Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Parenting in the New Infocomm Age

Benefits of New Media

New Media has helped foster a healthy relationship between Nyla and I as I will always be sitting with her participating in the play because I personally feel that the greatest benefit occurs when children use computer with adults. This hence supports Vygotsky's theory (remember him, NIE mates?hehe!) of socially mediated learning where a child learns through scaffolding of a task by an experienced adult.
So when I was invited to speak regarding the media activities I participate with Nyla, of course I was more than glad to do so.



Ms Nura J-Esman, Mother of a 4-yr old, Educator and Former-Celebrity with Husband, Mr Esman Supa’at.
A sought-after speaker at last year’s ‘Be A New Media Parent’ workshop, Nura is once again invited to share with us her precious moments in using the various new social media tools to educate and have a whale of a time with her daughter. This time round, Nura’s husband, Esman, will also shed light on how the new social media is significantly helping them to foster a closer bond within the family.



Yessar, ya all!
I am invited once again as a speaker ,this time on a bigger scale, organised byInfocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), National Library Board (NLB), National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) and Tampines East Community Club (TECC)
I promise to share with you peeps the many new media activities I participate with Nyla.
Mr E has also been roped in as well and he is absolutely thrilled to be sharing with the audience what are the fun stuff he always does with Nyla using new media.
The other speakers in the workshop are Ms Claudia Lim, Founder of 24Seven Communications, a local social media agency and former school teacher, Mr Effendy Ibrahim, Consumer Business Lead, Symantec Asia South and Mr Bernard Leong, Entrepreneur and Investor with Thymos Capital LLP on online social networks (Eteract & iHipo) and web-mobile applications.



It is an event not to be missed, especially for parents who would like to know more about how new media can benefit your child socially and academically, if used appropriately.

Keen?
Then, proceed to http://www.ufamily.org.sg/parenting/ to register. :)


I'll see you there ya!