SMARTER KIDS

Dandelooo’s Emmanuèle Pétry-Sirvin, Toonz Media Group’s Bruno Zarka and The itsy bitsy Entertainment Company’s Kenn Viselman delivered lessons on successfully incorporating curricula and important social themes in kids’ content.

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‘Educational’ is very broad now because it’s almost in every show. Even in shows that are ‘commercial,’ so to speak, there is a social-emotional, educational part in it; I think we are over this era when people just wanted to entertain kids. We have a mission with children. We have to help them.

Pétry-Sirvin

We need to encourage kids to use their imaginations and creativity to problem-solve and understand a differ ent way of learning. Yes, you have to be able to do reading, writing and arithmetic. But what’s equally or probably more important is that we are creating things that allow kids to become innovators in the future.” —Kenn

Viselman

Education is a wide world. Children are spending 7 to 10 hours a day at school. When they come home and watch a program, they want to get entertained. We’re not there to point to the education as this is educational. I think our mission is not to be educational—it is to participate in this change for the future.” —Bruno

Zarka