Why is iWhiz design so crucial for your child’s success at school.
iWhiz is self-paced, learning on the go.
The importance of mobile devices over the last decade has grown spectacularly in education. Mobile or m-learning today are sharing best practices and creating new opportunities for our students as well as their teachers and parents. This new technological era is going to change the way we live and access education.
Mobile learning is not about the technology, it is about the learner. The learner is mobile and is at the centre of the learning, and the technology allows the learner to learn in any context.
Mobile learning is a social rather than technical phenomenon of learners on the move, constructing spontaneous learning contexts and advancing through everyday life by negotiating knowledge and meanings through interactions with settings, people and technology. This is the basis of 21st century learning.
Through the use of mobile technology, iWhiz is rewiring the education process, taking what typically occurred within a forty-minute class period and stretching it out to meet students where they are… on their devices in small 3-minute animated video, sustaining their learning for longer.
Empowers Learning Anywhere at Anytime
Thanks to the forgetting curve, we understand that learners will forget a percentage of what they learned from undertaking their lessons. Over time the percentage increases as the time between when they did the learning to applying what they learned increases. Take a look at the graphic below which highlights the forgetting curve in further detail.
The forgetting curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.
iWhiz design is to the beat this curve or, at the very least, curb its decline. If students have access to their lessons whenever they want or need it, it means they can recap and refresh whenever they like.
Take, for example, the chart above. The green line shows the place where the forgetting curve would start if we had the ability to remember everything after a lesson. The blue line shows where the forgetting curve actually starts— around 75%. Now take a look at the red line. This line shows a dramatic increase in memory if students review material.
Unfortunately, it also shows that without additional intervention one day after material is learned content is lost, and one week after, recall is almost as if the review never happened at all.
So, is there a way to maintain the initial recall after review? Yes, you simply have to keep at it. While an initial review of material will help you remember in the short term, reviewing material multiple times and at different intervals will help you retain it for much longer.
The chart below shows how review affects memory. You can see that every time you review material you both retain much more information, and your forgetting curve steadies out at a much higher level. Each time you review material you take much more away. Research indicates that the minimum amount of review is three.
(Source: Dr John Wittman)
With iWhiz review really means watching a fun, animated 3-minute video again. Learning just couldn’t get any easier.
