Amazon today announced Discussion Cards, a new feature for its popular Amazon Fire for Kids service and a whole new way for parents and kids to connect over digital content.
With Discussion Cards, parents can easily familiarise themselves with the Fire for Kids content their kids are viewing, such as books, videos, educational apps, and games to encourage discussion and engagement with their kids. Discussion Cards are found within the new Parent Dashboard, a mobile optimised website that also provides daily activity reports to help parents review the digital content their kids are using in Fire for Kids and determine how to manage time limits and educational goals.
Discussion Cards allow parents to tap into a specific Fire for Kids book, video, educational app or game title to get more detail, including a summary and sample questions they can ask their child. For example, when clicking on “Billionaire Boy,” parents will see questions like, “why do you think it is so difficult for Joe to make friends?” or “why do you think people say that the 'best things in life are free'?” This helps parents quickly become familiar and engage with their kids around the content they are viewing.
Discussion Cards also provide ideas for real-world experiences for families— Billionaire Boy title suggests “come up with some fun ideas for new inventions, just like Mr Spud’s toilet tissue in the book.” If a parent finds that their child has a real interest in what they read or viewed, they can suggest doing something together as a family to help deepen their experience and build on their interest.
Written by Amazon Content Editors, Discussion Cards are available for videos, books, educational apps, and games within Fire for Kids, as well as many titles that are added into Fire for Kids by parents. Discussion Cards are already available for thousands of the most popular titles, with more cards being added every day.
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