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04/09/2013
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Application tries to take the classroom experience of students' lives.
There are 180 students and 35 000 in Rio Amazonas, says the company.
While touchscreens and apps seem to gain teacher slates and chalk covered the tug of war for the attention of students in the classroom, a company Rio assumed that tablets and smartphones are part of the school supplies and turned into business creation content for these devices.
Since the beginning of the year, 180 students are already studying with applications EvoBooks in Rio de Janeiro. In Amazonas, the resource is used by teachers in lessons distance in a pilot project that reaches over 35 thousand students.
According Felipe Rezende, cofounder and executive director of EvoBooks, a kind of "digital studio and publisher," the core business was born as a form of education that used in the classroom experience of students' lives, permeated by technology, to facilitate learning. "It's good to have interactivity, but you can not forget that the objective is to pass a resume."
Application of EvoBooks displays didactic content in 3D and in high resolution to bring students' experiences with games in the classroom (Reuters / EvoBooks)
Therefore, the programs have the aesthetics of games, but the content of teaching subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History and Geography. Were developed in 3D and HD image quality to meet the demand for those accustomed to ultra-realistic games and movies, says Rezende (See video).
Unlike seriousness as marketing textbooks, the app can be downloaded like any other stores of Apple, Google and Microsoft devices directly into the students.
With 21 professionals, the company's team follows the multidisciplinary: they sit at the same table teachers, all with doctoral or master's degree, along with experts in technology and content to ally bits and bytes.
No handout
The purpose of the application is to replace not only handouts and textbooks, but also the students' notebooks. This is because, through the application, you can take notes and share them with other users.
The applications also benefit teachers, who can draw lessons from the creative tools the app and can end the double chalk and blackboard.
"Not just for the lazy student," Brinza Rezende. "Teachers can also save notes on a blackboard or redeem the notes of an old lesson," says Felipe Rezende, cofounder and executive director of EvoBooks.
Besides trying to bring the classroom into the era of information technology, the EvoBooks also want to surf on the wave of new shares from the Ministry of Education.
The folder transferred $ 180 million to states to distribute 600,000 tablets for teachers and, at the last National Textbook showed interest that will buy digital books in 2015.
For now, the use is restricted to projects that innovate in the way of teaching as the Experimental Gymnasium of New Educational Technologies (People) school model city of Rio
In the institution, located in Rocinha, students, and have contact with other electronics like tablets and hybrid devices between laptops and digital whiteboards, are not divided into series, but curricular matrices.
However, EvoBooks says Rezende, negotiates bring the application to institutions less heterodox. For the second half of this year, is negotiating the deployment of more than ten private schools and two public networks, one city, another state.
Gustavo Rahmilevitz, Felipe Rezende, and William Carlos Grieco Otranto, partners EvoBooks, digital publisher that develops interactive content (Reuters / EvoBooks)
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