With the advent of educational apps for kids, parents and educators are rethinking the role of technology in education. Screen time is no longer a strict no-no. Some parents have allowed their kids to learn online with technology and artificial intelligence.
Let’s see some popular tips and tricks that can help your child ace through school:
- YouTube learning: YouTube videos have gained significant popularity for their educational videos and for bringing classrooms to the home. It is more accessible, free of cost, and caters to every student’s needs. Since YouTube videos depend highly on viewer feedback, the quality of these videos is assured over time. Talking about much younger kids, YouTube has a special feature called YouTube Kids, with some features restricted to protect the kids. YouTube can be a great learning tool for learning at one’s own pace. Since almost every subject and course tutorial is available on YouTube, learning anything is never too far.
- ABC Kids Learning Games: Alphabets, regardless of any language, are the first step to learning the language, and learning them correctly is important. These apps, full of lively colors, fun characters, and entertaining mini-games, make learning more enjoyable, gently introducing your child to the building blocks of language, letters, their sounds, and those first magical steps of word recognition. Your child may think they’re just having fun, but they’re actually learning important early literacy skills with each swipe and tap. And in no time, they’ll be masters of the alphabet. This will also help them with phonetics and make them learn how to speak more clearly and better.
- Letter tracing app: Writing is the second part of learning. It’s a mode of communication and can help your child express themselves better. These apps are built specifically to aid your child in learning how to write interactively with fun colors and shapes. Children love to write; that’s why you see them scribbling on the walls everywhere and getting so excited at the mere sight of crayons.
Just look out for a few features:
- Apps should be appropriate for your child’s developmental stage in both content and interaction.
- Numerous “free” apps inundate children with hidden fees or advertisements. Choose those with a one-time purchase model or no advertisements.
Let’s face it: screens are a permanent fixture in our lives. That need not be a negative thing. As parents, it cannot be easy to balance the need to shield our children from excessive technology with the understanding that, with careful use, those same gadgets can lead to amazing discoveries.
Giving someone a screen and turning away isn’t enough. It all comes down to selecting resources that encourage your child to investigate, inquire, and develop.
When carefully chosen, educational apps can foster confidence, curiosity, and a sincere love of learning in kids, whether they are using their fingers to trace letters, watching a science experiment, or proudly sounding out their first word.
At the end of the day, it’s not about screen time. Meaningful time is the key, and we can all take pride in that.