KidsOnline

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CertifiedEducation quality
10/2021
KidsOnline

KidsOnline

KidsOnline
Early learning
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KidsOnline is a cloud-based kindergarten management system

KidsOnline is a cloud-based kindergarten management system with a smart app for school-parent communication. KidsOnline automates multiple routine tasks, reducing workload for teachers and administrators, and helping teachers have more time for their students. Parents get a rich report of their child's activities in class, including automated attendance check info, pictures, and personalized assessment reports to their phones.

Age groups 
Preschool
Platform 
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration 
Required
Offline play 
Internet required
Pictures
KidsOnline uses a handy mobile app for day-to-day check in and documentation.

KidsOnline uses a handy mobile app for day-to-day check in and documentation.

The attendance check uses facial recognition.

The attendance check uses facial recognition.

The parents can easily access reports from Kindergarten through an app.

The parents can easily access reports from Kindergarten through an app.

The reports help parents to stay updated on how their child is doing and what she/he has learned.

The reports help parents to stay updated on how their child is doing and what she/he has learned.

The learning activities timetable is also available via the application.

The learning activities timetable is also available via the application.

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
Although KidsOnline's main purpose is to be a Learning Management system for preschools, there are plenty of features that support also learning from home. The solution provides pre-curated material to support parents and home-based learning, and the activities done in the preschool are well communicated to the parent's side.
Rehearse
Construct
As a communication tool, KidsOnline is very strong. The communication with parents shows that students' work is not going to be unnoticed, and that keeps also the children motivated and interested. The students are able to reflect on their work once the work is communicated back to their parents.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
The tool allows students to learn through exploration and reflection in their own way. As the tool's aim is to allow communication to occur between learners, teachers, and parents, learning is only achieved through communication and reflection. This supports giving attention to the individual needs of each child.
Individual
Collaborative
Features such as albums are a great way to visually communicate about projects, so they encourage doing collaboration projects in the student group, and share it with all parents. Collaboration between parents and children can flourish as the tool is designed in a way that parents can understand the child's strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and be in constant collaboration with the preschool.

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

KidsOnline has good documentation and communication tools that help to keep parents and preschools in constant collaboration about the child's learning.
The app has plenty of good features for managing the day-to-day actions in preschools.
The app supports teachers well by decreasing their work when creating teaching or learning plans.

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

Children's interest in music is reinforced.
Children's relationship with nature and responsible activities in the environment are strengthened.
Children's curiosity and interest in languages, texts and cultures is reinforced.
Rhymes, songs, naming objects, and reading and telling stories are used to support language development.
Children can experiment with different tools and materials of visual expression
Children practice their visual thinking, perception and interpretation of images.
Children are encouraged to enjoy the outdoors and exercise during all seasons.
Children become acquainted with ICT equipment and technical solutions.
Children are encouraged to exploratory and experimental ways of working.
Children are encouraged to ask questions.
Developing the children's mathematical thinking and supporting positive attitude towards mathematics.

Soft skills learning goals

Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Practicing communication through different channels
Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources
Practising visual recognition
Practicing memorizing skills
Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
Practicing to use arts as a way to express
Practicing strategic thinking
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Practicing categorization and classification
Learning to notice causal connections
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing to set one's own learning goals
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Developing problem solving skills
Learning to find solutions in social conflicts
Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
Learning to listen other people’s opinions
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms

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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