Gone are the days when kids ran out into the neighborhood cul-de-sac to kick around a ball and play hopscotch on the lawn. It’s 2024 — we’re living among the iPad generation.
Most American children spend between five to seven hours a day staring at a screen, according to the National Library of Medicine. In response, parents are frantically looking for ways to keep their kids engaged and learning — but with the help of their children’s chosen platform — modern technology.
Cristobal Viedma was one of the first pioneers in the world of children’s learning apps, deciding to build his own platform after discovering that the app market desperately lacked specialized early childhood learning tools. Viedma launched LingoKids in 2015, based on the “playlearning” approach — a concept that education should be enjoyable for children, and help them learn soft skills, such as creativity, compassion, and innovation in addition to more academic curriculum.
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LingoKids partnered with Oxford University Press to develop this unique “playlearning” content for children between two and eight. Parents can choose between over 600 learning objectives and 1,200 activities that foster new skills; games, songs, puzzles, and virtual board games that teach new words, colors, numbers, animals, and everyday language while also harnessing critical thinking and problem-solving, on top of core educational subjects like addition, subtraction, vocabulary, even sequencing and basic coding.
The premise of LingoKids is that these games are so fun for kids to play, that they can barely tell they’re also serving educational purposes. It’s a win for parents and for kids.
Lingokids App
Viedma and his team wanted to create an environment that protects children’s privacy. Online safety is of paramount importance to parents. A 2023 University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll found that 67% of parents are concerned about the overuse of devices and screen time.
LingoKids safeguards data so parents don’t have to worry that their children’s personal information could become public. Young minds are also especially vulnerable to advertising, which is commonly found on children’s apps. Lingokids, however, is entirely add-free and 100% kid-safe, meaning that children can use the platform independently — always under the supervision of the Lingokids fun characters that guide their adventures.
Since its conception, the app has expanded to nearly every corner of the world. The software is available in English, as well as other languages including Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian.
The learning platform has even received backing from UNICEF, earning two badges for being cognitive-friendly and mobility-friendly, according to users with vision, mobility, or cognitive challenges who reviewed and scored the app based on its usability.
Every day, more parents are turning to LingoKids, which now has over 78 million users and was named one of the world’s top EdTech companies for 2024 by TIME Magazine. Parents are seeing this app used in the classroom, by home school groups, and early learning centers. It’s even available on Amazon, with thousands of parents leaving glowing reviews.
Many agree that the app is especially useful during travel, or when they aren’t available to provide direct attention to their children. “Both kids found the games and the songs really enjoyable. Great app for you to have on a long journey. One subscription covers the whole family too so decent value,” one reviewer wrote.
Others have pointed out that the price point is also more accessible than some competing learning apps on the market. “I think it’s great value for the price. It’s an investment in my child’s future that’s already paying off!”
For a limited time only, Lingokids is offering a deal of 60% off the software just in time for summer. The app is available for $89.99 for a yearly subscription or $13.49 for a month-by-month plan.
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