AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education
KEYWORDS
KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION, EARLY LITERACY, Inclusion
COUNTRY
Chile
DESIGNED BY
Janet Bacovich Poirier
WEBSITE
https://rainbowmarionette.com
RAINBOW MARIONETTE
The Multilingual app for Danish kids 2-6 years old to use in the kindergarten and at home context.
My cousin's son, Sebastián had difficulties to learn how to speak. When my cousin Lucy gave birth 5 years ago Sebastian had perinatal asphyxia, which produced cerebral palsy. This condition produces some disorders specifically in the speech impairment. But he found his own way to speak through Chinese comics in YouTube in his big brother's IPAD. He started of repeating Chinese language from these videos, which had attractive sounds for him. After the Chinese language Spanish was easy to speak.
The app works as a marionette works. Children can manipulate its threads how they want in different daily life context. So the marionette is going to effectuate the movement or gest and at the same time is going to speak or sing words and phrases giving emphasis in keywords to understand the developed 8 topics (cook-eat, wake up-go to bed, outdoors activities, cultural-hyggeligt, nature, dance, sing and sport). There are 3 marionettes-languages Juan-Español, Sofie-Dansk and Dawson-English.