For a few days and through an unexpected update they have been talking about Kindle Free Time, a new Amazon service that will give a lot to talk about, But what is Kindle FreeTime? Who is it for? Is it really useful? Kindle FreeTime is a new Amazon service for your Kindle family, a small but necessary step to correct the problem that Amazon and other companies recently had with access to adult content by minors. While this new service actually acts like the parental control that already exists, Kindle Free Time It tries to go further and also opens the doors to new functionalities and limitations so that Amazon's child customers are not harmed.
Kindle FreeTime and the world of education: a good sum?
At the moment, one of the improvements provided by this service is that of help in the education of our children. After activating Kindle Free Time on our child's eReader or tablet and having configured it, Kindle FreeTime will block all content that is not classified as educational. This blocking will be partial since it can only be unblocked either by parental action or by complying with the rules of Kindle Free Time: spend time using educational content. Thus, if our son wants to see a video on YouTube or a cartoon movie, he will have to read an educational ebook or play an educational game for a certain time. Thus, our son will learn while having fun. We go a digital solution to a problem already solved. But this time, the content selected by Amazon as educational has been hand-picked and expertly selected so Kindle Free Time It is shown as a useful tool in the education of our children.
The gamification of Kindle FreeTime
Gamification is all the rage and Amazon is no stranger to fads. Gamify an application or service consists of creating a game of that service or application, thus Kindle Free Time contains a game for which the child receives a series of awards or medals after achieving the marked achievements. A simple idea that is working and that other companies already carry out as Google or KoboIn the case of the first, the thing goes further and allows the teacher himself to establish the achievements to be made.
It is currently available in the United States, that is, for customers in the United States, although it can be purchased through the latest updates, along with Goodreads. At the moment is all that is known of Kindle Free Time, but I imagine that during 2014 we will know more things and there will be more changes, I am sure of it, although I do not know where Amazon's ideas will go. What do you think? Do you see it useful or one more burden for your Kindle?
More information - Goodreads definitely joins the Kindle family,
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It seems like a big mistake to me. If we consider reading as something compulsory, which must be done in order to be able to access more "fun" things, the only thing we will achieve is that children read while we have the power to force them. As soon as they get a little older, they won't even read the yogurt lids.
Books have more than potential to be attractive on their own, without requiring you to read X minutes a day or anything like that. The Harry Potters and company are there to show that children read without having to force them, and without inventing strange things. It is simply a matter of choosing well what may be more attractive to them, and that from there they catch the bug.
I find it very interesting. Anything that is getting children to read, I think it's great.