"The JumpStart franchise continues to evolve, revealing today the details of its upcoming releases for the Wii platform, JumpStart Pet Rescue and JumpStart Escape from Adventure Island."
Torrance, Calif., June 2, 2009
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JumpStart’s Virtual World Teaches Kids While They’re Busy Having Fun
When it comes to educational software, the trick is to make kids think they’re just playing a traditional escapist game, while they’re really being surreptitiously fed facts and logic problems that put their brains to work. But while many games have done this for years, the technique hasn’t really made the jump to online virtual worlds - most of the kid-friendly virtual worlds are more focused on socializing and having fun than learning. Now JumpStart, a best-selling educational software developer, is looking to fill this niche with its new JumpStart Virtual World, which launched this week in public beta.
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Knowledge Adventure has an online world set to launch this summer. To access the fun parts of the online world, such as areas where kids can race against one another, users have to earn points on educational exercises. Parents will be able to tweak the types of assignments the online game world doles out; if a child is falling behind in math, for example, the game can dispense more math-related activities.
"Think of it as World of Warcraft for 3- to 10-year-olds," said David Lord, chief executive of the Torrance, Calif., company.
Michael H. Levine, executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which studies how technology can be used to speed children's learning, seemed to like the idea.
Washington Post, May 2008
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“JumpStart Advanced Preschool World is a feast for the eyes and senses. Butterflies float by, birds sing and the friendly characters teach by sharing experiences. They will talk about the importance of eating a healthy breakfast, of exercising and brushing your teeth daily. They explain how having friends means sharing your things and they ask children to do that in the game…there's a lot of fun and learning to be had.”
USA Today, May, 2008
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“The ride-height requirement on virtual worlds is about to move down a few inches. Knowledge Adventure, the maker of kids' educational game software JumpStart, plans Monday to begin selling virtual world software for 3- to 5-year-olds. The software, called JumpStart Advanced Preschool World, will encourage kids to learn their ABCs by playing games in a 3D version of the beach or a jungle, with heavy use of voice and images instead of text. And it will give young ones their first taste of creating and decorating an avatar.”
CNET News.com, May 2008
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