Our Solution
Six Educational Topics
Our platform consists of six educational basics- numbers, colors, shapes, sizes, pictures and letters. Each of these topics on their own provide the foundation for further learning. Our system combines these topics together as your child advances in the curriculum, so that children can be exposed to the topics in different ways. This increases your child's potential to develop greater critical and analytical thinking skills, memory retention, and ability to learn quickly.
The Smarter Starter system starts out with Level 1, which teaches your child each of the six educational basics in a few different ways. For example, our Colors book includes a range of differently-colored shapes, and our Shapes book includes a range of different shapes with varying colors. This methodology serves to reinforce the same concepts in many different ways, which has been shown in multiple studies to increase retention of the material.
Some of the references we used in developing this system are below:
•“American Academy of Pediatrics Announces New Recommendations for Children's Media Use.” AAP.org, 21 Oct. 2016, https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Announces-New-Recommendations-for-Childrens-Media-Use.aspx.
•Graham, Ruth. “Once Upon a Time, Parents Thought Videos of Puppets Playing Mozart Would Make Babies Smarter.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 19 Dec. 2017, https://slate.com/technology/2017/12/the-rise-and-fall-of-baby-einstein.html.
•Hart, B. & Risley, T.R. “The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3” (2003, spring). American Educator, pp.4-9. http://www.aft.org//sites/default/files/periodicals/TheEarlyCatastrophe.pdf
•Richert, Rebekah A., et al. “Media as Social Partners: The Social Nature of Young Children’s Learning From Screen Media.” Child Development, vol. 82, no. 1, 2011, pp. 82–95.
•Fender, Jodi G., et al. “Parent Teaching Focus and Toddlers Learning from an Infant DVD.” Infant and Child Development, vol. 19, no. 6, 2010, pp. 613–627.
•Robb, Michael B., et al. “Just a Talking Book? Word Learning from Watching Baby Videos.” British Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 27, no. 1, 2009, pp. 27–45.
