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Bellevue Based FishyTale Digital Donates Lyle Little Experiences To Children's Hospital
FishyTale Digital, an innovator in education and immersive storytelling books will donate 50 Lyle Little Reading Experiences to the Seattle Children's Hospital
SEATTLE, WA - 21 Apr, 2017 - Eric Luttio, CEO of FishyTale Digital, Inc. and Christine Edwards, Senior Foundation Manager of Bungie are excited to announce their joint initiative to bring an animated reading adventures to life for children at the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
FishyTale Digital is donating 50 copies of their first immersive reading experience App “The Astonishing Adventures Lyle Little Part 1 to Seattle Children’s Hospital a joint initiative with the Bungie Foundation.
FishyTale and Bungie are excited to touch the lives of as many children as possible during their stays at the hospital. Children connect to the animated characters themselves in our immersive reading experience App that brings joy and laughter.
Children and their parents will experience Lyle Little’s adventure of a lifetime after they help Lyle discover a mysterious book that takes him to the height he has always dreamt of becoming.
The Astonishing Adventures of Lyle Little Part 1 reading experience has learning based interactions, different reading experience levels, changing the narrator, reading levels and fun word assembly games, achievement games all in one adventurous reading App.
FishyTale’s aims to touch the lives of patients and their parents by creating a positively enrich learning experience.
In keeping with FishyTale’s mission and vision for the company we also have a site dedicated to help parents with kids in our growing digital world.
About FishyTale Digital Inc.
FishyTale Digital was founded in July, 2014 by CEO Eric Luttio, a business leader with over 25 years of executive management experience in high tech industries from telecommunication to biotechnology and healthcare; Executive Vice President, Denny Andrews, a former business owner, published author, and corporate trainer who created and presented business strategies for Boeing Microsoft, Farmers Insurance and hundreds of other companies.
Visit: http://www.FishyTale.com
Media ContactCompany Name: FishyTale Digital, Inc.
Contact Person: Denny Andrews
Email: Denny@fishytale.com
Phone: 425-405-5580
Country: United States
Website: http://www.fishytale.com
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
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Friday, April 7, 2017
Helping Parents Help Kids Negotiate Our Digital World
From 2010 to 2014 the average
daily use of mobile devices for adults went from just over an hour to over 5
hours per day, in addition to the three and a half hours spent online and over
4 hours watching TV. That brings the
combined screen time for adults to over 12 hours a day not accounting for the
dual screen situation where people watch TV while they surf the internet or
communicate on their mobile devices.
That’s the average screen time
for adults and then we wonder why our children are so attracted to screens and
the potential damage they may be causing themselves. I read an article where a
parent was discussing the mock dinner their young children were preparing and
before pretending to serve anything they both checked pretend phones for texts
and emails. Children have always wanted to be more grown up and the best example
they have of that is watching their parents.
If you really want to limit your
children’s screen time the first thing that you need to do is limit your screen
time in front of them. It will be more difficult than you think but is
extremely important if you are trying to show your kids that there is more to
life than staring into a screen or mobile device. Babies learn by mimic
Official recommendations by the
American Academy of Pediatrics for children’s screen time has remained largely unchanged
since 1998:
· No time for
kids under 2
· No more than
2 hours a day for older children
· Even with
more and more education on computers they still suggest no more than 2 hours of
recreational screen time per day
A report by common sense media
reported that in 2013 75% of kids under age 8 had access to mobile devices and 38%
of children under the age of 2 had access.
Organizations that support educational
media technologies for kids call most of the content created for them “dopey
activities” or the “empty calories” of the digital media world.
Parents need to be intentional
about the amount of time their kids spend on screens and especially as to
exactly what type of content they are watching and interacting with. It is
equally important for parents to take the opportunity to spend time with their
kids online instead of making a battle out of it make it an opportunity for
learning and bonding.
Reports show that somewhere
between 15% and 33% of teenagers have been cyber bullied over text messaging or
social media. That is only one of the potential dangers when looking at the
ever expanding digital world. In addition, there are plenty of other hazards
that are not fully understood:
· The rewiring
of the brain from too much screen interaction
· The
interference with natural light and sleep cycles
· What
activities are being replaced by the time kids are spending on screens
· The long term
effects from lack of social interaction
· And many
other, physical, social and psychological
Ask your kids to teach you their
favorite games, as well as any educational games along with any rewards or
bonuses they have achieved.
Some sites and games have listed
or suggested age limits take a look and follow the recommended limits.
Have periodic discussions with
your kids about their online activity and what to be careful as they grow older
and spend more and more time on the different social networks and websites.
If you are going to monitor your
child’s screen or online activity have a conversation with them first so they
know you are monitoring them and that you are doing it to keep them safe. If
you do it without them knowing, you risk damaging the trust they have with you.
Every type of device has
parental controls and screen sharing capabilities so you can easily keep an eye
on your child’s screen time and keep them safe.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Managing Your Kids and The Digital Age
Managing Technology, Screen Time and Kids
There
are a lot of issues that need to be considered when looking at kids and screen
time or technology.
How
much technology or screen time can have negative effects.
Now
that there is a screen or 2 in every room not to mention the smaller screens
that every person in the room is holding when is it too much?
In
addition to that then there is the type of content and how much of the various
types of content is considered too much:
·
Movies
·
Video Games
·
Facebook
·
Other Social Media
·
Apps and Other Games
·
Texting and Facetime
·
YouTube
·
Television shows
·
Shopping
·
Homework
Many
kids left on their own would happily play video games for days on end so it’s
important to put together a screen time plan that teaches them the discipline
they will need as they grow older and the world becomes more and more digital.
We
all have heard that the Internet has other hazards besides the lack of personal
interaction, inability to focus and screen addiction. Tomorrow’s post will
offer some solutions to all the problems and issues that come with our ever
expanding digital age.
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