The Abu Dhabi Authority for Early Childhood announced the introduction of a package of innovative tools targeting parents and caregivers, through three specialized digital platforms, to enhance the mental, behavioral and cognitive development of young children, which is an opportunity to invest in children to enjoy high self-confidence, enrich their social skills and enhance their capabilities Cognitive.
The move comes in partnership with a group of leading national and international companies in the field of digital education, targeting parents and children under the age of eight, in order to attract innovative and effective tools and solutions that contribute to enriching the educational process for children and raising the health level.
The list of digital platforms, which can be accessed through smart application stores on mobile phones, tablets and computers, includes a "touch" platform that provides interactive content in the Arabic language, simulating the cultures of the target groups and includes stories, games and videos that help parents interact with their children, And Avinida is a chat platform that provides parents with extracurricular educational activities that specialize in developing the mental development of their children, in addition to the Kindo platform, which focuses on providing educational films that enhance educational experiences at home and at school.
She indicated that the companies developing these platforms will allow unlimited use for a period of four weeks, which will continue until the eighth of next April, emphasizing the importance of investing children's times in empowering them cognitively based on extra-curricular activities that can be applied at home and under the supervision of parents, in addition to that it supports languages Arabic, English and Spanish, and to allow their use for the students ’families to create an environment that stimulates the child’s knowledge development, in a participatory manner that enhances the psychological and social balance, and reinforces the concept of family bonding.
The authority stated that the tools integrate three pioneering models in the child's cognitive empowerment sector, in line with the efforts of the Ministry of Education on the distance learning model, and is a model for learning through play, and a positive model for digital learning, through which parents can be educated and empowered with built tools On the summary of global experiences in the field of early childhood, according to systematic and scientific foundations. The Authority was keen to adhere to its social responsibility, in cooperation with the private sector, to deepen the sense of educational responsibility of the parents, and to enhance their positive communication with the child, and to provide them with rich and integrated developmental content suitable for children under the age of eight, that helps to prepare children for the wise and positive use of technology and make it a permanent practice, and community awareness The importance of early childhood in shaping the future and features of a confident child.
She emphasized that caring for the parents of their child in early childhood, sharing play and talking, preparing a daily program that enhances mental, behavioral and physical development for him, and making the home environment enjoyable, safe and stimulating for all, is an important investment to enhance the child's self-confidence and enrich his social skills, and enhance his cognitive capabilities and cognitive capabilities, from By relying on extra-curricular activities that can be applied at home and under the supervision of parents.
Awareness of creative tools
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Early Childhood stated that the innovative solutions that it proposes contribute to empowering the local community with innovative tools to raise awareness of early childhood development practices, prepare children, raise perceptual response rates, and reduce negative practices that involve the unwise use of technology and smart devices, along with the importance of benefiting from The results of the evaluation of the experiment, its effect and its usefulness, using artificial intelligence tools and advanced algorithms, which contribute to supporting the drawing of future directions.