{"id":8293,"date":"2020-04-06T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/wacom-infochannel\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:27:05","slug":"the-device-your-teen-needs-for-home-based-distance-learning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/the-device-your-teen-needs-for-home-based-distance-learning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Device Your Teen Needs for Home-Based Distance Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Americas Marketing director Melissa Ashcraft has prepared this very insightful and personal experience of how Wacom One can support teens in their distance learning. Check out our Americas Blog<\/a> for additional content.<\/h4>\n \nLong before the stay at home orders were issued due to Covid-19, I was a freelance writer, which means that much like today, I was at home for hours and days and eons with my son. Except I was a freelance writer years ago, and my son was very little. Like maybe 2 or 3. And I would balance making words for money, and caring for an extremely active and squiggly kid. He climbed on everything constantly, including me. I remember one day he was climbing on me while drinking milk and he spilled milk on my laptop and I most certainly cried over that spilled milk.\n \nI likely went back to corporate marketing shortly after the milk\/laptop incident. Now my son and I are back to existing in the same house for hours and days on end. Except now a few things have changed. The main thing to change (mercifully): My son is too old to watch to Happy Feet repeatedly because he\u2019s now 14.\n \nJust a few days before our state\u2019s governor issued a stay at home order, I grabbed a Wacom One<\/a> for my son with the intention that he\u2019d use it for art, and for his favorite subject: math. I am terrible at math and to see my beautiful boy excel at such an arcane, Byzantine subject is a real head-scratcher. Also, I just assume he\u2019s right on all of his problems because what the hell do I know? Answer: literally nothing. Just a few days ago, my husband told me how to figure out percentages on a calculator so I no longer have to go to Google and type \u2018what is X the percentage of Y\u2019? (OMG: I am writing this on the company blog. Hello Nobu! Don\u2019t worry! I don\u2019t need math skills for my job! I have Google!)\n\"\"\nI give myself a sold B to B- for my parenting abilities. For example, I never have cut a single crust off a sandwich and the boy has been doing his own laundry since he was 8. Also, I never played on the play equipment with him. I just sort of sat on the sidelines and said good job occasionally, but only in a half-hearted way so that he\u2019d still be motivated to slide down the slide better. But now he seems like a happy kid and he\u2019s pretty funny too. Stephen King once said: humor is almost always anger with its make up on. So maybe he\u2019s not that happy. What does Stephen King even know???!\n \nLike I said, I\u2019m an okay parent, but I made one really great parenting decision and that was getting the Wacom One<\/a> for his distance learning. When I brought it home, my son immediately cleaned his room. I mean, I feel like I could stop this blog post here and I\u2019d have a good bunch of you running to Wacom estore to purchase one<\/a>. Go ahead!! You don\u2019t need to read the rest!\n \nAfter he plugged the Wacom One<\/a> into his laptop, he got to drawing right away with Autodesk Sketchbook. This is a great app for anyone who hasn\u2019t earned their chops in Photoshop. Hint: even I can help customers use Autodesk Sketchbook on a busy tradeshow floor! Come to me with a question about Photoshop and here\u2019s me:\n\"Disappear<\/a>\nHe\u2019s been drawing for hours each day on the Wacom One<\/a>. The other day I challenged him to make a still life of the fruit I had panic-purchased a few days prior.\n\"\"\nYes, I bought that many jalapenos. Add panic shopping to the list of things I\u2019m not great at. And he willingly made a still life, but because he\u2019s more into illustration than he is whatever lame thing I think about (fine art!), he added some characters to his still life too.\n\"\"\nAnd, what\u2019s more, he\u2019s also using the Wacom One<\/a> for his math too.\n\"\"\nI don\u2019t even know what this is a picture of. Is that called a triangle? But what I do know is that I don\u2019t have a printer in my house and yet, my son is able to work on his math digitally. I did ask him if that was actual math when I took the picture. He assured me it wasn\u2019t fake math. I mean, what do I know? I picked up the trash around his desk before I took this picture, so it would seem like my 14 year old son has a tidy clean room, so he didn\u2019t get honesty from me. Maybe this is fake math.\n \nAll of this is to say that I do truly feel like a genius for grabbing a Wacom One<\/a> before my son, once again, became my constant companion. It\u2019s so much better than a printer and he actually likes using it. And\u2026he can make fake math on it too.\n \nIf your teen is also into math, or drawing then you should certainly get a Wacom One<\/a> for this time of quarantine. 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