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We aimed to address the issue of children spending too much time on their devices and not enough learning necessary skills. We took advantage of this dependency by creating a fun and educational website that encourages children from ages 8-13 years to learn life skills through video tutorials.
We created surveys to assess which skills to include. We split the site into three age categories: 8-9, 10-12 and 13+, and surveyed each category individually. We surveyed children of that age with permission from their schools. We used the data gathered to finalise our website content.
From our surveys we learned that most children in the ages 8-9 and 10-12 categories were not able to tie a tie, and 52.9% wanted to learn how. First aid was the least known skill in the 13+ category and was requested by 40%. This was a common theme throughout out results. 95% of children had access to a device, so children have means of accessing our website.
Site features include: a shared photo gallery, a badge reward system and a recommended links section. We created 18 tutorials demonstrated by children of that age group. A sample group then tested our website and gave feedback. 91% of people rated our website “very good” or “good”.
Conclusively, children spending too much time using technology and not enough learning necessary skills is a rising problem and will harmfully impact future generations. We hope our site will address this issue and bring awareness to this modern problem.
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