I am amazed by how well the CPR interactive lessons are crafted!
As a First Aid instructor myself, I think that Resuscitation Council UK made a valuable educative material and pointed almost every single CPR element that needs to be performed. I hope they will create videos of how to perform CPR on small children, babies, pregnant women, and people who were drowning; I would love to see them!
Regarding the acceptance of videos by my home community, I am sure that they would love to learn this valuable skill in an amusing, interactive way. Belgrade is a city of almost 2 million citizens, and every day we are witnessing various kinds of accidents. When I hold first aid courses to people of different profiles - students, elementary school children, employees in embassies, sailors, nannies, fresh parents, or those who will soon become one - I can hear valuable stories of them witnessing life-threatening events. They are very eager to learn to be able to help someone in trouble.
However, as someone who has been involved for a really long time in First Aid, I cannot say that videos would be enough to deal with the real event. Skills need to be executed in the real-life, to be practiced on the CPR doll; I firmly believe it cannot be perfectly executed without constantly practicing. Also, there is an element of stress which could lead a person to freeze mode. No video or book will prepare you to deal with the possibility that life could shout down just in a couple of minutes, sometimes even seconds.
In a nutshell, I definitely would recommend those videos, especially in this situation of the pandemic, when people could not enroll and actually go on the First Aid classes.
Regarding "Plan Stan" videos, I think it is an amazing idea to teach children about the disaster risk reduction topic through the game. Children love to play games, and if we could take into account that they are like "sponges" and that they can easily remember a ton of stuff just because they played some educative game, we could reduce the risk of injuries during disasters (which are happening quite often in recent years).
"Plan Stan" is an excellent idea to engage children in the right way. Still, I think it is not very well optimized for players, which could result in children's frustration and quitting the game, and, therefore, ending their opportunity to learn.
In either way, I would encourage teachers to propose this kind of game to students.
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