My Kids Turn
My colleagues and I are involved in one of the most interesting and exciting projects we’ve ever done at ESSDACK, and yet at the same time one of the scariest we’ve ever done at ESSDACK. We are creating a website, My Kids Turn, that is designed to assist parents in helping their kids learn things that are important to them to succeed in school, and hopefully life.
We will have webcasts that help parents of primary school kids, three and four-year-olds, learn to read and work mathematically. We’ll have the same kind of webcasts designed for kids that are in primary grades, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
We’ll have another series of webcast for parents to understand what it means for their kids to grow up digital. To have the kinds of electronic tools that, as kids, the parents didn’t have. It’s very scary for parents to see their kids have access to technology and tools that they the parents didn’t have as kids and may not even understand as an adult.
Related to the digital tools we will also have a series of webcasts on video gaming. For many parents this is an even scarier proposition than the digital tools. At least the parents use digital tools in their everyday life, so they have some understanding of them. But many parents have never even played the kinds of video games that kids love to play today. So these webcasts are designed to help parents make decisions about which games to allow their kids to play, how long to allow them to play, and what the educational benefits are of the games.
So stay tuned for mykidsturn.com that will be launched in late January or early February 2010 with these and many other webcast for parents. If you have questions or comments please leave them below, I’d love to correspond with you.
