- KIKASETE IS AN APPLICATION THAT DEVELOPS CHILDREN'S ABILITY TO THINK AND COMMUNICATE THROUGH THE READING OF ORIGINAL PICTURE BOOKS
- An application to support parents' "wishes" for their children's happiness with a unique curriculum and the three "concerns" that parents have in raising their children: time, energy, and money.
- This fall, we've upgraded it even further! New content has been added to develop your imagination by looking at famous paintings.
Concentration, reading comprehension, language skills, empathy for others.... Through the experience of reading, children acquire the skills necessary for social life. Above all, exposure to various worlds through stories will enrich children's life experiences. KIKASETE" is an application that maximizes the benefits of reading.
Winner of the Excellence Award in the BabyTech® Award Japan 2021 Learning and Play category, KIKASETE is a picture book application that develops the ability to think and communicate. By reading original picture books and answering related questions, children can improve their ability to think and communicate their feelings to others. In this interview, we spoke with Tomomi Okuno, president of AvirityInformation, the creator of KIKASETE, about its appeal, how it was developed, and its future development.
We spoke with...
AvirityInformation, Inc.
President
Yumi Okuno
Original picture books and well-thought-out "questions" develop children's abilities.
Editor: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule today! First of all, please tell us about the features of the KIKASETE picture book application.
Okuno: It is my pleasure to meet you, KIKASETE is an application for developing the ability to think and communicate. As children read the original picture book, they are given quizzes related to the content, questions that delve into specific topics, and questions that ask them how they felt about the picture book and why.
Editor: So many mechanisms to expand knowledge based on the content of the book and develop the child's own thinking skills, rather than just reading the book and calling it a day!
Okuno: Yes. The flow of the application is as follows: When you open the application, picture books appear, and you choose the one you are interested in from among them. Inspired by the concept of "reverse learning," the curriculum consists of one set of preparation and review, so that the same picture book will appear the next day. After reading, a unique curriculum is developed, including quizzes and questions based on the content of the picture book. At the end of the reading, we believe that it is an even better reading experience when parents and children can talk about the contents of the picture book together.
Editor: So many different kinds of questions!
Okuno: Yes, for example, there are "think questions" that ask about the context of the picture book, "speech questions" that dig deeper into the child's thoughts in line with the content of the picture book, and "quizzes" that are knowledge questions. For the "speech questions," in particular, we ask the children why they thought that way, but we emphasize the importance of not denying their opinions.
