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Like it or not, most of what kids learn is from media--because I don't have an infinity gauntlet and can't thanos snap all parents into being good parents at a moment's notice--and as I've probably lamented before, today's media for kids seems to be just vacuous bullshit.
Toilets toilets toilets, that's children's media today.
I remember watching the first season of Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, and one thing that offended me is that it was no longer any sort of edutainment series (except in a very subtle way), when Carmen was literally born to educate kids. I found myself remembering the 1990s Fox Kids version, which had several lessons I still remember to this day (most notably its where I learned about Latitude and Longitude) and which actually holds up--even watching as an adult, the character drama and mysteries hold intrigue and I still sometimes learn something I didn't know.
And I think anyone growing up in the eighties or nineties must've had a school computer lab with a copy of Died of Dysentery Simulator. Oh, I guess it was called "The Oregon Trail" in some markets.
That got me thinking if educational media for kids still exists?
The most recent one I'm aware of was this anime-looking show called The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog. I only ever saw one episode and the theme seemed to be that some situation would come up and Alfred and his friends would solve it by explaining some science fact (the episode I saw was about this phenomena where water in ponds and lakes would spout upwards at times, I forget what the explanation was).
But even that was in, what, 2012? Maybe earlier?
I imagine "educational media for kids" these days would be a lot like the channel Queer Kids Stuff, IE more about ideological bullshit and less about practical knowledge you can actually put into practice, practically, in a practical sense.
Toilets toilets toilets, that's children's media today.
I remember watching the first season of Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, and one thing that offended me is that it was no longer any sort of edutainment series (except in a very subtle way), when Carmen was literally born to educate kids. I found myself remembering the 1990s Fox Kids version, which had several lessons I still remember to this day (most notably its where I learned about Latitude and Longitude) and which actually holds up--even watching as an adult, the character drama and mysteries hold intrigue and I still sometimes learn something I didn't know.
And I think anyone growing up in the eighties or nineties must've had a school computer lab with a copy of Died of Dysentery Simulator. Oh, I guess it was called "The Oregon Trail" in some markets.
That got me thinking if educational media for kids still exists?
The most recent one I'm aware of was this anime-looking show called The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog. I only ever saw one episode and the theme seemed to be that some situation would come up and Alfred and his friends would solve it by explaining some science fact (the episode I saw was about this phenomena where water in ponds and lakes would spout upwards at times, I forget what the explanation was).
But even that was in, what, 2012? Maybe earlier?
I imagine "educational media for kids" these days would be a lot like the channel Queer Kids Stuff, IE more about ideological bullshit and less about practical knowledge you can actually put into practice, practically, in a practical sense.
