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06/2025
Flashacademy

Flashacademy

Flashacademy
English language learning
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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
The product offers a diverse range of engaging learning opportunities through various interactive activities, significantly enhancing user motivation and involvement. It provides consistent and encouraging feedback, positively reinforcing user experience. The teacher's control panel is highly effective, enabling educators to effortlessly track student progress, distribute tasks, and manage evaluations in a centralized and intuitive interface.
Rehearse
Construct
The solution effectively leverages observational learning, offering students the opportunity to learn by seeing or hearing clear examples and samples. Progression within the system is primarily driven by students replicating provided instructions, guiding them systematically through their learning paths.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
The product typically provides clear instructions, including distinct starting and finishing points for most exercises. The product generates valuable data that can be shared with families to support grading and feedback discussions.
Individual
Collaborative
The solution offers a flexible learning environment where users can progress independently and at their own pace, without requiring interaction or competition with others.

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

The product will serve a wide range of users, providing teachers with assessment tools and clearly reducing the burden of assessment and continuous assignment on the teacher. A versatile product.

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

positive and negative human interactions with ecosystems
How organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment, including the accumulation of toxic materials.
Learn how to use subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using or, and, or but).
Learn how to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly].
Writing for different purposes.
Write sentences by sequencing sentences to form short narratives.
Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far.
Apply simple spelling rules and guidance.
Spelling words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught.
Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings.
Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known.
Recognising and joining in with predictable phrases.

Soft skills learning goals

Practicing to improvise
Learning to view and consider media and advertising critically
Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
Practicing to use information independently and interactively
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Understanding concepts of music and familiarizing with different notations
Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to observe spoken and written language
Practicing fine motor skills
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Practicing memorizing skills
Practicing decision making
Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
Learning about different languages
Practicing time management
Learning to use foreign language in work context
Encouraging positive attitude towards working life
Using technology as a part of explorative process
Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
Using technology for interaction and collaboration (also internationally)
Practicing to use foreign language as a communication tool
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
Learning the basics of spelling
Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
Learning to find solutions in social conflicts
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to use arts as a way to express
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing creative thinking
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Practicing to set one's own learning goals
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing persistent working
Learning to notice causal connections
Practising visual recognition
Practicing categorization and classification
Learning to know and respect human rights
Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety
Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety
Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Supporting the growth of environmental awareness
Recognizing habits that are good for sustainable living
Practicing to recognize and express feelings
Practicing strategic thinking
Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife
Practicing versatile ways of working
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Learning consumer knowledge and smart economics
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust
Practicing communication through different channels
Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
Learning to listen other people’s opinions
Practicing to work with others
Learning about different countries and their characteristics
Learning about cultural aspects and to respect different cultures
Getting familiar with different cultures
Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners

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.

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