Education and Entertainment as Effective Tools of ABCya

1. ABCya Games describes itself as “the best educational platform for kids and teachers”. In 2004, ABCya was designed by public school teacher Alan Tortolani by drawing inspiration from his very own students. ABCya.com took over as online site name of the game as it was a simple handle that can effortlessly memorized and entered by its young users. ABCya is currently playable via its website and also as a mobile device program. It is available internationally in over 150 countries. ”Edutainment”, or teaching children whilst entertaining them, is main objective in developing ABCya. While being developed, ABCya has always carefully weighed in two factors. First, children have relatively low attention spans; they either easily get distracted or bored. Second, children should always be presented the opportunity to learn in their everyday lives. ABCya reconciled these two realities not just as a mere fact but also as an opportunity. For that reason, ABCya became a holistic tool for all involved - children, parents, and teachers - basically facilitating the learning process of children while also enabling a fun environment. ABCya is not a single game. It is much more of a platform where over 250 specially developed games are compiled, making access not only widely accessible for any of its users, it also allows extensive selections for children which aims to avoid one of the glaring difficulties parents and teachers face - boredom. Additionally, completely new games are added each month in order to always stimulate the kids. Kids can readily choose what fascinates them the most and it also gives parents and teachers an insight on what their kids or students are actually interested in. As ABCya has consistently integrated education and entertainment and it has also combined other characteristics that make it a good application for children. There are grade level segregation for all its games to make certain age appropriateness of each and every content. Pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 are the various groupings in ABCya. Noticeably, games are more complex as the grade increases. Where grade 1 games are all about repetitious action with simple instructions, higher grades would involve more problem solving in niche subjects like aviary. Another significant feature of ABCya is that games have exceptionally wide genres. The choices can go from knowledge-based themes like mathematics to more skill type games like ABCya Animate or artistic apps like ABCya Paint. By dividing it this way, ABCya maintains the variety of its games, a feature that it always wants to uphold. ABCya’s main audience is undoubtedly children, but it has brought into consideration all the stakeholders which are involved with the learning process of a child. The best thing about ABCya, however, is how it strives to make learning a fun process and how its young users do not even realize how their knowledge in various subjects is flourishing. https://sites.google.com/view/abcya-pc