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6 Tips Children Can Use to Create Great Digital Content
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Stories have a transformative power to bring people together and garner empathy. Digital storytelling encourages children to become content creators rather than passive consumers. It allows them to weave text, images, and music to create content that can resonate with many.
If your kid is interested in digital storytelling, here are 6 tips to get them started.
moreHow to Raise Caring, Respectful, and Ethical Children?
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Human development research shows that humans have seeds of care, empathy, and compassion from the time they’re born. However, if you want your child to become an ethical and caring person, you must help them in every stage of their growth and water those seeds so that the plant germinates into a strong tree by the time your children are mature.
Here are 3 ways you can raise caring, respectful, and ethical children.
moreImportance of Robotics in STEAM Education for Multisensory Learning for Your Child
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Robotics and AI are becoming buzz words in our tech-driven world, but our understanding of these is very limited. We link robotics to self-driven cars and chatbots.
While these inventions are important in our lives, the benefits robotics have to offer in bringing the new era of STEAM education can outweigh them.
moreNon-Verbal Reasoning: What is it all about?
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Brainstorming: Why it's Important Before Writing
It's the process of generating creative ideas and writing them down before preparing the final draft. Brainstorming eliminates restrictions; it lets your kids spills out what they think. It allows them to express freely. learn more about it below:
moreA Skill That Matters: 3 Ways to Teach Storytelling to Your Child
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During these trying times of isolation and separation because of the coronavirus, everyone — especially children — need to connect with the community, build relationships, and cultivate a sense of self. As parents, you can restore your child’s sense of belonging and self through multivariate...
morePlayfulness, Imagination, and Creativity: Importance of Creative Expression Among Children
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When we think about creative expression, most of us think about the outcome — an attention-grabbing story, a beautiful song, or a picturesque painting. But the creative expression isn't just about the product. Its process is doubly important.
COMPUCHILD kid's education franchise believes that creativity is a journey to foster originality, imagination, productivity, and problem-solving skills. Therefore, it makes creative expression even more important in childhood. Here's why.
moreBenefits of Animation on Your Child's Brain
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A lot has been written about how visual communication tends to be more effective than the text based communication. The appetite for consuming information through video-based content has been growing exponentially. As a result, there has been significant emphasis on animation, which has now become a vehicle to foster learning and plays a significant role in a child's development. But how does it do that?
The animation consists of rapidly changing...
moreWays To Improve Your Child's Communication Skills
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10% of the students in secondary school have long-term persistent speech, language and communication needs which hinder their ability to engage with education. This is why, communication's fundamental for a child's development.
moreStrategies and Smiles — Benefits of Playing Board Games During the Holidays
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At COMPUCHILD, we believe that STEAM and entrepreneurship education programs is vital to teaching modern technical skills. However, we also understand that unplugging is essential.
How do you ensure that your children are learning offline? Play board games with them! Board games offer a plethora of benefits. They enable you to have conversations with your kids, let your kids improve their strategic thinking, and boost their cognitive abilities and confidence. Here are 4 benefits of playing board games.
more5 Ways to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills
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Communication skills are vital for children to succeed in life. It isn't limited to the ability to talk. Instead, communication also involves listening, writing, and interpreting verbal and non-verbal cues.
While excellent communication skills come naturally to some children, many children struggle to make themselves understood. Here are 5 ways you can polish your child's communication skills.
moreTop 3 Reasons to Provide Robotics Education for Your Child
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Technological developments are emerging at an exponential rate in the modern world. Every time we scroll through our social media feeds or have a look at the news, there is something about a latest technological advancement related to new electronic and smart devices being developed or introduced to the public.
moreInclusion and Equality Through STEAM Programs for Kids
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When it comes to digital literacy, schools with higher budgets can provide better facilities to their students, leaving low-income schools behind.
moreSupport Children's Science Learning With These Tips
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Following these tips, you can support children's science learning:
moreNurture Critical Thinking Through DIY Games
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In today's technologically advanced and rapidly changing world, children should be equipped to absorb data and use critical thinking skills to compare, contrast, analyze, and solve complex problems. While innovative STEM classes for kids can play a significant role in doing that, parents should use different ways to nurture their kids' critical thinking skills. This blog highlights 2 DIY games that'll help you engage your kid in a healthy thinking exercise.
moreIntroduction To Machines: What Your Kids Need To Know
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Children's are curious; they're keen on experimenting and learning new, interesting things. Machines are a contributing factor toward development and progress. Let your child know how they help make our lives easier and comfortable. Here are the simple ones to start with:
moreLego® for Learning: 10 Ways to Use Lego® ® in the Classroom
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Ever wondered what good a couple of eight-stud Lego® bricks can do? A lot more than you can think! To begin, six eight-stud Legos® can create more than 915 million different combinations. It means that there are millions of opportunities for your child to learn.
According to UNICEF, play is a crucial element in your child’s development, providing essential literacy and numeracy skills in their early years. Play is meaningful, joyful, actively engaging, iterative,...
moreThe Importance of Learning Computer Science Skills for Young Children
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Computer science is future-proof, they say, and we’d agree. With a world that’s moving toward robotics, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and space exploration, it’s no wonder that the field is burgeoning.
It’s already being estimated, for example, that computer science graduates will have...
moreReasons for Lack of Concentration and Focus Among Schoolchildren
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“My son/daughter isn’t paying attention in class” is a common enough complaint—one that educationists and teachers hear all the time. An attention deficit, a lack of focus, and slow work completion are all issues that commonly plague kids—and bother their parents.
moreSkills Your Kids Can Learn During Lockdown
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According to the UN, 188 countries have imposed countrywide school closures, affecting more than 1.5 billion children and youth.
With children stuck at home and parents forced to work from home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, it has been challenging to find creative and productive ways to keep them engaged.
Here's what you can do to keep them occupied.
moreHow Programming Robots in STEM Programs is Helping Prepare Kids for the Future
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We have a gnarly understanding of robots—mostly thanks to Hollywood. From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld, people have been conditioned to think that robots are necessarily evil. Then there’s Stephen Hawking warning us against the advent of Artificial Intelligence.
moreMoney Talk—Teaching Kids About Money
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A number of people say that giving money to children isn’t a great idea—but does that mean you shouldn’t talk to them about it either?
more5 Tips to Help Your Child Build Their Focus Skills
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One of the biggest issues faced by school-going children is the inability to concentrate. The inability to focus on schoolwork and pay attention in class is becoming prevalent among young children. It has left their parents wondering what’s causing it and how they can fix it.
moreScience: Why Children Need To Learn It
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Children are always curious about the things happening around them. From a moon that shines to a butterfly that flies, they keep wondering what makes things behave a certain way.
Here are the reasons why children need to learn it:
more3 Science Experiments for Inquisitive Young Kids
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Studies have shown that what children learn at home has a greater impact on their intellectual abilities and stays with them for longer than what they learn at school and other educational institutions. Even though children are unable to go to school due to the pandemic, there intellectual growth and learning shouldn’t stop.
Focusing on STEM subjects is important as it encompasses...
more5 New Skills Your Kids Can Learn While Being Stuck at Home
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One of the biggest challenges faced by parents in the United States and Canada as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the extended closure of schools. With children stuck at home and parents forced to work from home to prevent the spread of the viral infection, it has been difficult to...
more3 Ways to Make Screen Time More Productive for Your Kids
Kids these days are spending more time in front of screens than ever before. According to the Ontario Student Health survey, children in grades 7 to 12 in Canada spend up to seven hours a day in front of screens, including televisions, computers, smartphones, and other gadgets.
There has been a lot of research on how...
moreReasons to invest in children's education franchise
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According to the US census bureau, the number of children expected to increase around 80.3 million by 2030. Parents are continuously striving to provide education to their children, making interactive classes and enrichment programs even more important and worthwhile. Here's why owning children's education franchise is a great idea:
moreThe Evolution of COMPUCHILD
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In the Beginning, COMPUCHILD was founded to meet a specific need...to get kids prepared for success at school. Upon entering elementary school, kids started using computers at school. Our founder realized that preschoolers were at a considerable advantage if they started working on computers prior to heading off to elementary school. Most families did not have computers at home and most child care centers and preschools did not have computers for their kids to use. Our basic computer classes were perfect to meet the needs of thousands of kids. We provided students with an easy...
moreSTEAM Cart
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STEM education has been in the news for quite some time, and has proven to help children become critical thinkers and problem solvers. More recently educators have added Art to the acronym, now STEAM.
STEAM activities allow children to explore their surroundings and create solutions while learning Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. This integrated learning process encourages critical thinking and helps children think like scientists, engineers and designers.
COMPUCHILD incorporates the all five STEAM disciplines into our classes, but you can encourage STEAM...
morePokémon GO - Privacy and Safety of Children
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Pokémon GO! This little app, based on the huge franchise of video games, card games, and cartoons, has become insanely popular. The game appeals to a variety of ages. Parents with little ones, teens, pre-teens, adults. Everyone is going crazy for this game.
Pokémon GO is an augmented reality game that requires an internet connection with GPS tracking and movement in the real world. Parents need to know that playing the game involves various safety and security issues.
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First, there are numerous privacy concerns. A player's name and location...
moreFamily Technology Rules: Kid's Expectations for Parents
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Do you have technology rules for your kids? Chances are you do. Most families have rules like ‘don’t text and drive’ or ‘no device at the dinner table’
A small study conducted by the University of Michigan and University of Washington, studied 249 parent-child pairs across 40 states. Their paper was presented March 2 at the Association for Computing Machinery’s conference on...
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