Tata Sky DTH for Kids...2!

To continue my earlier thoughts on TS for kids, I’ll talk about the remaining part of the Actve kids series. Yes the Actve stories and the Actve Learning bits.

Actve Stories

Actve stories is TV based story delivery that children can read and listen to it at their own pace. The service features new stories from Jataka tales, Panchatantra, Hitopadesh and Indian mythology everyday in English and Hindi.
Actve stories also incorporates excitement through contests like “Tell – a – Tale” and also gives students the opportunity to read original stories authored by teachers across the country.

Actve stories help children hone their Hindi as well as English reading skills as well as enhance their vocabulary. The service features non animated sequential pictures depicting story with a text strip at the bottom. This strip has the story typed in legible font. Children can take as long as they want to read the text. Just like a page in a story book, the text strip and the picture will not change until children are ready to move ahead.
Further stories are supported by clear and audible voiceovers. Children can listen to audio as many times they wish. Thus helping them to read and pronounce every word on the screen.

Actve Learning

Actve learning is a quiz based educational service covering math, GK & science for children in age group of 7-12 years.

From Monday to Saturday, each day children would be presented with questions on Science, Maths or GK. Subjects are divided into 2 levels of complexity, level 1 broadly covers topics taught in class 1-3 and level 2 covers topics taught in class 4-5.

On Sundays children can participate in Actve genius contest and win Rs.2500 each week. The contest comprises of a mix of questions that are featured on actve learning through the week. Each level of actve learning needs to be completed in 30 mins. All question screens display question number, score and remaining time in which the quiz needs to be completed.
Actve learning ensures that the children learn as they proceed in the quiz. If the answer selected is incorrect the correct answer is highlighted, thus helping children learn on the go. At the close of each level, children are presented with scorecard. This allows them to evaluate their performance and identify areas which they could better

This concludes my perspectives on the interactive services for children. In summary one can consider these services as a great recreational aid to a child’s education process. Tata Sky has gone the distance to even get these interactive services for kids available in schools across the country, thereby adding to the kids learning experience in schools. It’s quite a corporate social responsibility lesson and hence merits a standalone post, which shall be created real soon!