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June 15, 2020
As I look back over the past 3 months of COVID-19 lockdown, I realize something remarkable. It’s not been all bad. There is a silver lining to this turbulent time. One that brings me face-to-face with my own privilege.
June 1, 2020
This isn’t homeschooling, it’s crisis schooling. Do what you can. Your kids will be all right.
April 29, 2020
One of the greatest discoveries I ever made as a reader is that if I’m not enjoying a book, I don’t have to finish it. The same is true for your kids. Here’s how having favourites can help them become lifelong readers.
April 10, 2020
One of our favorite ways for staying socially connected lately has been to host virtual movie nights with friends and family. We use video chat, a web browser plugin called "Netflix Party," and a hilarious addition we've dubbed the "Toddler Cam."
April 3, 2020
For thousands of years, story is the means by which we’ve entertained and trained each other. It is a fantastic motivator for learning—especially learning to read. Here's how we use story-based learning in our Kasuku Stories learn-to-read apps.
March 30, 2020
While there’s no way I can know how you’re feeling in the midst of this current global crisis, for a brief moment, I’d like to give you permission to feel—whatever it is that you’re feeling in response to this pandemic—by sharing how I’m feeling right now.
October 18, 2016
By having the device ‘cut off’ an activity at the right time, kids stayed engaged with learning longer. When they were done learning, they simply put the device down, without complaints or tantrums, and come back the next day ready and excited to learn some more. We call this feature “Kasuku is Tired.”
October 16, 2016
I don’t know what I was expecting a children’s home to be like, but I was in no way prepared for the amazing project that Mama Nancy and Mze Edwin built at at Mercy and Caring Childrens Home in Kitale, Kenya.
October 15, 2016
I’ve been thrown into a lot of unexpected speaking situations, but standing up and facing 40 Swahili-speaking children in East Africa, challenged with the task of explaining why we were there—this was not a topic or setting that I had any experience in.
October 14, 2016
From the inside of a bus, we got our first look at Kenya proper. We saw apartments, golf courses, donkey carts, piki pikis, tuk tuks, markets, shepherds, zebras, baboons, and M-pesa stands everywhere. We saw more things than we could conceivably process, and then we saw more. For 6 hours we looked out the windows onto a country that we don’t yet understand
October 13, 2016
In a few days, we are heading to a children’s home in rural Kenya. We will stay there for 10 days, to meet the kids, learn what we can of the language and culture, and give our software is first major field test.
