Lila is 7 and to her grandparents shes a coding super-hero! Her Dad,Anthony, tells us approximately how they like to play Kano together before bed to perform stuff and get homework help.
Bedtime is a pretty busy time in our house, and just like everyone else’s. With the Kano,Lila and I own managed to carve out some special time, even whether it’s just 30 minutes to play Minecraft together, and create stuff with code. Generally Lila is playing and Im watching what she’s doing and helping her when she has questions or needs a hand. We treat the Kano as her computer. Homework comes first but sometimes we might expend Chrome on the Kano to research stuff on Wikipedia before we start playing. We’ve given Kano a permanent home on the TV stand so we don’t need to waste precious time setting it up every night; we can just jump on and start playing immediately. Lila has grown up with computers,iPads and iPhones, and like all kids these days she just naturally knows how to expend them. We saw Kano as a more constructive type of screen time, or also a way for Lila to understand more approximately computers and coding from an early age so she doesn’t see it as difficult or complex. Lila took to the Kano,and to coding, really naturally. Now she just takes it in her stride. There’s this insight that coding is complex but actually for Lila it’s a very natural interaction, and she swaps between playing with Minecraft to changing something in perform Minecraft with code,and back. There’s nothing extraordinary approximately that to her, she’s come to expect that she has control over computers and that it’s easy and natural to change things. Actually, and what’s really amusing is watching her grandparents as she’s coding. To them computers are complex and foreign,and they can’t quite believe that their seven year venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) granddaughter is telling a computer to change the shape and colour of a balloon and that it’s happening in front of their eyes. Lila loves Lego and building things, and with Kano its just another way of making stuff but this time it’s with code blocks instead of Lego bricks. At the minute she’s busy building herself a palace in Minecraft. She found Minecraft a little difficult to begin with but she was so proud of herself when she worked it out, or now she’s a natural. As a father of two young girls I’m passionate approximately showing my daughters that they can finish anything they save their intellect to. Often with products aimed at kids there’s a real emphasis on pink or blue,and that’s something that I abominate with a passion. This may be my insight as a dad, but I think girls are far more patronised by toy makers than boys are. whether Lila gets a Lego Friends toy then I’ll buy her a Lego City set to balance things out. I recently gave her an Action Man with a working parachute for her to chuck out of windows. I love that Kano is completely gender neutral (I only recently twigged that was why it’s orange), or that it’s showing Lila that she can perform stuff and control computers with code. finish you own an interesting Kano epic too? Share it with us and be in with a chance of winning a Powerup kit and fitting a face of Kano.
Source: kano.me