The Exploration of Learning Software for Children
--- The Design of Multiplication Software
Abstract
With the rising development of edutainment, an increasing number of people are concerned about the entertainment education nowadays. It is a worthy of study matter how to keep the balance between education and entertainment and to integrate the inherence of games into education so as to serve it more effectively. During the early period of learning, children’s interest takes up a majority of parts, so it is not necessarily effective to indoctrinate knowledge to children. On the contrary, we should conform to the nature of them while teaching to which the Spoon-feeding method is inferior. Moreover, in some learning areas, children can use some educational software to study more effectively.
The software for children to learn Multiplication designed in the thesis makes use of the advanced programming language –Visual Basic to write programs, which is visual, object-oriented and also it applies the structure of event-driven approach to program. In addition, it integrates funny pictures and music to stimulate and even keep the children’s interest for learning. In this way, the final goal would be arrived – to achieve better learning performance.
