From "Tiger Mom and Cat Dad" to "Little Joy" to the recently popular "Little Shede", hot words such as "chicken baby" and "parenting involution" have frequently appeared in everyone's field of vision. .
For the sake of their children’s future competitiveness, parents must not only enroll their children in main courses such as English, Chinese, and mathematics, but also in art classes.
Coupled with the recent policy prohibiting early enrollment, the only classes that children aged 3-8 can currently enroll in through insurance are art courses.
Then the question is, which course is more cost-effective?
Today, Fish Sir will make a comparative evaluation of Zebra’s new Zebra Art with the popular Bear Art to see if Zebra Art, a new dark horse, is as systematic as Zebra’s other AI courses. powerful.
In addition, as the big brother, Bear Art, compared with Zebra Art, which one is more suitable for your children? Next, Yu Sir will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the two art classes in terms of course level, focus and class links, and price.
Zebra Art attaches great importance to the cultivation of imagination
The formal classes of Zebra Art were only opened on March 26, and have only been open for about two months so far.
Level Interpretation
In terms of levels, Zebra Art is divided into 3 levels: S1, S2, and S3***, but only S2 and S3 levels have been developed, that is, for 4- Courses for 8 year olds.
The main goal of the course is to follow the rules of children's painting development and pay attention to cultivating children's imagination.
It can also be seen from the level table that the course divides ability achievement goals into artistic creation ability and potential cultivation.
Artistic creation ability includes four knowledge points of "shape, composition, color, and materials"; potential cultivation includes the cultivation of "imagination, aesthetic ability, practical ability and concentration".
Therefore, the difficulty of Zebra Art continues to rise from the "basic graphics and basic elements" of S1 to the "various shapes and composition methods" of S3; and the cultivation of imagination is placed on every step. The first step in cultivating individual level potential.
Class session
After experiencing the class session, Yu Sir found that the class method of Zebra Art is basically the same as that of Little Bear Art and Gubi Art. They are both modes of unlocking courses through the app. .
Zebra Art class is divided into five parts: "aesthetic education small class, hands-on painting, I am a young painter, study report, and teacher's phone call".
Among them, take the S2 level course "Toucan Cake Shop" as an example.
The aesthetic education class is a short animation of about 5 minutes, with children's song time added. The story links are linked one by one and the pictures are exquisite. Children are guided to use their imagination by decorating the cake with patterns, and use simple patterns to turn into brand new patterns through their own imagination.
The children's song time is closely related to the animation theme, helping children to remember and laying the foundation for the creation process.
The hands-on drawing session is a 25-minute creative session. The output is a combination of real people and animation. Each time you complete a link, you need to manually click to enter the next link.
The teacher will break down the creative steps of a work in detail and let the children draw according to the teacher's rhythm. However, the course will allow children to first observe the characteristics of physical objects before writing, and combine them with daily life.
For example, using socks as creative materials allows children to realize that art comes from life, and allows children to have their own thinking and know why they draw like this.
In addition, children can play independently in the coloring part.
Finally, the teacher will ask the children questions during the creative process. These questions can trigger children to think, but because they are recorded in advance, the character "TuTu" in the video can answer them quickly, leaving less time for children to think.
I am a little painter takes pictures of the works completed in class and uploads them. The children name the works and make audio introductions.
Next, the children’s classroom works will be shared in the learning report session.
Finally, during the teacher’s phone call, the teacher will review the knowledge points of this lesson orally.
From the overall experience, the highlight of Zebra Art is that it not only pays attention to cultivating children's observation and imagination, but also takes into account the improvement of children's hands-on ability.
However, AI courses also have limitations, and parents need to accompany them in class to guide their children to think more.
Little Bear Art attaches great importance to the cultivation of hands-on ability
Regarding Little Bear Art, Yu Sir has reviewed it many times, so I will briefly talk about it today.
The Little Bear Art Course is also divided into 3 levels: S1-S3***. All have been developed so far. The recommended age is almost the same as that of Zebra Art.
From the perspective of course content, no matter which stage it is, it focuses on the cultivation of hands-on ability and performance ability, and is weak on imagination and creativity.
In the class session, Little Bear Art is divided into 6 links: "Little Bear asks you to draw, opens the door to painting, plays with colors, I am a little painter, study report, and teacher calls".
There is one more link than zebra art, but in fact, bear art separates the coloring link. The overall class process is not much different from that of Zebra Art.
The difference lies in the creative process.
Zebra Art and Bear Art both ask children to follow the teacher's steps in the video to draw, but Bear Art does not allow children to actively observe the real objects.
When painting, we are still limited to teaching children to draw simple drawings stroke by stroke, without guiding children to express their own thinking. Simply imitating does not inspire much for children.
Relatively speaking, the coloring aspect of Little Bear Art is more prominent. The teacher will take the children to experiment with creative methods of color stacking and oil-water separation.
But the actual operation is like a coloring process. Most of the time, the teacher lets the children compare the colors and rarely guides the children to color based on their own observation or imagination.
What Sir Yu is experiencing is the S2 course, which is aimed at children aged 4-6. It doesn't make much sense to let a child around 5 years old simply train the skills of drawing outlines and coloring without going out of bounds.
Cost-performance comparison
It seems that Bear Art is not as good as Zebra Art in cultivating children’s imagination, so can we directly enter Zebra Art? Don't worry.
Yu Sir has listed the information of each AI course in a table for easy comparison, and also added another popular AI course: Gubi Art.
You can see that in terms of price, Zebra Art has an advantage and is cost-effective.
But Yu Sir also said that AI courses are one-way interactions. Although Zebra Art guides children to think, there is not much time, so for children aged 3-6, parents need to accompany them in class. Let the children think carefully about the questions raised by the teacher.
Children are also encouraged to follow the teacher's methods and create works that are different from the teacher's, so that children can develop the habit of using their brains and imagination, so that cost-effective AI courses can be effective.
As for Little Bear Art, Yu Sir’s suggestion is that it can be used as a “handicraft class”. If parents want to cultivate their children’s hands-on skills, then Little Bear Art is definitely a cost-effective choice.
If you still have any questions about zebra art and bear art, want to know which one of Gubi Art, Hua Lala, Hua Lala, etc. is more suitable for your children, or you want me to give you some suggestions for your children. Some suggestions on course selection and matching,