Description

★ Pumping Creativity! Jumping Recognition!AProdigal Educational Game App: "Boto the Pink Dolphin!" Createdbyspecialists in child education ★

■ What is Boto the Pink Dolphin?

① Boto the Pink Dolphin is a game-playing education programtoenhance child's creativity and talents developed by childeducationexperts.
This education app is designed to foster creativity and talentsofchildren through a game playing consisting of attractingcharactersand stories based on the curriculum developed by thetalented youtheducation center at the KIM Research Institute, anexpert agencyfor child creativity and a child education expert atthe Child andFamily Studies Department in the Seoul NationalUniversity.

② This app allows for enhancing reading capacity andforeignlanguage competency with Eng-Kor subtitles andnarrations.
Boto the Pink Dolphin includes a series of tales on theexcitingexpedition of Boto and friends with Boto as a maincharacterinspired by a mysterious and smart pink dolphin actuallyhabited inthe Amazon River. In addition, subtitles in an eBookformat andnarrations by a native speaker will not only helpchildren enhancetheir reading capacity and EQ, but also sharpen theforeignlanguage competency.

③ Results of creativity assessment and children'sachievementswill be evaluated without charge by a creativityexpert.
Boto the Pink Dolphin consists of total 6 stages. Each stageallowsfor developing different capability (intelligence andcreativity)through the game playing and also provides parentalguide to thisend. When every stages end, children's achievementsare provided.In particular, the last stage encourages children todo a creativedrawing to help develop creativity including fluency,flexibility,sensitivity, elaborateness, and originality.

■ Main focus for each stage

① Parts and the whole: seek friends hidden under the sea
- Agility that can instantly respond to visual stimulus
- Memory and integrative capacity that can retrieve the wholeobjectout of parts

② Puzzle: put broken cookie pieces together
- Spatial perception to identify shape and location ofanobject
- Organization capability to assemble parts into a singleentity

③ Pattern: complete the road by matching the colorofpebbles
- Logical reasoning and mathematical reasoning by understandingarepetitive pattern of basic unit

④ Memory: guess mysterious fruit right
- Concentration to identify an instantly exposed object
- Memory to retrieve past experience and informationintegrationcapacity

⑤ Instant reaction, prediction: cross the colorful bridge asfastas possible
- Visual attention, acuity, quickness
- Situation understanding and planning

⑥ Creative drawing: draw a creative picture diary of Boto
- Improved creativity (fluency, flexibility,originality,elaborateness, sensitivity) through a creative drawingthatchildren restructure the story of Boto themselves and usevariouscolors and figures