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Adaptive Learning Engine, alien avatars and space bitz Engaging the most reluctant of learners and challenging the gifted and talented
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herston is excited to announce the launch of the all new Planet Sherston, with alien avatars and space bitz to keep children coming back for more. Thousands of quality resources keep children learning with its innovative and powerful teacher tool, Adaptive Learning Engine. Sherston Software has brought together the very best in educational resources with cutting edge learning technologies to create Planet Sherston – rivalling the best virtual worlds for children as well as providing schools with great resources, using technology to really make a difference to teachers.
Motivate learning with space bitz Forget online games and appealing but non-educational websites that our children love outside of school, because Planet Sherston raises the bar in educational online worlds to create an environment that children genuinely want to visit again and again. How does it work? Each pupil has their own avatar alien with its own ‘home’ in the Planet Sherston world. All successful educational activity is then rewarded with ‘space bitz’ which can be spent at the ‘space bazaar’ – where items such as wallpaper, furniture, food etc. can be purchased. The more activities completed by the pupil, the more ‘space bitz’ they earn to spend on their personalised avatar.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to improve our children’s learning opportunity Planet Sherston includes the unique “Adaptive Learning Engine” which not only
assigns sets of activities to individual pupils based on their own performance, but continually collects and analyses performance information and utilises its artificial intelligence to decide how best to dynamically serve each pupil’s pathway of learning – supporting low-ability pupils to progress as well as challenging the gifted and talented.
The intelligent engine sits alongside powerful teacher tools and real-time reporting and is an additional and inclusive feature that helps support teachers and pupils at all levels.
“Planet Sherston is… already having a positive impact on teaching and learning within a month of introduction. Sherston are very helpful with setting up pupil and staff accounts, they do all the hard work for you! Teachers are able to set individual tasks for children, which is fantastic for
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personalised learning allowing children to work towards their individual targets, furthermore impacting upon raising standards in school. As a school which also uses Assertive Mentoring to target gaps in children’s learning, Planet Sherston is a perfect partner to help children fill in these gaps both in class and at home.” Harrowgate Hill Primary, Darlington Sherston believes in facilitating personalised learning 24/7, supporting teachers to deliver and track personal learning journeys and also empowering children to take charge of their own learning. Planet Sherston comes with a 12- month money-back guarantee*. Underpinning all of this technology is a belief in improving performance and raising attainment of children.
uwww.planetsherston.com March 2012
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