doodle learning reviews 2024,the maths and English apps for 4-14 year olds
What is DoodleLearning?
DoodleLearning is 4 apps (doodlemaths, doodleenglish, doodlespell, and doodletables) that follow the UK curriculum, aimed at kids aged 4 to 14. doodlemaths is early years to Year 9 (England) and doodleenglish is Year1 to Year 6 (England).
doodle learning official site: https://doodlelearning.com/
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Kids sit a baseline test first for each app, which is short set of exercises that allows Doodle to start personalizing their program. Then the idea is that kids complete a ten-minute task per day following the personalized program set by Doodle. This helps fill in their learning gaps and consolidates their knowledge.
DoodleLearning has been used by over one million children, and is also used in hundreds of schools both in the UK and internationally. And it’s not just homeschool / travel kids that use it, the majority of kids are using the app to support regular schooling.
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DoodleLearning app
Does the app online work when connected to the internet?
The really great thing for families who travel is that every Doodle app can be used offline on tablets, phones, and laptops, enabling kids to learn anywhere, anytime. This is brilliant for flights and road trips, where there is no internet access.
What device to kids need for DoodleLearning?
Our boys use the Amazon Fire Kindles for their DoodleLearning. It works perfectly.
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However, if you opt for DoodleCoaching (see below), this can only be done on a desktop or laptop.
Our experience with DoodleLearning
We used DoodleLearning for our 4 months traveling Morocco and 10 weeks backpacking Southeast Asia when each time we deregistered the boys from school for a worldschooling adventure. The fact that we decided to do DoodleLearning again for the second trip shows what a success it was for us!
The personalized learning plan works really well so that they never feel something is too easy or too hard. Both our boys seem to enjoy the quick and interactive questions from the DoodleLearning apps. If they get a question wrong, they can go back after completing the quiz to redo them, or save them as a ‘tricky question’ to revisit at a later date.
The stars they collect along the way can be used to spend on building up a character and scene on each app (for example, it’s a Wizards room for doodlespell). But they can only do this when they’re in the ‘green zone,’ which is when they’ve collected a certain amount of stars on each app. This incentivizes kids to keep learning on the app. Although if they’re quiet on the app for a while, it probably means they’re playing in this game zone rather than actually doing any learning; so it’s something to keep an eye on.
The Parent Dashboard
From the Parent Dashboard, you can keep track of your child’s learning by seeing how often and how long they are on the app, what level they’re working at, as well as see where your child sits academically for their age and year group for each app.
If you have noticed that your child is whizzing through the questions at ease, you can get them to do the baseline questions again with a click of a button in the Parent Dashboard. It’s recommended that you should only really do this once per term.
Whilst all kids learn at different levels and speeds, if you’ve taken your child out of school to travel, it can be reassuring (hopefully) to see where they’re at, as well as see if they’re progressing. It really is amazing to see what a difference a little bit every day makes!
DoodleCoaching
To support the learning on doodlemaths there is the option to join a weekly online small-group tutoring session with a highly trained coach through DoodleCoaching.
These sessions are delivered through a purpose-built platform, and involve a group discussion with up to 4 other children, and dedicated 1:1 time with the coach. This gives kids the opportunity to talk through any challenging concepts, set goals to work towards and keeps them motivated and accountable.
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DoodleCoaching
Kids are assigned a group according to their personality rather than their age, and siblings will generally be put in separate groups.
They are also sent a DoodleLearning Journal which they use with each session to keep a note of what they have achieved and their goals; a great way to keep them accountable and to look back on to see how far they’ve come!
Doodle Learning Journal
Doodle Learning Journal
The DoodleCoaching Journal to compliment the DoodleCoaching sessions
The only tricky thing we’ve found with this is that the DoodleCoaching needs to be delivered on a laptop (the boys generally use their Amazon Fire Kindles for online learning). This just means that the boys have to use my laptop instead, and I can’t really do any work at the same time.
DoodleCoaching
How much is DoodleLearning?
You can sign up for a 7-day free trial on doodlemaths. I very much recommend doing this to get a feel for it and see how it works for your child.
Click here for the current pricing. Pricing varies according to which apps you would like your child to do, and if you are getting the app(s) for just one child, or the whole family. At the time of writing an annual family subscription for all four apps is £159.99. doodlemaths only for one child is £12.99 er month.
Final thoughts on DoodleLearning
I really think it’s brilliant. Just ten minutes of the DoodleLearning learning per day can make such a difference. And I love how kids can still do the app when offline. Perfect for car and bus journeys on our travels.
However, this isn’t to replace schooling, it’s to support schooling. Whilst there is the online coaching for doodlemaths (at an additional cost), there is no coaching for the other three apps. I personally believe that kids still need a parent or teacher to sit down with them and work through things. Plus, for doodleenglish, this focuses on grammar and comprehension, there is no physical handwriting.
For our worldschooling travels, DoodleLearning has been a fantastic added bonus to support the online schooling with Amy from TuitionUP.
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