A handful of schools and community groups are sweeping aside old taboos and finding creative ways to teach children about sex and responsibility

Elaine Yau:

How do you teach children about the birds and the bees in the digital age? Touchscreens mounted on the walls of the Family Planning Association's mobile classroom point to changing approaches. Housed in a converted truck, the facility is now equipped with tablet PCs and gaming devices instead of shelves of books and videos.

"Turgid texts are being replaced by interactive video games and animation about how babies are conceived in the womb," says the FPA's education manager, Grace Lee Ming-ying.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 24, 2012 1:22 AM
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