A to Z safari

An alphabet app designed by Deakin University researchers specialising in literacy education, IT and graphic design to support children beginning to learn letter-sound relationships using research into memory retention. Tested with Australian primary school students, the ‘form-taking’ images used in this app have been found to be more effective at assisting children to learn common letter-sound relationships than images that are not form-taking (e.g. integrated images).
A to Z Safari offers engaging mini-games to explore and reinforce letter-sound relationships, along with a password-protected admin/data area where students’ progress and gameplay statistics are recorded – data which can be emailed directly to the teacher.
A to Z Safari has not been designed to replace classroom activities, but was designed as an electronic application to complement them. An A3-sized alphabet chart accompanies the app in the teacher area so that teachers can print the charts out to place on their students’ tables for their reference outside of game play.

由迪肯大学致力于读写教育、信息技术和图形设计的学者们设计的一款字母应用，旨在通过深入研究记忆保持机制，辅助儿童学习字母与发音之间的关系。该应用已在澳大利亚的小学学生中进行测试，结果显示，其中采用的‘形状捕捉’图像在帮助儿童学习常见的字母与发音关系方面，比非形状捕捉图像（例如，整合图像）更为有效。《A to Z Safari》提供了一系列引人入胜的小型游戏，以探索和强化字母与发音的关系，同时设有密码保护的行政/数据区域，用于记录学生的进度和游戏统计信息——教师可以直接将此类数据通过电子邮件发送。该应用并非旨在取代课堂活动，而是作为电子辅助工具，以补充课堂活动。在教师区域还附有一张A3尺寸的字母表图表，以便教师可以将其打印出来放置在学生桌子上的参考材料，以便学生在游戏之外进行查阅。