NEW - FIRST EDITION SIMULATION FOR DEVELOPMENT COURSES
Q. How do your students integrate their practical experiences in their course work?
A. This interactive simulation offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child. By making decisions about specific scenarios, students raise their child from birth to age 17 and see how their own decisions and parenting actions affect their child over time. At each age, students are given feedback about their child.
Q. What activities do you incorporate into your course to ensure that your students are grasping the concept of parental decisions based on theories presented in class?
A. This program includes over 500 questions. Each student will be given over 150 questions/scenarios to respond to. Throughout this time, the students receive reports for his/her child’s developmental progress. Respectively, written assignments will also be given at the end of 4 developmental stages (infant, preschool, school-age and adolescence).
This interactive simulation which is available via OneKey, offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child. By making decisions about specific scenarios, students raise their child from birth to age 17 and see how their own decisions and parenting actions affect their child over time. At each age, students are given feedback about the various milestones their child has attained. As in real life, certain “unplanned” events may randomly be presented for students. Key stages of the child’s development will include personalized feedback, such as:
- A pediatrician’s report
- The evaluation of an “early development specialist” prior to the child starting preschool
- Report cards
- Teacher conferences
- Assignments
With Virtual Child, students will be able to integrate their course work with their practical “experiences” of raising a child. The Virtual Child addresses social, personality, physical and cognitive development.
Available within OneKey for the following titles from Prentice Hall:
Child Development, 4e
Robert Feldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Children and Their Development, 4e
Robert Kail, Purdue University
Understanding Human Development, 1e
Grace Craig
Wendy L. Dunn, Coe College
