Because news requires special lighting adapted to their young age, we have selected for you mobile and magazines apps that help them decrypt images and understand the world around them.
“”Mom, daddy, what is a minister?“,”Why do people come together and groan the street?“,”Will he Hurricane Irma come to France?“. Your children are curious, assail you daily questions and you, parents, are a little confused when it comes to explaining things concretely. In addition, they can feel drowned in this more or less reliable information ocean, which saturate television, radio and especially social networks. No panic! Several magazines or apps adapted to their young age are thought to educate them to the media, giving them more easily The information they fail to enter and allow them to explore the news in a fun, fun and instructive way.
From 6 years old… The little daily life, a real newspaper like adults!
Designed for 6-10 year olds, the Small daily is a funny journal adapted to the interests and curiosities of small readers. On the first page, the child discovers a “one”, as in his parents’ newspapers, on a topical fact or on the world around him like eruption volcanoes or even the greatest dolphins in France. The other three pages bring details with an angle and a vocabulary adapted to its age. He will find small boxes explaining the difficult words, quizzes to verify that he understood the info, images that complement each article, games or comics to understand the news while having fun! For any subscription (8.99 euros per month for 25 numbers), the child benefits from unlimited digital access on the newspaper’s website. To go further … Every Friday, The little Libe Deciphers a subject that makes the news or answers a question of society (school harassment, what is the Republic? The origins of the Advent calendar …). Through illustrations, portraits, cards, quizs, interactive games and especially various, clear and accessible subjects even to the youngest, this online newspaper allows curious little ones to better understand what they hear on television, radio or in adult discussions (5 euros per month, 4 euros if you are subscribed to Liberation).
From 8 years old … 1 day 1 news, to understand everything very simply
“News up to children!”, This is what the first daily newspaper of 100 % free news for young readers. Via simple articles, educational cartoons, infographics or interviews, This webzine Answers the real questions posed by children and allows them to sharpen their critical thinking. Below each paper, children can give their opinion and share their reactions. Man in space, freedom of expression, food waste, ecology … thematic files are offered each week depending on the news.
From 10 years old… Zoomzoom Okapi, the app that has fun with the news
Already very well known to the pre-teens, the Okapi magazine launches Zoomzoom, a free, fun and educational application that allows the 10-15 years to sharpen their eyes on the images that flood their screens and measure the importance of the legends and the framing that can change the full meaning of a photo. The principle? The app offers three “mystery” photos every day (from the France-Presse agency) to decrypt. The child sees a zoomed part of the photo, then he must answer a quiz to guess what he is hiding behind the photo. Finally, the entire shot is revealed and is accompanied by a short article explaining where the photo comes from, which it represents and the context in which it was taken. In addition to being addressed in a fun way, this app has an educational dimension and allows you to refine its gaze in a world where images out of the context, disinformation and fake-new invade our screens. Simple and effective!
From 14 years old… Give Me Five, 5 news per day to discover in 5 minutes!
Here is the first app news, entirely free, devoted to teens and launched by the Phosphorus Magazine. Politics, society, international news, economic life, culture, sorting, checks and selects the five essential information of the day – those that make people speak, that which brings a debate or those that must have understood to forge a point of view – then it sums up them concrete, concrete and understandable by young people. Each news is accompanied by an image, an animated GIF or a short video which complement the info to make it more fun.
Discuss family news. The information is omnipresent: on television, on radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and on social networks. Although they can talk about it in school, with their teacher, children also need to be accompanied by their parents in order to learn to measure the reliability of sources, but also to understand the meaning of what they see or hear. How to help him learn? What are the right reflexes to adopt?
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