Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Jump Start Program
The Jump Start Learning system http://www.jumpstart.com/ is the award winning line of educational software products that is organized by grade level, offering complete age appropriate curriculum from toddles all the way to the fifth grade. Jump start full grade products cover an entire year of essential learning fundamental one grade at a time. Jump start subject focus on specific critical areas of educational curriculum leading your child to grade based subject mastering. Jump Start learning tools offer supplemental learning for kids of all ages. Jump Start adaptive learning technology automatically tracks and adjust difficulty levels to match advancing abilities. Exclusive features like the parents progress report help parent monitor a child progress and tracks success.
Jump Start Toddlers - age 18 months to 3 years
The Jump Start http://www.jumpstart.com/for toddlers is exciting computer discovery software created just for the curious minds of toddles. It introduces children to the alphabet, numbers, nursery rhymes, shapes, colours and musical instruments. Through the process the toddlers are guided by vocal jolly tone by cuddly bear character together with attracted colours and graphics incorporated to grasp the attention of the toddler. According to Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, children at this stage construct knowledge of the world through coordinating their sensory experiences. The Jump Start software help enhances the sensory ability in children. The action buttons are very user-friendly to navigate throughout the pages. There is also a parent progress report that allows the parent to monitor the progress of the child.
This stage is designed to advance the pre Kindergarten learning, where children solve puzzles, play games, sing songs, build sequencing and sorting skills, develop concentration, problem solving and decision making skills. They are also taught concepts like manners, sharing and safety. Vygotsky’s Theory comes right into play as his theory stated that scaffolding assist children in learning. The child tries to understand the world beyond his sensory action and therefore Jump Start software guides them to the accuracy and judgements of their learning process. The multimedia drill and practice software has a user-friendly interface with precise instructions which are appropriate for children at this stage.
The Jump Start program is produced for children up to grade five, which is age 9. At each start the software again is very user-friendly and attractive which also incorporates the parent progress report which allows them to be a part of the learning process, and monitor progress and success. All action buttons are functional and navigates directly to the mention screens. The colour scheme and characters were ideally used and attractive.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Sheppard Software
The use of Technology in society for children can be a motivation to learn. As technology continues to play a major role in the education of children today, http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ is one of the ideal software that can be used for such development. This software is designed for children of all ages such as; Pre kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades as there are different classifications that students can select and explore.
This software supports the school curriculum and includes various subject areas such as; Vocabulary, Health, Science, Math, History, Art and several more.
On clicking the navigation button; Vocabulary, it redirects you to a page with interactive activities and games such as: Grammar Tutorial, Verbs in Space, Adjective Adventure and many more. Each activity is displayed in attractive colours, and graphics with sounds, for instance with the movement of the cursor throughout the page. These Vocabulary activities helps a child develop their creative skills in writing; improve their speech and spelling abilities. The animations and cartoons characters incorporated in these activities are very much interactive, using different types of multimedia.
Math
On clicking the math navigational button, there are activities and games. These activities support the lessons to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Each game contains attractive multimedia, such as musical sounds, colours, and interactive graphics.
Other activities and games
These include activities and knowledge on animals, science, and history. All of which again uses several of interactive media which is eye catching and mind grasping. For instance, the animals’ category is broken down into sections such as Mammals, Birds, Invertebrates, Fish, and Reptiles.
Some of the key benefits of this software:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/softwar1.htm software is free, so children can always be up-to-date with educational technology. Saving money on consumable materials.
Enhanced instructional methods such as visual demonstrations, access to learning opportunities and cooperative learning.
This software promote Drill and Practice which permits learners to work problems and get feedback.
The software is very attractive and simple to understand, making it inviting for children, teachers and parents to explore and learn.
The following HTML will take you directly the the sites to view and purchase the software.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Learning Ladder for Children
Learning for children today takes various forms. While learning still takes place in school and school like environment, the use of technology is playing a major role in the education instruction for children. Learning Ladder Instructional Software CD is one such example, which supports the school curriculum that includes: maths, reading and writing. This CD series is also designed for differing age groups. The age group i choose focus with ages 7-8. This CD is broken into two categories; the Learning and Activities.
Learning Ladder
On entering this page, attractive sounds and animations used, would grasp the attention of any user especially children. The use of different colours and animated icons were bright and eye catching.
This page lead to a room where children are given the freedom to click on varying objects which lead to differing activities for example; boo tags, name tags, birthday party cards and also given the choice of selecting their own pictures.This develops the creativity in children allowing them to explore and improve their writing skills. Note: at each stage and step of the CD their is a background voice giving vocal instructions. This can be of great benefit for children with reading disabilities.
There are several reading and writing skills that could be developed through the use of phonics and children were rewarded on the completion of an exercises.
Activity Section
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Avanquest-Software-Learning-Ladder-Year/dp/B00004W4EM/ref=pd_sim_sw_h__4
Friday, January 29, 2010
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