The product being evaluated for this paper is the Doodle Pro by Fischer Price, designed for children 3 and up. This product has been available for 42 years, or since 1974 when originally created as the “Magna Doodle” by Pilot Pen Corporation. It was later bought out by Fischer Price, the specific creator is unknown (Freudenrich, 2008). The Doodle Pro contains an attached stylus and 4 different shapes. It works as a magnetic drawing board that has 2 screens with a honey-comb lattice like structure in between the screens that contains finely cut iron. When the stylus touches the screen it draws the iron to the top layer of plastic, where it stays in whatever shaped intended until erased, creating a no-mess chalkboard (Fischer-Price, 2016). It is designed to allow children to explore and practice writing and drawing in a more creative and open way, where it is seen as fun and not work. The product works to mimic an individual writing or drawing normally, the child picks up the attached stylus and draws as they like, and when they are finished with that particular picture they slide the eraser button across the bottom of the screen to clear the picture and start again. To see a visual of the product, Doodle Pro, please refer to Appendix A. This allows for practicing of the essential skills and penmanship, and confidence children will need throughout their lives. The targeted audience for this project is to school aged children both male and female, from the ages of 6-8 years of
Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors.
Children's and young people's development is affected by a wide range of factors, their background, health and the environment which they are growing up in all have an impact on their development. It is important to have some understanding of these factors in order to be able to respond and recognise to any concerns that may arise. Children and young people may come from a wide range of different family environments, cultures and circumstances. All these things will affect the opportunities each child receives and the breadth of the experiences they receive.
Old school conquers new school: A personal response to “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil”
When given the choice of seven activities all three of the children, aged two years old, went straight for the sandpit to draw letters in the sand with thick and long sticks. The children doing the activity love to draw by making shapes and different movements with a variety of implements, for example paint, colouring pencils or chalk, which is similar to writing in the sand in many different ways. This means spelling out the letters in the sand can be used as a way of stimulating interest in writing.
It is very important to recognise and respond to concerns in children’s development including the environment ,learning resources and their activities as here are the areas where main problems occur. If these problems are solved and dealt with it ensures that pupils are able to continue learning and developing their skills appropriately.
On top of the expected pattern of children and young people’s development including “physical, communication & intellectual & social, emotional & behavioural development there are also “personal and external” factors which will affect how they develop.
Meggitt, C., 2006. Child Development : an illustrated guide. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/dundeecollege-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3384832
For the present study, the data was collected based off of the student’s age on two different occasions, first on January 3, 2017 and the final data point was completed on March 14, 2017. The following ten data points were addressed when collecting data for 3 year old students in the classroom:
Every Christmas, Emma’s father gave her a composition book as a gift and by the month of February it was filled to overflowing. Because money was very tight, Emma made her own writing tablets from loose pieces of paper that she would collect, fold, and sew together. Her homemade journals were crude but usable. She had collected stacks of them in a wooden box she kept in the rafters of her attic room. Emma could not afford a pen and ink well of her own. Even thought money was tight, Emma asked for a writing set of her very own each year at Christmas but she never found one under the Christmas tree. All year long, Emma saved the pennies that she earned doing odd jobs for neighbors so that she could by pencils and paper at Hoffpaur’s General Store. Because she bought most of them herself, Emma cherished her writing tools and treated them with the care that a master artist would show toward the tools of his trade.
Scribble drawing is more pictographic in expression. Children between the ages of four and six use scribble drawings as a written expression of their work. Drawing helps children with writing development and eye-hand coordination. Children should be given an opportunity to talk about the picture. Once children learn the difference between writing and
After doing so many different styles of Google Doodles to represent the Olympic Games over the years, Google wants to celebrate the 2016 Rio Olympics with some juicy fruits rocking the Olympic ground on your phone. The tech giant just introduced the 2016 Doodle FruitGames that appears in the Google search page.
For many years children scribble. They scribble on walls, on paper, and even on furniture! As a child, I was different. My drawings actually look like something, ssimply because of the fact that I took art seriously and found it fun to create what I wanted with a stick stuffed with a rock inside it. Though I did try, my drawings still seemed semi-scribble like. I don’t know what come over me, but one day it was rather gloomy outside, and was a three foot tall sheet of snow draped over my complex. I was bored, and because I got cold really quickly back then I wasn’t allowed to go outside. So I decided to draw something. I didn’t know what to draw, but I my gut was telling me draw something with true effort, and not a bunch of scribbles that looked like a dog’s barf that a person had barfed on.
To the freshman me, the pencil and paper was my escape from the sighs of disgust when remembering the flash of the black digits. I was able to craft worlds filled with characters of grandeur and adventure, befriending superheroes
Sunni Brown, the co-author of “Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers”, makes a sound and coherently proficient case in which she suggests that the definition of ‘Doodling’ be changed to “make spontaneous marks to help yourself think”. Brown’s speech at the March 2011 ‘TED’ conference in Long Beach, California before academics and her peers, was entitled “Doodlers, unite!”. She suggests in a both informative and persuasive manner that the act of doodling is undervalued, at times ridiculed but more often than not will assist people in learning and retaining knowledge. The speech’s structure, content, implemented speech devices and delivery will be analysed as to whether they were successful or unsuccessful.
As I sat on the floor smelling the old vintage red carpet in my home that had nails sticking out of it, I reached into the box of 64 different vibrant crayons. A box composed of a wide range of colors and scents tickled my little nose hairs and would only cost five dollars at my local craft store. This box allowed me to have a lively childhood because it allowed me to have fun. Usually, when I would use these crayons, it would take hours to color just one polar bear because I wanted to make sure that I wouldn’t color outside the lines. I loved the satisfaction and attention I would receive once I showed my parents my coloring job and be told, "Nice artistic skills, son." Comments like that would make me ecstatic and help me sleep better at night.