My Virtual Child Student Access Code Card
Frank Manis

ISBN-10: 0131751654
ISBN-13: 9780131751651

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Access Code Card
Published: 09/18/2006

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A web based program designed to be used by undergraduate students in child and lifespan development courses.

 

This interactive simulation offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child. By making decisions about specific scenarios, students raise their child from birth to age 17 and see how their own decisions and parenting actions affect their child over time. At each age, students are given feedback about the various milestones their child has attained. As in real life, certain “unplanned” events may randomly be presented for students. Key stages of the child’s development will include personalized feedback. 

 

*** Available standalone (order this ISBN or go to www.myvirtualchild.com to purchase immediate access) or within OneKey for Feldman's Child Development 4e; Kail's Children and Their Development, 4e; or Craig/Dunn's Understanding Human Development. Your students will be able to integrate their course work with their practical “experiences” of raising a child. 

 

 

My Virtual Child is a simulation that allows students to raise their own "virtual" child and apply the content they are learning in class.

A web-based program designed to be used in child and lifespan development courses, this interactive simulation offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child. By making decisions about specific scenarios, students will raise their child from birth to age 17 and see how their own decisions and parenting actions affect their child over time. At each age, they will be given feedback about the various milestones their child has attained. As in real life, certain “unplanned” events may randomly be presented to them. Key stages of the child’s development will include personalized feedback.

www.myvirtualchild.com

 

Q. How do your students see their practical experiences their course work?

 

A. This interactive simulation offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child. By making decisions about specific scenarios, students raise their child from birth to age 17 and see how their own decisions and parenting actions affect their child over time. At each age, students are given feedback about their child.

 

Q.  What activities do you incorporate into your course to ensure that your students are grasping  the concept of parental decisions based on theories presented in class? 

 

A. This program includes over 500 questions.  Each student will be given over 150 questions/scenarios to respond to.  Throughout this time, the students receive reports for his/her child’s developmental progress.   Respectively, written assignments will also be given at the end of 4 developmental stages (infant, preschool, school-age and adolescence).

 

 

 

 

This interactive simulation, available via OneKey, offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child. By making decisions about specific scenarios, students raise their child from birth to age 17 and see how their own decisions and parenting actions affect their child over time. At each age, students are given feedback about the various milestones their child has attained. As in real life, certain “unplanned” events may randomly be presented for students. Key stages of the child’s development will include personalized feedback, such as:

  • A pediatrician’s report
  • The evaluation of an “early development specialist” prior to the child starting preschool
  • Report cards
  • Teacher conferences
  • Assignments

With My Virtual Child, students will be able to integrate their course work with their practical “experiences” of raising a child.  My Virtual Child  addresses social, personality, physical and cognitive development.

 

 

See how My Virtual Child has impacted classrooms across the country by viewing this video shot at Patrick Henry College in Virginia.

 

 mms://www.ph.vccs.edu/virtualchild.wmv

 

 

Available within OneKey for the following titles from Prentice Hall:

           

 

Child Development, 4e

Robert Feldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

Children and Their Development, 4e

Robert Kail, Purdue University

 

Understanding Human Development, 1e

Grace Craig

Wendy L. Dunn, Coe College

 

For Child Development (Chronological Approach)


For Child Development (Topical Approach)


For Lifespan Development


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