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Kidaptive Reinforces Its Commitment to Early Learning, Introducing New
Adaptive Games Featuring Research-Based Kindergarten-Readiness Skills
NEW YORK, April 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kidaptive, an innovative
edtech company focused on early learning, today introduced Wish Upon a
Fish, the sixth appisode in its award-winning Leo's Pad: Preschool
Kids Learning Series for iPad. Leo's Pad is available today on the App
Store and will be featured live at the Games for Change Arcade event,
taking place April 26, 2014 at the Tribeca Family Street Fair during
the Tribeca Film Festival.
Leo's Pad comprises beautifully animated learning games, called
appisodes, created in collaboration with scientists from Stanford to
teach children developmentally appropriate Kindergarten-readiness
skills at home. In Wish Upon a Fish, characters Leo, Fusch, and Cinder
guide players through a series of adaptive games tied to a
research-based early learning framework embedded into the storyline.
With encouragement from Leo and friends, players embark on a quest to
catch the elusive Wishing Fish, a Koi fish with magical powers.
Also included in Leo's Pad is the newly updated Parent's Pad feature,
now accessible through a browser on a phone or computer, as well as
inside the app. Parent's Pad includes analysis of kids' gameplay
across dozens of learning dimensions, and also provides parents with
ideas for engaging with children through additional offline learning
activities.
"All parents want to prepare their kids for success in school, but
they don't always know the best way to do that," said Dylan Arena,
PhD, co-founder and chief learning scientist at Kidaptive. "It turns
out that the most important preparation isn't mastery of routine
skills like reciting the alphabet or counting to 30; foundational
skills like attention control, emotional awareness, problem solving,
and curiosity are actually better ingredients for academic success."
In Wish Upon a Fish, players learn and practice these foundational
skills, honing in on: attention control, mental shape manipulation,
problem solving, identifying facial expressions in others, impulse
control, and delay of gratification.
-- Attention control - In the first game, learners are invited to feed
the fish to entice it to come closer. The challenge for players is to
focus on one task at a time without getting distracted.
-- Mental shape manipulation - In game two, Leo and friends decide to
build a submarine to try to catch the Wishing Fish. Learners practice
skills including tracing, rotating and scaling the shapes of the
submarine.
-- Problem solving - Game three targets problem solving skills through
the introduction of a Rube Goldberg Machine. Players work on
generating novel solutions to a problem and predicting whether another
character's solutions will work.
-- Identifying facial expressions - Next, Leo and friends decide to
try a more social approach to catch the Wishing Fish, by playing a
game with it. Kids imitate the facial expressions of the fish and snap
pictures of themselves to compare.
-- Impulse control and delay of gratification - Finally, in a nod to
the famous Stanford marshmallow experiment on delayed gratification,
learners play an adaptive game that challenges their self regulation
and impulse control.
Wish Upon a Fish is available for download as an update to Leo's Pad:
Preschool Kids Learning Series for iPad on the App Store today.
About Kidaptive Kidaptive is an innovative edtech company offering a
comprehensive early-learning curriculum and assessment framework to
engage children and empower parents. Through intelligent storytelling
and research-based educational games developed in collaboration with
scientists from Stanford, Kidaptive provides entertaining and adaptive
content that helps preschool children andtheir parents learn.
Kidaptive has received more than $10 million in funding from partners
including Formation 8, Menlo Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund,
NewSchools Venture Fund, and Prana Studios. More details at
Media Contact:
Karen Mahon 408-394-6140 Email
Read more news from Kidaptive.
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