DESCRIPTION

Today on the Innovation For All Podcast, Sheana chats with Cyrena Chih, formerly the Director of Product & Business Development for Khan Academy Kids. Learn in this episode how digital educational resources can support kindergarten readiness.

Khan Academy Kids is a free app, available on iOS and Android, that offers early-learning development activities for two- to six-year-old kids. It features engaging activities that develop not only the literacy and math skills of the child but also social-cognitive skills. Cyrena discusses the product and business choices they’ve made to ensure their product reaches more low-income children and families. She also describes how to tell whether an “educational” app is really designed with kids in mind.

YOU’LL LEARN:

• How to design kid-friendly applications
• What a well-executed adaptive learning program looks like
• Why they choose to turn from a for-profit to a non-profit
• How do we choose technology to alleviate early achievement gaps?
• The importance of parents co-playing with their kids.

LINKS

•  Khan Academy Kids | Khan Academy
•  Duck Duck Moose
• Head Start

Others Mentioned

• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard
•  Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework | ECLKC
•  Common Core State Standards
• Caroline and Michael Flexer
•  Stanford University
• Sesame Street
•  Design for Extreme Affordability

CONNECT WITH CYRENA

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