Childs view of importance regarding the Foundation Phase (F.P.) and a diagram of important areas within F.P.

This Voki describes the view of a child regarding what is considered important to the child within the learning process. The child considers what is important during the Foundation Phase education.

The Voki.com offers an excellent piece of free software that can be used both to encourage the  education of children in the area of I.T as well as encourage development in language skills at the same time. The product is easy to use and can be implemented within active learning environments such as Foundation Phase choice sessions. Children can use the product on their own or within a group by taking turns and helping each other. It offers an opportunity to use role play using technology which will help them to understand animation a lot better when they practice it in Key Stage 2 using Ipads. It not only supports child-initiated learning but can also offer a practitioner an innovative way to teach a class new skills. The animation is both eye catching and entertaining. A learner could also use this software as an entertaining way of learning important information by rote. The image of characters might act as a "trigger" for memory within the brain. The negative aspect of this software is that there is little choice in character appearance for the non paying user. Also, the recording time available to a free user is only 1 minute.

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