We are living through a turning point. Globally, we share a feeling of insecurity for the future. Health crises, climate change, inequality…What comes next? One thing is certain – the youth of today will be the change-makers of tomorrow. It’s time for change and time to give children a new form of learning. We are Twin, a new educational experience that upskills children with physical and digital products.
Why join our mission?
We’ve spent the last 10 years working with kids, teaching them, and learning from them. As of today, Twin has reached 400,000 children, 1,200 schools and 15 countries. Our partnerships with the likes of London Business School, Imperial College London, Ford, Boeing and Rolls-Royce give kids access to first-rate future skills in a way that’s fun.
And we’re proud to say that we’ve gathered 2.6 m dollars ın revenue cumulatively. With COVID, education at home gained more importance and it boosted our kits sales. We have grown 5 times within the last 6 months. Now is the perfect time to join us and share this journey.
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What exactly is Twin?
Twin isn’t about technology. It’s about learning. Twin is a complete educational program which makes learning playful, individual, and wholesome. Using our Twing mobile app, science kits, and curriculum of playful lessons, kids aged 5-13 grow their confidence, interests, and STEAM skills.
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The word of the day is “hybrid learning.” Actually, it’s two words and a term that has now cemented itself as a fixture in educational circles, especially in the time of Covid-19. There’s a plethora of articles already out there about hybrid learning, but perhaps after reading the 100th one today you still feel a little confused. Hopefully this post will act as a clarifier on what exactly the benefits of a hybrid learning model are and how you can support your child’s hybrid learning. Here’s everything you need to know.
What is Hybrid Learning?
Hybrid learning is an approach to learning that simultaneously combines online and in-person teaching to create the ideal learning experience. An instructor using a this kind of model delivers live lessons in a classroom and to students studying remotely at the same time. Along with its synchronous (live) lessons, hybrid learning may also include asynchronous (non-live) online learning tool and methods like pre-recorded video instruction and online assignments to support in-person classroom initiatives. A hybrid learning model may include but is not limited to:
Video conferencing
Online assignments and tests
Online exercises
Online discussion forums
Pre-recorded video instruction
COVID-19 and Hybrid Learning
In the last twenty years we’ve seen a gradual shift of teaching to online spaces. In recent years classrooms have adopted a ‘blended learning’ model that requires in-person attendance and employs asynchronous tools. Now, however, the onset of Covid-19 and the worldwide disturbance it has brought to our lives, especially to the education sector, has prompted schools to head online at warp speed. Currently, hybrid learning has become a core strategy for many educational (and non-educational) institutions that wish to reopen. Educators can use a this strategy to engage students and rotate them in and out of the classroom so that they may take turns attending classes in person and online.
The Benefits of Hybrid Lessons
While the traditional and online education models both have their drawbacks, hybrid learning seems to have found a happy medium between the two models. One of its benefits is that it has increased educational access for students. In the past, in-person teaching required all students to be within traveling distance throughout the duration of their course to receive an education. However, with hybrid learning, this is not necessarily the case – students may have access to learning from remote locations, which can attract students from a wider range of locations, increasing student turnout. Additionally, hybrid learning encourages both educators and students to prioritize classroom time and take advantage of a wide variety of teaching resources. By reducing class sizes a hybrid learning experience can provide students with valuable face-to-face contact time. Moreover, this way of learning encourages the adoption of EdTech, which can boost interactivity, act as supplemental material to pre-existing curricula and reinforce lesson plans more deeply in students.
Support Your Child’s Hybrid Education with Twin STEM Kits & Twin App
The age of EdTech platforms is now. With Covid-19 it is important now more than ever to ensure that a child gets everything they can out of their education. Learning and finding ways to conceptualize materials presented in class in an engaging and fun way is key to a child’s progress in their educational and personal life. This fact has only become more relevant as students are being asked to conceptualize lessons without the structure of a traditional classroom.
Twin presents children and educators a new way to embrace play time through STEM toys and our educational Twin app, which can be easily integrated with pre-existing lesson plans. Our team has developed STEM Kits that teach children about robotics, science, and technology like never before. Twin empowers children to leverage the resources at their disposal to enhance their hybrid learning with playful, individual, and wholesome educational experience. Children are encouraged to design, build and code with easy and safe to use electronic modules to create an infinite number of projects.
Will online learning become a mainstay in schools even after COVID-19 is eradicated? Experts believe that online learning will in fact continue to play a role in student’s lives and be further integrated into education, especially since there are now efforts on how to improve the hybrid learning model. To best support today’s and future students, we recommend parents to equip their children with EdTech resources like Twin to not only supplement their education, but to enhance it.
What is analytical thinking? It is a computer like way to solve analytical problems. Why should we think like computers? How can we foster our kids’ analytical thinking? We will look for answers to these questions in this blog.
What is analytical thinking?
Analytical thinking is built on 4 concepts: abstraction, pattern defining, decomposition and algorithmic thinking. An algorithm is an instruction used frequently in many of the technologies. Algorithmic thinking is also seen in our daily life. “If this happens, then do this” and many other conditional phrases are examples of it. We call the ability to solve problems by ranking the concepts and taking out the irrelevant ones, “analytical thinking”.
How do kids learn analytical thinking?
Lessons like maths might seem tough at the beginning. Analytical thinking might also seem like it requires a wide knowledge of technological devices. Infact, it is an interdisciplinary area that can be learned with sources found in each classroom. For example, books and daily technologies are great tools to enhance your analytic skills. Besides, imagination is the besy way to improve it and no source is required!
You can also learn from 100 Twin Curriculums. You can foster you students’ learning with this curriculum. What else? We have 5 tips for you to use Twin sources in your lectures in our blog.
A good sleep is the key to a better learning experience. A poor sleeping schedule may affect your kids’ growth in a highly negative way leading problems in attention span. Why should we care about our children’s sleeping schedule? What happens as a result of a poor sleep? Why is sleep so important to enhace learning. We came up with 5 important points to answer these questions.
1. Proper sleep fosters planning skills.
Lack of sleep may cause damage on brain’s area which is responsible from planning and problem solving. Thus, kids have trouble in figuring out easy tasks or they lose their school materials. They might also find it difficult to prioritize their homeworks. An insufficient amount of sleep also decreases kids’ response time.
2. A poor sleep makes them angry and weak.
Kids’ bodies produce energy to start the next day better while sleeping. If a kid cannot get proper sleep, he might feel frustrated. They might have trouble joining in teamworks and adopting to what is around them. If your kids suffer from such issues for more than 2-4 weeks, consult your doctor.
3. A good sleep increases attention span.
According to researches, lack of sleep cause brain to feel like sleeping while awake. So, kids that cannot get enough sleep may have a decrease in their attention span. They may have trouble in focusing. They have a great tendency to make mistakes or concentrate on something for a period of time.
4. Sleeping enhances memory.
When kids do not get enough sleep, their memory is affected at the first place. A brain that lacks sleep has difficulties on focusing. So, it makes it a lot more difficult to remember new things properly. A poor sleeping schedule might also damage the forming of memories. For example, if a kid learns a new topic at school, he may forget it the next day.
5. Sleep affects creativity.
Creativity is connected to memory and attention. Lack of sleep affects these two as well as creativity negatively. Brain refreshes itself during sleep. A brain that doesn’t do so, cannot produce something new. Thus, you cannot expect a kids who doesn’t get enough sleep to be creative.
“When I first came to this workshop, I was a bit confused, and a bit nervous of what was going to happen. But once I got into it, it was a lot of fun and I made a lot of friends and the races were a lot of fun. The instructions were so straightforward, and it was really easy and fun to do it.” (Visually Impaired Student, RSBC)
At Twin Science, we seek out every opportunity to bridge the education gap in our communities. We wish to close this gap and ensure that all children receive equal educational opportunities by ensuring our products are accessible and that we focus our resources to delivering the latest technologies to the most disadvantaged and underserved kids. Our purpose for doing this is to develop kids of all backgrounds with double wings. The first wing represents strong competences in different subject areas while the second wing denotes highly developed 21st century skills and a strong sense of social responsibility. We hope to accomplish this through delivering a wholesome STEAM education to the coming generations.
Our workshop with the Royal Society for Blind Children London was focused on delivering advanced, yet fun and engaging educational projects suited to their needs. Our workshop proved to be a success and demonstrated that science has a unifying power. Our team guided students through a number of projects that were accessible and fitted their needs without sacrificing any of the important skill-development aspects of the projects. At the end of the day, we saw that the students were able to design and build autonomous vehicles with our Twin Kits!
At first, the students seemed to question their ability to build these projects and interact with the technologies in the Twin Kits. With some encouragement and some explanation, however, the students quickly embraced the core goals of our projects and jumped into everything with confidence and excitement. Soon, they were playing with the modules, going beyond guided projects and taking the initiative to discover new creations without much direction needed by our team. Each time they learned a new feature of the technologies, they were encouraged to go further. At the end of the day, students expressed that they were surprised with they accomplished and that they had more confidence to learn about and design new creations. The technology that seemed tough at the beginning was now easy-peasy!
The workshop’s main focus was to inspire the students to discover how fun they could have when encouraged to go out of their comfort zone and learn new things. We saw that not only did we achieve this, but also our team and RSBC volunteers really enjoyed the workshop a lot. They joined in with the construction of the cars while guiding kids with instructions – we saw this left a lasting impression on the students and volunteers because they were able to make valuable and deep connections by working together.
“It was fascinating session. I have never done anything like this before while volunteering with RSBC.” Steve Tomkins (Dedicated Volunteer, RSBC)
What was so encouraging for our team was that the students expressed that besides feeling accomplished for completing their project, they felt that they could use their skills to solve real-life problems outside of confines of the workshop. We actively encouraged the students to reflect on the work they did with our team to ensure they developed a good understanding of the material at hand and to impart the underlying message of leveraging technologies and skills to affect a positive change in the world.
We truly enjoyed our workshop with the students of the Royal Society for Blind Children London and look forward to working them again, along other education institutions.
If you want to have a workshop with us at your organization , please send us an email: [email protected]
“There is AI or Machine Learning in so many of the most popular websites, apps, and online tools – including the ones kids love! To understand, and to be safe in the modern world it’s so important for kids to know how computers can learn. It was great to be invited to join the Who Wants to Be a Twinner show and help the kids explore the world of AI in such a fun way.” Brendan Hills (Customer Engineer, Google Cloud)
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools were closed, upending children’s education across the globe. There on after, there’s been a ceaseless effort by educational institutions and parents, and everything in between, to identify and mitigate the issues brought on by the drastic changes to children’s school life and home life.
At Twin, we take this situation to heart – since our inception, our understanding of our role as an EdTech company has meant to us that we take active strides to becoming a leading member of the community, one that is committed to delivering a better education for the coming generations. With this in mind and being cognizant of the realities wrought on by the pandemic, Twin has taken concrete steps towards this goal by starting our STEM QUEST SHOWs in cooperation with Creative Futures Imperial College London and Royal Academy of Engineering. Every week, for a period of 12 weeks, we welcomed kids from around the world to spend an hour learning about science.
Who Wants to be a Twinner?
The idea behind STEM QUEST was to engage kids in fun and interactive activities while also teaching them about new fields within science. We welcomed kids from all over to join as our co-hosts, including from countries like Nigeria, United Kingdom, Turkey, Ghana, United States of America, United Arab Emirates, and many more. Each episode we reached over 200 students – all of which were joining our live Zoom sessions through our live chat.
We created a game-show type environment to encourage kids to speak up and be engaged in the Q&As while making sure to reiterate to those participating that the session was not a competition but a forum to discuss and explore new information and skills. Our co-hosts and moderators came from diverse backgrounds and were accompanied with years of experience in their fields, including years spent as educators. Throughout our interactive show, we asked questions about various fields of STEAM including physics, arts, zoology, space, and so much more! The kids were amazed to learn about all of these things and actively engaged in problem solving to figure out the how and why these things worked – and why they mattered.
Our team worked to find the most entertaining and suitable questions for kids aged between 8-13, but we were not alone! Thanks to our dream partners, Mr. Sunday, Kamini, Vargini and volunteers from Google, we came up with unique content each show. Volunteers from Google shared their work and knowledge on computer programming as well as artificial intelligence. Their insight and perspective of life inspired kids a lot, and their support was highly appreciated.
In each session we committed time to reflecting on what we learned and what we could do to continue discovering new things. A significant part of this discussion was talking about Twing, Twin’s flagship product, which is a free mobile app designed for children to discover scientific content using games and fun experiments. After each show we encouraged them to play and recreate STEAM experiments at home so they could share what they learned with us in the next session.
It was encouraging to see with each following episode kids came with renewed energy and sense of curiosity to discover more topics.
What’s Next?
The outreach we were able to accomplish through this show was very impactful. It was so successful that we were encouraged to continue the STEM QUEST into another season! Twin is committed to increasing its outreach, especially during these times. If you wish to join the upcoming season as a co-host send us an email ([email protected]).
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