYS™ Evaluate for families and educators; PLAYS™ Audit + Creator for organisations developing digital products; and PLAYS™ Train for professionals and institutions. Research, licensing, credentials and original content expand this foundation as the methodology and market mature.
A child-development-led platform advancing meaningful, inclusive and safe digital experiences for children through assessment, professional learning, research, design and advisory.
Three connected pillars
A practical route from assessment to improvement
The first institutional offer is the PLAYS™ Digital Play Quality Audit – Institutional Pilot Edition: a structured, evidence-led review that helps organisations understand strengths, identify gaps and improve children’s digital experiences.
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PLAYS™ Audit + Creator
The core organisational service: assess existing products and support teams to improve them.
- Quick Review and Comprehensive Audit
- Design Review and Institutional Audit
- Improvement roadmap and advisory
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PLAYS™ Train
Build capability to apply the framework across product, content, education and institutional settings.
- Workshops and cohort programmes
- Practitioner learning pathway
- Future assessor development
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Introductory video by Dr. Jayanti Prakash
An introductory video by Dr. Jayanti Prakash sharing the vision behind PLAYS Learning Innovations and the framework.
The foundation of PLAYS
A child development lens for digital play.
The PLAYS framework adopts a child development lens. It recognises that children’s developmental stages, abilities, interests and contexts shape how they engage with digital play.
This lens informs how the framework considers the purpose, design, use and suitability of digital play experiences.
Our foundation: PLAYS: A Framework for Digital Play™ — created by Dr. Jayanti Prakash.
More about PLAYS
- Why PLAYSWhy meaningful digital play matters. The PLAYS framework adopts a child development lens to help ask better questions about the experiences we design and how we assess their quality.Read more
- About the AuthorDr. Jayanti Prakash is a child development and education specialist, researcher and systems leader, and the creator of PLAYS: A Framework for Digital Play™.Read more
- The PLAYS FrameworkFive principles for meaningful digital play. PLAYS: A Framework for Digital Play™ adopts a child development lens for understanding, designing and evaluating digital play experiences.Read more
“The goal is not simply to reduce children's digital lives. It is to make those experiences more worthy of their time.”
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