empowering teachers, engaging students, enhancing learning

empowering teachers, engaging students, enhancing learning

MISSION: To become the world’s online platform for all things education.

introducing zondle• zondle is a free web and mobile platform that empowers

teachers to engage students and enhance learning.

• zondle empowers teachers: enabling them to create and share educational content to meet the specific learning needs of individual students.

• zondle engages students: motivating them and giving them ownership of their learning, through their choice of web and mobile games.

• zondle enhances learning: consolidating classroom work, preparing for high-stakes tests, all without any marking.

zondle empowers teachersTeachers can (for example):

• Create questions (any language, any subject, any level) or mash together any of the 1.4 million questions created by other users, to meet individual or group needs;

• teach using our unique whole-class teaching game;

• set questions for students to play in games or as summative assessment (no marking!);

• monitor progress (in the zondle grade book);

• connect with other teachers worldwide.

monitoring progress

monitoring progress

zondle engages studentsStudents can (for example):

• play questions set by their teacher in any of 60+ games, online or mobile;

• create, play and practice their own questions;

• monitor their progress;

• collect points and badges;

• compete on leaderboards;

• create their own reward games.

web and mobile games(some examples)

zondle enhances learningzondle:

• is grounded in education, psychology and neuroscience research (from the universities of Oxford and Bristol);

• creates heightened moments of engagement (increased synaptic dopamine), which teachers can exploit for learning;

• encourages students to engage with the learning content, to encode into long-term memory and automatize;

• enables students to consolidate classroom learning, or prepare for high-stakes testing.

games-based teaching

games-based teaching

zondle topics• Supports any subject, any level and any language.

• More than 1.4 million questions have been created on zondle (by teachers and students).

• Questions are in a wide range of formats (including, multiple choice, cloze procedure, label the picture...)

• Represents at least 10,000 hours of work freely given by teachers.

• Started to add some partner- and teacher-created premium content.

creating zondle topics

creating zondle topics

zondle games• More than 60 short immersive or reward learning games

(web and mobile: Apple, Android, Kindle Fire).

• Designed to be quick to play (so that they can be integrated in typical time pressured classrooms).‐

• Designed to be fun and engaging (to encourage students to engage with the educational content repeatedly, until they achieve automaticity).

• Also includes a whole-class teaching game (zondle Team Play), grounded in neuroscience research.

zondle games

zondle games

using zondle topics and games• Teachers create, choose, customise or mash together

questions to meet specific learning needs.

• Teachers set the questions to their students (to consolidate learning, for formative or summative assessment, or to prepare for high-stakes tests).

• Students play and practise the questions in any of zondle’s games (on the web or a mobile device).

• Teachers monitor student progress in the zondle gradebook (no marking!)

using zondle topics and gamesDatabase of

educational contentDatabase of casual games

zondle interpreter

8,000,000+ topic and game combinations

using zondle topics and games

additional functionality• Zollars (zondle Dollars to reward student performance:

23 billion Zollars have been awarded).

• zondle Teacher Community (teachers can now create their own profiles to help them find other teachers: 1,300 teachers have created profiles).

• zondle Class View (a locked-down interface for use by younger children).

• Others include: animated reward game development tool, SDK (software development kit), Raspberry Pi kit...

zondle connect

WHERE WHAT TIME

Classroom

Discussion: What makes a good quality revision/review question? 5

Using a previous topic studied in class (teacher’s choice!), each student creates one good quality question.

5

Students feedback to class. 5Using the same class topic, each student creates a total of five good quality questions. 15

Computer room

Students log onto zondle, create a zondle topic and enter their five questions. 20

Students play their zondle topic in any zondle game. 5

Students play a friend’s topic in any zondle game, and give votes for the topics. 5

Computer room

Students create a zondle game. 20Students play their topic in their zondle game. 5Students play their topic in their friends’ zondle games, and give votes for the games. 5

possible zondle lesson plan

testimonials“I can’t praise you highly enough for your efforts with zondle, it reaches students that I teach EVERY day.” Mr Branchflower (Australia)

“zondle has changed the way I look at teaching. An amazing tool and a vision of education that totally resonates with how I feel.” Mr Giotto (USA)

“OMG I only recently found zondle and all I can say is WOW!! I teach HS biology to at risk students. Using zondle has added that extra spark they needed to prepare for our state test in 2 weeks. Some of my kids have even come during my planning period to play more games so they can be the zondle dollar leader in their class. Unbelieveable. I now dream in zondle!!!” Mrs Goshert (USA)

“Thank you so much for your help and dedication to the current (and future!) students and teachers using your wonderful zondle program! You and your team are pioneers of a program that is bringing lots of fun in learning to all ages. :) A small team making a big difference!” Ms Tadsen (USA)

“I am in awe of you and the platform you have created. I am so amazed: I feel it's a dream. Pinch me. Wonderful a teacher’s dream :)” Orlanda Cline (USA)

empowering teachersengaging studentsenhancing learning

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