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Educational
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| What
is so special about Skills for Success? |
Skills
For Success is the most unique educational PC football game
available for primary school children today. It brings together Football
and Education like never before. It involves Rangers Football Club and most importantly, Scottish primary school children.
The aim of Skills For Success is to encourage children of primary
school age to enjoy learning, increasing both their learning ability
and the amount of fun they have doing school homework and revision.
Many children of this age turn their attention away from school –
focusing on sport, games and other such activities instead –this
software helps to provide a fun and interactive football environment
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Skills For Success we have spent the last two years working with teachers,
parents and children to create our innovative format. Whilst compiling
our research there has been an overwhelming demand from teachers looking
for a product that engages pupils to a point where they have so much
fun that they forget that they are learning, and many children wanted
software that will help them make homework and revision more enjoyable
and easier. As a result, we have created and structured a product
in such a way that it is IMPOSSIBLE not to learn while playing thus
improving the children’s learning ability; and, as important
as all of the above, it will be priced so it will be affordable for
every child in the country which was a strong point requested by parents. |
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| Educational
Content |
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educational content has been created by teachers and boasts over 400
Curriculum compatible questions per subject and over 3000 questions
per site license. These questions were written and tested by teachers
who were familiar with the original concept, quickly recognised the
benefits of using Skills For Success in the classroom, and wanted
to contribute their knowledge and experience. These questions needed
to be written by teachers who had experience of teaching the current
Curriculum to its respective ages. The questions were tested in schools,
by teachers in different areas, to ensure that they were suitable
nationwide.
The software wasn’t created and then put out
into the market place for testing. At Skills For Success, we are
so committed to providing a solid and substantial teaching aid,
that the development was advanced in stages: and, only once we were
sure that a particular area was complete, did we ask teachers, pupils
and parents to test it and confirm that we had a full and rounded
product. The ‘League Table’ records the children’s
progress and allows them to challenge each other to try and stay
at the top. Just as in a real football table!
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‘Training Ground’ has help screens relating to the topics
covered in each subject. These provide detailed explanations
of each topic, helping children revise and consequently enabling
them to answer the questions correctly and play the game better. |
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| Playing
Skills For Success |
When
the children select a game to play, they must answer multiple-choice
questions by playing each football game in its respective way. The
6 games have their own ‘how to play’ sections, which take
them through step by step tutorials. The games develop on
a progressive level, with the main thread running throughout the software
being INVOLVEMENT, ENCOURAGEMENT and EXCITEMENT.
Answering a question correctly shows the player celebrating
with one of several backward flips or dives along the grass... exactly
what a real player would do if they scored a goal for Rangers Football
Club. The fans start to shout and scream as they would in a real game.
This gives a feeling of excitement to the child and will only enhance
the desire to get more questions correct. |
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an incorrect answer is selected then the ball will miss the goal,
leaving all incorrect answers shaded out and only the correct answer
highlighted. This allows the child to finish with the correct answer,
using reinforcement, before moving on: the child cannot move to the
next question unless he selects the highlighted answer and scores
a goal. The lack of the player celebrating a goal and the
muted sound from the fans will instil a desire to get the next question
correct.
We took the conscious decision to remove any ‘life’
systems from the game as we felt that penalising a child for failing
to get a question correct would be demoralising. Instead, we need
to encourage children to answer correctly: by doing this, they score
points; answering incorrectly they don’t receive any points,
thus limiting their movement up the league table. If a child has
opted to answer 10 questions on fractions, and the first 3 are answered
incorrectly, the child would be removed from the learning experience
using a typical life system and would have to start again. Using
our system, the child could answer 3 questions incorrectly, be given
the correct answers before being allowed to move on (positive reinforcement),
and then be allowed to continue to answer the following 7 questions.
At the end of this fun experience they are then presented
with a certificate that both records their score and encourages
them in future attempts at a higher score.
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| A
unique aspect of Skills for Success - Rangers Football Club Edition |
| Skills
For Success has been designed to be fun and engaging for every child
regardless of ability. Not only does it encourage learning across
the key subjects but it has also been proven to increase comprehension
as the only way to score is to read and answer questions correctly.
The questions are not timed out, permitting children to read through
the questions and answers carefully, or even discussing them with
friends or sourcing answers elsewhere, before attempting to score.
Questions can be answered in as much time as is needed, reducing the
chance of an incorrect answer being chosen due to a child feeling
unnecessarily pressured. The overall feel is one of a game that gives
confidence and encourages concentration, but is also extremely fun
and exciting.
A unique aspect of Skills For Success is its way
of collating children’s results; the printable high score
table represents a football league table, this adds to the overall
excitement of playing with the Rangers Football Club edition and
encourages each child to strive for the top. The bonus feature for
teachers is that all of the scores for each pupil are held on the
database, showing the total number of questions answered, the amount
scored correct, the number of incorrect answers and the overall
score. By clicking on an individual pupils name the league table
opens up further by showing a list of the 10 topics available in
each subject and gives a breakdown of the question answered for
each topic. This will allow for on going assessments,
as the league table is printable and is able to highlight areas
of strength and areas of weakness. This is a key feature for parents
as by printing the league table after every session it can show
the detailed development and improvement of their child throughout
a term.
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| The
Software |
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teachers were looking for software that didn’t have the typical
"educational software” program feel and wanted a unique
and more involving theme. So, with this in mind, when you turn on
Skills For Success Rangers Football Club you start at the entrance
to the Ibrox stadium, giving boys and girls the feeling of being involved
immediately with the Rangers football team. The game is structured
in such a way that it gives children a feeling of excitement, involvement
and wanting to answer more questions as they progress through the
game. To reiterate, the games develop on a progressive level
with the main threads running throughout the software being INVOLVEMENT,
ENCOURAGEMENT and EXCITEMENT.
The
initial reaction to Skills for Success from both teachers and pupils,
both at the BETT Show in London and the Education Show in Birmingham,
has been spectacular!
Is Curriculum Online registered and has eLC
eligibility
Contains over 3000 curriculum questions (Full School
Site Licence Version)
Can be used on any school network system
Can be used on an interactive whiteboard, using
a mouse and voting system
Allows for ongoing pupil assessment
Uses a comprehensive results table
Has 6 interactive games
Develops hand to eye co-ordination, colour recognition and
an understanding of angles
Awards printable certificates that reward
and demonstrate improvement
Includes a number of educational mini games as
a reward for steady revision
Can hold as many as 50 pupil names
Is proven to improve learning ability |
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