Preneur World March 2024

expert
advice
How To Navigate
Your Child’s Digital
Learning Experience
Children’s exposure to digital based
technologies is inevitable – so how can
parents make the best of it as a platform
to benefit a young child’s learning and
development?
Dr Jacqueline Harding
MA, Cert Ed, SFHEA
EDURINO, the innovative digital
learning brand, offers an engaging
educational experience for children
aged 4 and above. At the heart
of the EDURINO series are its
digital learning games, seamlessly
blending technology with tactile
interaction. With an app (once
downloaded all the content is
totally internet free), an intuitively
designed pen, and charming
character figurines, EDURINO
delivers a captivating offline
learning journey.
From literacy to numeracy, coding,
creativity, plants, wildlife and body
parts, EDURINO allows children
to delve into challenges and games
without the need for connectivity.
Each adorable character focuses
on a specific subject, meticulously
crafted to unlock educational
content aligned with age
appropriate learning objectives.
Learn more at edurino.co.uk
With any digital
platform it is
quite simply
about ‘quality’
over ‘quantity’
In a child’s early years, the
developing brain is particularly
receptive to new experiences
and on the look-out for new
information. Children have a thirst
for understanding how the world
works and that also includes the
digital environment.
THE BRAIN THAT LOVES TO
PLAY
Children are surrounded by
technology from their earliest
years, so they need the skills to
fully function in a future digital
world. Developmentally speaking,
children are driven to be active
rather than passive in all forms of
play and this is also true within
the digital environment. And the
brain that loves to play is delighted
by interactivity.
The bottom line is that with any
digital platform it is quite simply
about ‘quality’ over ‘quantity’.
Developmentally sensitive
digital learning platforms now
play a core part in children’s
education and can help them to
learn independently. This could
explain why more than a quarter
of parents of new reception class
starters in a recent Edurino poll
said they purchased a digital
device ahead of their child starting
school; and why parents actively
seek screen time for their children
to support their education. In fact,
the poll found that more than a
third of primary school parents
said they were willing to increase
screen time if it helps their child
to learn new skills.
PLAYFUL LEARNING FOR
YOUNG MINDS
We need to encourage children to
develop digital literacy in ways
that are both playful and make
best use of the brain that loves to
play.
In today’s world, it’s impossible to
imagine life without digital media,
children are growing up with it
– and they have the potential to
become digital creators, not just
consumers!
Here are seven practical tips to
help navigate your child’s digital
learning.
1. BE ‘IN THE KNOW’
Become familiar with the digital
games your child is playing, so
you can chat to them about the fun
they are having.
2. LAUGH AND HAVE FUN
Enjoy character-driven games,
and embrace the interactivity and
the humour together, the learning
embedded within the content will
happen naturally.
3. BREAKS
Encourage your child to put their
screens down at regular intervals.
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