What do most educational web sites offer?
To our surprise, our research showed that most kids education web sites fail to meet the above, rather basic expectations. We found a large number of websites offering online educational games, activities and content in a highly unorganized manner without any standardization. Each site had its own content and navigational structure, requiring kids to read and understand instructions on the screen, making it mandatory for an adult to help and supervise. Typically, most games are not age specific and unintuitive in their design. Large number of games relied on kid’s hand-eye coordination, and did nothing in terms of helping them learn a new concept. Even the more education-oriented websites, actually do not ‘teach’ or explain concepts to the kids. They pose questions in a game format that mainly ‘test’ what the kids already know. Teaching requires audio-visual content that explain the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of each topic in an age-specific manner. This is one of the biggest shortcomings of most
