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ChooseIt! Ready-Mades Numeracy Series - BETT Awards Feedback
• There are clear links between the product and the Early Learning Goals, National Numeracy Strategy and the Maths National Curriculum (including handling money).
• The activities are attainable yet become progressively more difficult.
• Provides opportunities to take risks and make mistakes with no negative feedback, in a non-threatening environment.
• Meets a very wide range of needs - not just SEN - allowing SEN students to work alongside their peers.
• There are many ways that this programme can be used to personalise learning.
• The pace of learning can be easily varied.
• Provides a good range of pictures, photos, stimuli and interest areas.
• Feedback can be altered to meet the needs of the user.
• There is a wide range of rewards used and they are not repetitive.
• There are many relevant questions for each subject area.
• There are definite opportunities for scaffolding.
• It could be used by the student independently to promote learner autonomy.
• The teacher can set the difficulty level.
• There are pictures and photographs of relevant objects for young children.
• Addresses a good balance of learning styles:
- visual and verbal
- visual and non-verbal
- tactile and kinaesthetic
- auditory and verbal.
• Allows learners to move on by themselves. It automatically progresses from 2-6 options.
• Provides teacher with direct feedback and suggests what the student needs to do next. The feedback can be printed out and kept.
• The technology has been used appropriately to increase learners' confidence by using brilliant rewards and not showing failure.
• Increases learners' self-awareness by using real life situations.
• The interface is very well thought out and easy to use without training.
• An excellent range of accessibility options.
• It has a brilliant combination of ready-made resources and options to create your own.
• It is a high quality product in an under-served market.