5 Techniques to Encourage Creativity in Screen time Era

5 Techniques to Encourage Creativity in Screen time Era

Summary
Are the fights to control screen time is also a question in your home…?? Is screen is snatching creativity from you and your kids..??

Introduction
Being new age digitalised parent everyone is facing issues regarding kids acceleration toward the s screen and its prolonged usage, above that pandemic has worsened the situation by offering access to all internet and mobile phones services in the name of online studies as from kindergarten to college everyone is using mobiles, laptops or iPad to study.

Earlier mobile phone was used as a third parent whenever parents felt inadequacy of time they handed over phones to kids to retain them busy but now the screens have been playing the role of 2nd tutor as well. Is That’s all to do with the technology??? what they are missing out, is a world full of exciting and creative use of these devices. let’s eliminate the demons of the screen with the weapon of creativity.

By following small measures can control and make screen time a creative medium for kids:

1 Set Clear limits
Monitoring the screen time of kids and what they watch is the most essential thing. Setting parental control over the play store and YouTube and other apps assists in controlling unnecessary apps and videos limits can be set by adapting the lifestyle which works for the whole family.

2. Prioritisation to other things
Kidstickks to screen like a magnet and tend to ignore all other important things happening around them. To make them aware we should help them understand the d difference between physical and digital things. They are losing kindness and gratitude toward the s environment. Spending more time with kids either a sport, a shortrialil or storytelling can develop the basic moral values.
3. Practice what you preach
Setting the last time of screen usage should ban e important rule. Make sure one should also heed the same as a parent we can’t preach them without ensuing it on our own. Healthy discussion between kids and the parents regarding the limit is necessary.

They can share things like the effect on productivity and the focus with the mental understanding. Screen-free days can be set, and concerns about the real world can be shared.

4. Change habits
Earlier morning regime was to get up early and tighten shoelaces for active sport or walk. But now, days start from sliding snooze to checking story updates changing everyone’s mental state.

Parents should work on their ways and restrict the use of early morning and late-night screens, before forcing the same law on kids. Co-operating with kids to set expectations and revising them as a routine must be indispensable.

5. Creating Creative Time
It may require a little more effort parents have to step out of their comfort zone to learn a new skill for themselves. it’s not like justifying time spent by watching moving or dining together rather converting portion-time into quality one. cultivation of interactive activities either on-screen or off-screen is crucial, instead of colouring or playing them, encouraging them to do digital colouring or playing the group games with you or family.

There are thousands of apps available on iTunes and Google Play that are productive, creative and fun. Just load ipads with puzzle apps like Flow Free and 2048, movie-making apps, 3D printing apps and word games like Scribblenauts. project your tablet on the TV and play games like 4 pics, 1 Word or Stack the States. The kids love to play as a group. In addition, MIT’s App Inventor software gives them opportunities to create their apps or modify existing content.

App inventor platforms help children feel inventive. These tools can support the Creative Communicator, Empowered Learner and Innovative Designers standards. Making a piece of digital music: apps are offering to create music videos edition, online courses like storytelling, public speaking, small-term courses Junior MBA to content writing and Sites are offering E comics, audible books and brain teaser games are proving fruitful.

Conclusion
If a child of four years is brilliant at the navigation of Android that doesn’t mean that he or she has great technical skills, it simply means that technology is developed so intuitively which four-year kid can easily use it. Children need physical activities to source up learning skills for better awareness of technology in observing problems of their world. With the help of technology parents, should also learn technical skills and self-regulating habits.

Technology will stay and children will use digital skills to work in future, but rather than regulating the timing of the screen they should govern what they do on the screen. Balancing is the need of time.
Call for action
Turn screen time into deep learning time by guiding kids to use technology to create, collaborate, develop and become good digital citizens. Utilising screen time intelligently can organize us for a better future.
For additional queries related to technical tips and tricks to engage kids in more creative things do write it in the comments section box.

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