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Review title: This is education?
Product review: I got this thing working with some difficulty, whereupon my 3 year old daughter and I played with it for a half hour or so. I would say that it is actually somewhat LESS entertaining than watching the normal, broadcast versions of the shows from which its content is taken.But here's the real problem: it seems we've somehow come to define "education" as "learning to give the specific desired responses to certain questions". Is my daughter being "educated" when she correctly identifies the sound an elephant makes? I don't think so.You know what's educational? Play Doh. Blocks. A ball. My daughter learns more in five minutes spent looking at a patch of grass in the backyard than she could in a decade spent with InteracTV.I have a new rule of thumb about "educational" toys. If it needs batteries, you're probably not going to learn much from it. Except maybe how expensive batteries are.
