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Schoolchildren make games for daycare children in Odense
Both big and small children are being equipped for a digital society
In a daycare centre in Odense in Denmark, the benefits of their WizeFloor are twofold. Here, fifth grade pupils from a nearby school have been trained in developing digital app games for daycare children, so the children can learn about right and left, colours and animals through play and movement. Developing an app is mostly reserved for people with an IT background – or just adults. But that is not the case at Paarup School, where the students from fifth grade have very successfully created an app for the day care children’s WizeFloor. The leader of Dagplejen Vest, Svend Besser Degn, thinks it is a good idea that the playing blocks are replaced with a screen for a while.
In the daycare, we talk a lot about how we want to prepare the children as best as possible for the society they are part of, and there is no way around the digital," he says.
They realise that digital technology can be used for other purposes than playing – they can actually work with it.
With the new initiative, both the daycare children and the school pupils develop their digital language.
The students visited to set the learning level
The purpose of the student app is to teach young children about right and left, colors and animals through movement, games and play. As part of the process, the fifth class has therefore visited the daycare in order to better assess how much the little ones actually understand.
"It must be age-appropriate for how old they are. We are used to something a little more difficult, says student Maja Lundsgaarde
The purpose of the student app is to teach young children about right and left, colors and animals through movement, games and play. As part of the process, the fifth class has therefore visited the daycare in order to better assess how much the little ones actually understand.
The success must be repeated - and sooner than planned
As part of the process, the fifth class has therefore visited the daycare in order to better assess how much the little ones actually understand. Student Ida Kruse Haagensen is delighted.
“I am really proud. It's great to see the kids get excited playing it. I feel good that they can get something out of it and learn a lot from all the things we've done - so they can also use it when they go to school and kindergarten."
Both the day care and the school think that the collaboration has been such a great success that they are already talking about doing it twice a year instead of once.
Watch these nice features on TV2/FYN (watch from 18:25) and TV2 Nyhederne, where 5th-grade schoolchildren from Paarup Skole make WizeFloor games for the children at Dagplejen Vest from Odense. Fyens Stiftstidende has also written an article about collaboration.
