Educational Software, Chalk Boards and Watercolour Painting ...

Article by Aspex Software Twenty years past children’s educational software was a luxury item which educational establishments did not budget for. Now it is just a normal routine part of the learning resources found in any school. During that time many new packages of children’s educational software have been hailed as the next ‘must have’ for schools, but have been relegated to the back of the store cupboard in a matter of months. Very few educational software packages have been found to have a lasting relevance and usefulness, but Aspex has created educational software which children find just as fresh and interesting as they did fifteen years ago! That is because our software encourages kids to have fun while they gain and refine skills which are vital in today’s world. Such skills include mouse control, moving and handling on-screen graphics, budgeting money, and thinking up design ideas, all of which are fast becoming abilities necessary for making a living today. To survive and prosper in this ever changing world, at various periods of history and in diverse cultural settings, requires completely different sets of skills and know how. To make a living in the wild, as shown by Bear Grylls on TV, requires skills like making fire by rubbing sticks together, and knowing which plants have roots that are edible and which ones will kill you. But that kind of know how will not help you one bit when dining at the Savoy Grill, in that case wholesale handbags you need to know how to read the carte du jour, which cutlery to use for each course and how to handle it! Kids education is at least partly about learning what you need to know to survive, and at any single time and place people will generally agree on what kids need to learn. Thus, well-born young women in Victorian England were taught to be lady-like, the important skills for them were watercolour painting, playing an instrument, singing, reciting and embroidery. These things were the needful accomplishments for attracting a suitable husband eg RICH! The study of science, Chemistry or Mathematics was regarded as quite unseemly for a Lady and therefore girls were never taught these subjects. I first went to school in the Dark Ages of the late 1950′s, and embroidery was still an important part of the curriculum for girls. I can also remember we were given a slate and a piece of chalk for writing lessons while I was an Infant in a village school in Scotland, (and I haven’t got my bus pass yet!). There have been vast technological changes in the classroom since then! In the twenty-first century the first thing children meets in the classroom is the omnipresent school computer with all its potential for learning, kids educational software programs, school websites and of course, games. Nowadays children don’t just learn to write, they even publish their own books! The computer and its software are now foundational to our children’s learning and education whether they are at school or at home. However what they can learn by using the computer is heavily influenced by the quality of the software and web-based content that the child encounters. Aspex aims to produce relevant high quality children’s educational software products and this has enabled us to create four genuinely content-free, open ended, cross-curricular design software for children, Spex for designing rooms in a house, Spexworlds! which makes it easy to design a house and other places, tabs for 3D shapes, nets and modeling, and lastly Shapes and Nets a program for school children to investigate 2D shapes and 3D shapes. A child using one of these educational software packages can use their own creativity to make a personal and unique design, perhaps a kitchen layout or a model of a rocket. Meanwhile the learning element just happens while children are having fun! All the educational software mentioned in this article can be found at http://www.aspexsoftware.com Related PostsSoftware Deployment Software Deployment and Password Reset Software The involvement of IT ser...Cisco SMARTnet Hardware and Software MaintenanceArticle by Escajeda Suel Cisco SMARTnet is often a maintenance agreem...Brewii Software BREWII SOFTWARE Are you looking for a brewii software? Well you can find t...Video Conferencing Software Review Â* What do these guys have in common? · Mike Filsaime · Tellman Knudson · ...Database Marketing Software Customer databases represent the central element of database marketing. T...