Learning through games:
A recently launched edutainment app, has quickly gained one lakh young users, thanks to its canny mix of fun-n-games with some serious learning. SuperSchool, a free download for Android devices is the brainchild of management grads, brothers and cofounders Aditya and Arnav Mukherjee of the Delhi-based Toko Innovation Studios.
Thankfully free of advertisements, SuperSchool offers over 50 games including 'Alphabet Trace' for toddlers; 'Spell It Right', a spelling game for pre-schoolers; 'Wizard Math', a painless introduction to arithmetic; 'Grammar Flight', which uses balloons to help learn about nouns, verbs etc; 'Gigi's Piano' which helps unleash the musical talent of kids and 'Bank It' which inculcates the saving habit.
A number of spoken e-books as well as classic nursery rhymes round off the menu. A version for iOS and iPhone is getting ready. SuperSchool is currently free though some premium paid content may be added in the future.
Indian designers create a neat dispenser of measured liquid doses for children.
Take your medicine without any mess!
Ever tried giving liquid medicine to children? It can be a challenge. The doctor prescribes a spoonful -- or say 20 ml. You pour the right quantity of the medicine into the plastic measure provided. Get the child to take it -- without spilling. Then you have to rinse and wash the cup ... a lot of sticky work!
The India Innovation and Development Centre of Abbott, the pharma people, in Mumbai has created a cool tool to make all this very easy. It's called LiDoCon short for LiquidDosingConcept and comes in the form of a cap that fits on the neck of the bottle. You invert the bottle to fill the cap with a measured quantity and a valve prevents any backflow. The child can take the medicine straight off the bottle -- no cleanup required.
For starters Abbott has launched LiDoCon with one of its pediatric cough syrups in doses of 2.5 ml. But we can expect this to appear on more of their liquid formulations. And hey! don't stop with children's medicines. What about geriatric medicines for that second childhood?
The new Windows 10 Creators update launched this month has new and free family-friendly features.
Safe surfing in Cyberia!
All parents worry about protecting their children from inappropriate content on the Web. Windows has provided parental controls for many years; but the new 'Creators' update to Windows 10, that Microsoft is offering this month to legal users takes this process a step further. There is a special site called Microsoft Family which allows parents to add family members including children and create a separate profile for each of them. When parents add their child to the Microsoft Family and turn on activity reporting, they get weekly activity report emails that show a summary of their activity, including websites visited, games and apps used, terms searched for on search engines like Bing and how much screen time they had, even if they have logged in from a friend’s house or any other screen. You can schedule when your child can have screen time or when they must do their homework. You can set an "Ask parent" control when there is a doubt if a site or game is OK for your child. No one knows what lies out in Cyberia. But parents can at least ensure that their children have a safe surfing experience.
You can set an ‘Ask parent’ control if you are doubtful about a website or a game beingsuitable for your child. No one knows what lies out in Cyberia. But parents can at least ensure that their children have a safe surfing experience.
— IndiaTechOnline
