The Geniora and Blabloo smartphones are unlike any other similar performing apps, as unlike these they are not strictly speaking an app, rather we build the software into the hardware. So, while apps are easy to download, they are also easy to remove or children can at least find ways around them. Our offering cannot…
Before the pandemic the education sector was one suffering from underfunding, over- stretched teachers and in many cases, one criticised as not relevant to the modern world and the work environment in the 21st Century. Covid-19 is forcing a reflection on the sector (and many of its current challenges) as well as a change in…
Managing a child´s first smartphone should not have to involve snatching it from their grasp, when the parent wants them to stop using a game or accessing inappropriate content. Doing this multiple times can cause some psychological issues. There is an easier way: Blabloo and Geniora smartphones. With the Blabloo and Geniora smartphones, once this…
According to the United Nations, and an article published in May 2020, with 1.5 billion children currently out of school, there is a “desperate need for digital partnership such as the one ITU (International Telecommunications Union) is currently undertaking with Children’s Fund UNICEF, known as the GIGA initiative, to ensure that schooling everywhere can be…
The reason a parent buys their child a mobile phone is changing, especially amid the pandemic. In the US in a survey in 2019, 40% of parents “admitted to allowing their kids to use cell phones to keep them entertained / give themselves a break!”. While slightly selfish for this minority, a majority of them,…
The loss of six months worth of education due to the Coronavirus has inevitably taken its toll on students, teachers, parents and other actors in this drama. In the UK, by no means the worst hit country, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper “4 in 10 pupils have not been in regular contact with their…
Remote education has presented many challenges for parents and schools the world over. Studies show that screen time can have both positive and adverse impacts on children, and this shift to online education has only increased a child’s time with their devices. In fact, according to a Unicef report there is a “Goldilocks Hypothesis” for…
Schools having been forced into delivering remote education has not been an easy lesson. The experience has been a mixed one, with some schools doing well and others not so well. Needed now is a period of reflection to take stock and prepare for what will no doubt follow, according to most forecasts, with a…
Covid-19 has been with us now for many months and we have done our part, remaining at home, and using our home as a virtual office for some members of the family, and a virtual school for others. As we slowly ease out of the lockdown our concern as parents about where our children are…
The Blabloo and Geniora smartphones are a kid´s first smartphone, developed by Escudo Web for the Global and South East Asian markets respectively. Both smartphones have the same functionality but the Geniora version also has pre-loaded subscriptioned educational content which can make “Education on the Go” a reality. A UNESCO Report claimed that mobile phones…