Review of Curious World and Starfall
Today, civilization is experiencing the fourth stage of the information revolution. As known, the three previous stages include the invention of writing, the invention of printing in the 15th century and the invention of telegraph, telephone, radio and television in the 20th century. The current fourth phase is based on digital technology and the Internet. Unfortunately, like any revolution, it is accompanied by problems. In particular, an unprecedented amount of rapidly updated scientific information has become a problem for the traditional education system. As a result, learning optimization has become an urgent need. E-learning has become one of the main tools for solving this problem. Today, online learning partially solves it, allowing teachers and parents to more flexibly regulate the educational process. Unfortunately, quarantine due to the epidemic further exacerbated the problem by limiting traditional school education. But perhaps this aspect will become an additional incentive for even more rapid development of e-learning. Today, the market is saturated with companies providing quality educational services for children. Of course, this segment has leaders. Today, list includes ABCmouse, Reading Eggs, Starfall, Curious World, BrainPOP, FunBrain, Highlights Kids, National Geographic Kids, Coolmath, PBS Kids. But the complete list is much wider. Of course, all of them can use traditional PCs, tablets or smartphones with a sufficiently large screen. Read the full article









