Papumba Academy

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CertifiedEducation quality
08/2018
Papumba Academy

Papumba Academy

Papumba
Basic Literacy
Papumba Academy is an early years education product for 2-6-year olds.

With Papumba Academy children can practice basic literacy skills like early mathematics, alphabet, logical thinking, music, and drawing. Papumba Academy is the app preferred by children ages 2 to 6 worldwide for learning while playing.

Age groups 
Preschool
Price 
Subscription
Languages 
Malasian
English
Spanish
Italian
German
French
Chinese
Russian
Hindi
Turkish
Filipino
Vietnamese
Japanese
Portuguese
Indonesian
Arabic
Platform 
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration 
Required
Offline play 
Playable offline
Pictures
Videos
Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
Papumba Academy provides a large variety of different kind of activities. Children can freely explore different areas and all content requires active engagement and provide interactivities to play with.
Rehearse
Construct
The learning process is based on exploring different areas and getting familiar with new concepts. Papumba Academy gives a nice example of a large variety of learning areas from music and arts to numbers and the alphabet.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
Papumba Academy supports free exploration. Children are free to choose what activities they want to use and how they want to progress in the game and the progress is individually based on what the child decides to do.
Individual
Collaborative
Most of the activities are done independently and at the child's own pace. Papumba Academy also provides stories and activities that are meant to be done together with parents. These activities have instructions on how parents can play with the children and instruct them to use their imagination.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Papumba Academy provides an engaging and inspiring environment to play and explore with.
Children get to familiarise with alphabets and numbers, logical thinking skills and creative thinking skills.
Papumba Academy is a safe and age appropriate environment.
The product gives positive feedback and encouragement for early learners.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Know number names and the count sequence
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality
Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20
Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals
Practising letter-sound correspondences
Practising letters recognition
Learning to repeat the letters of alphabet in order
Learning to write the alphabet

Soft skills learning goals

Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Practising visual recognition
Practicing categorization and classification
Practicing fine motor skills
Practicing memorizing skills
Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to use arts as a way to express
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Developing problem solving skills
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Practicing to notice causal connections
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Learning to listen other people’s opinions
Practicing to work with others
Practicing versatile ways of working
Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

More about the evaluation