empowering teachers, engaging students, enhancing learning
MISSION: To become the world’s online platform for all things education.
introducing zondle
• zondle is a free web and mobile platform that empowers
teachers to engage students and enhance learning.
• zondle empowers teachers:
enabling them to create and share educational content to
meet the specific learning needs of individual students.
• zondle engages students:
motivating them and giving them ownership of their
learning, through their choice of web and mobile games.
• zondle enhances learning:
consolidating classroom work, preparing for high-stakes
tests, all without any marking.
zondle empowers teachers
Teachers can (for example):
• Create questions (any language, any subject, any level) or
mash together any of the 1.4 million questions created by
other users, to meet individual or group needs;
• teach using our unique whole-class teaching game;
• set questions for students to play in games or as
summative assessment (no marking!);
• monitor progress (in the zondle grade book);
• connect with other teachers worldwide.
monitoring progress
monitoring progress
zondle engages students
Students can (for example):
• play questions set by their teacher in any of 60+ games,
online or mobile;
• create, play and practice their own questions;
• monitor their progress;
• collect points and badges;
• compete on leaderboards;
• create their own reward games.
web and mobile games
(some examples)
zondle enhances learning
zondle:
• is grounded in education, psychology and neuroscience
research (from the universities of Oxford and Bristol);
• creates heightened moments of engagement (increased
synaptic dopamine), which teachers can exploit for
learning;
• encourages students to engage with the learning content,
to encode into long-term memory and automatize;
• enables students to consolidate classroom learning, or
prepare for high-stakes testing.
games-based teaching
games-based teaching
zondle topics
• Supports any subject, any level and any language.
• More than 1.4 million questions have been created on
zondle (by teachers and students).
• Questions are in a wide range of formats (including,
multiple choice, cloze procedure, label the picture...)
• Represents at least 10,000 hours of work freely given by
teachers.
• Started to add some partner- and teacher-created
premium content.
creating zondle topics
creating zondle topics
zondle games
• More than 60 short immersive or reward learning games
(web and mobile: Apple, Android, Kindle Fire).
• Designed to be quick to play (so that they can be
integrated in typical time‐pressured classrooms).
• Designed to be fun and engaging (to encourage students
to engage with the educational content repeatedly, until
they achieve automaticity).
• Also includes a whole-class teaching game (zondle Team
Play), grounded in neuroscience research.
zondle games
zondle games
using zondle topics and games
• Teachers create, choose, customise or mash together
questions to meet specific learning needs.
• Teachers set the questions to their students
(to consolidate learning, for formative or summative
assessment, or to prepare for high-stakes tests).
• Students play and practise the questions in any of
zondle’s games (on the web or a mobile device).
• Teachers monitor student progress in the zondle
gradebook (no marking!)
using zondle topics and games
Database of
educational content
zondle
interpreter
8,000,000+ topic and game combinations
Database of
casual games
using zondle topics and games
additional functionality
• Zollars (zondle Dollars to reward student performance:
23 billion Zollars have been awarded).
• zondle Teacher Community (teachers can now create
their own profiles to help them find other teachers:
1,300 teachers have created profiles).
• zondle Class View (a locked-down interface for use by
younger children).
• Others include: animated reward game development
tool, SDK (software development kit), Raspberry Pi kit...
zondle connect
possible zondle lesson plan
WHERE
Classroom
Computer room
Computer room
WHAT
TIME
Discussion: What makes a good quality revision/review
question?
5
Using a previous topic studied in class (teacher’s choice!),
each student creates one good quality question.
5
Students feedback to class.
5
Using the same class topic, each student creates a total of
five good quality questions.
15
Students log onto zondle, create a zondle topic and enter
their five questions.
20
Students play their zondle topic in any zondle game.
5
Students play a friend’s topic in any zondle game, and give
votes for the topics.
5
Students create a zondle game.
20
Students play their topic in their zondle game.
5
Students play their topic in their friends’ zondle games, and
give votes for the games.
5
testimonials
“I can’t praise you highly enough for your efforts with zondle, it reaches students that
I teach EVERY day.” Mr Branchflower (Australia)
“zondle has changed the way I look at teaching. An amazing tool and a vision of
education that totally resonates with how I feel.” Mr Giotto (USA)
“OMG I only recently found zondle and all I can say is WOW!! I teach HS biology to at
risk students. Using zondle has added that extra spark they needed to prepare for our
state test in 2 weeks. Some of my kids have even come during my planning period to
play more games so they can be the zondle dollar leader in their class. Unbelieveable.
I now dream in zondle!!!” Mrs Goshert (USA)
“Thank you so much for your help and dedication to the current (and future!)
students and teachers using your wonderful zondle program! You and your team are
pioneers of a program that is bringing lots of fun in learning to all ages. :) A small
team making a big difference!” Ms Tadsen (USA)
“I am in awe of you and the platform you have created. I am so amazed: I feel it's a
dream. Pinch me. Wonderful a teacher’s dream :)” Orlanda Cline (USA)
empowering teachers
engaging students
enhancing learning
www.zondle.com