Smilegate Future Lab said on the 22nd that it released the children's learning app "Aha Oho" on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
"Aha Oho" is an "experience-centered platform" where learners start from their own interests, make things themselves, fail, and broaden their learning. It features archiving of creative activities, future-oriented "artificial intelligence (AI) personalized feedback," and a "retrospective and reward system" for reflecting on one's creations.
A Smilegate Future Lab official said, "It is designed so that children express their thoughts on their own, interact with friends, and continue learning," and noted that it is the result of expanding to digital the creative-environment philosophy that Future Lab has proven in offline spaces over the past 10 years.
Based on Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Professor Mitchel Resnick's "creative learning spiral" theory, it digitally implements a creative loop model that continues through exploration-creation-sharing-feedback-retrospective-try again. It also supports an educators-only "web platform" that can be used in educational settings such as schools. Educators can observe children's creative journeys and retrospective data to design and support creative learning in a detailed way.
Future Lab is conducting joint research with a research team led by Professor Shin Jong-ho at Seoul National University to verify the effects of Aha Oho on children's creative learning. Next month, it plans to launch "ACRC," a children's supporters group made up of actual users, to fully uncover innovative cases in real educational settings.