I'm a Luddite—but I'll still let my daughter use this e-learning app.
, an iOS app founded by two Latinx creators for kids ages two to 12. It works with children's content creators—nearly all of color—to teach kids crafts, critical thinking, new languages, and more through storytelling. The “storyteaching” app has videos, games, audio books, e-books, and more.during a recent weekend—while I observed over her shoulder, of course.
Tiny Travelers’ “India Treasure Quest” offered an overview of India: the Taj Mahal, Bollywood, the Himalayas, tigers, and elephants. The illustrations were vibrant and inviting, especially one of the north Indian spring festival of Holi. My daughter really loved all the craft activities, from Peruvian spin drums to Guatemalan worry dolls, and we hope to do them together in the near future.
As a parent, I appreciated the ageless feminist message in “You Can Be” from Tyrus’ Kids, a content creator that centers Black girls and boys as narrators and in illustrations. Here, a little Black girl describes all the Black and Brown women she might grow up to be: Beyoncé, Selena, Misty Copeland, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ibtihaj Muhammad. “Whatever you decide you can be, make sure it makes you happy,” she says.
Meanwhile, my art-loving child greatly enjoyed “Pirates: Adventures in Art,” a series of 12-minute episodes about three pirates who sail the seas in search of art, always dodging the evil art-hating queen Conformia. This Canadian series features animated characters that are ambiguously Brown, as far as I could tell, which is both a con and a pro . At this age, she prefers longer narratives, which is why I also think she spent much of her allotted screen time on this channel.
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