Fairlady Media

Last month Fairlady Media received an email from an Education Marketing Program Coordinator at Apple, requesting permission to install the game on 200 iPads. Whizzit 123 and other apps were scheduled to be featured in a presentation at a conference in Sydney, Australia in early June. The iPads for Learning program is working with Apple to test the value of the iPad, and the applications it can access, as an additional opportunity to engage students and to improve their educational attainment. Warringa Park School is one of the participating schools; they have posted the following on the program’s website:

“Through apps such as Whizzit 123 and Toddler Counting, [the students] have to touch each individual object as they are counting. The numbers are read aloud to them and displayed visually. Only when they have counted all the objects, are they allowed to continue onto the next challenge. Even in the short time I have been using this app with students, I have observed students noticing objects missed and beginning to count more systematically.”

I was curious to know more about how Whizzit 123 was being used in the program, so I made contact with one of the program administrators (an iPad coach). She responded, “I just wanted to say how much we enjoy this application and it has already benefitted our students on different levels: 1) students who we are encouraging to point to specific parts of the screen, and 2) students who are learning how to include every item when they count.  Many of our students either count objects twice or miss out objects when counting them but this application really helps to focus them to each individual object.”

More information about the iPads for Learning program can be found at http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/.

We are delighted that Whizzit 123 is part of this fantastic program to help children learn more effectively!