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Parent reviews for HOMER Learn & Grow
daart Adult
December 8, 2021
age 3+
My kid loves this app
Boy, my kid really loves this app. It somehow hits the right spot for him. Whenever he gets home from daycare, it's often "Homer! Homer!" I like how it's very educational and how it's so much better than other distractions like TV (and he prefers this over them). He is getting quite good at the shapes game where you match what shapes are related to what the narrator is saying. There is also little drawing-practice/writing-practice style games, memory games, simple math-related games, sing-a-longs, and other things I haven't discovered yet. My kid rather loves all the sing-a-longs. Very engaging educational app!
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Easy to play/use
adridder Adult
April 19, 2021
age 2+
Overcharged us, App Lost Progress and Hassle to Cancel
Their site offer was one price, then they billed me nearly double. After working with their support they gave me a partial refund instead of canceling. Then when we got in the app, my kid gave up because his progress was lost over and over. Then we didn't use it for 11.5 months but they finally contacted us to let us know that we'll be charged again for renewal - nice to know they care about their customers. So I go to the site to try and log in. It says it sent me an email & try again. Never receiving an email - thus I can't even cancel. Now back on with support. At what point should I get paid for QA testing their app experience?
Denisewow Adult
March 7, 2021
age 2+
ILLEGITIMATE CHARGES AFTER YOU CANCEL
Don't use this app canceled February 5th charged today March 7th for a monthly subscription i canceled!!! Charging people for something they canceled should be illegal in a pandemic i want my 9.99 stolen FROM MY CHECKING ILLEGALLY
Christina M. Adult
March 2, 2021
age 2+
Awesome!
Wishbsome concepts in certain games had some more reiteration, but overall, it's awesome! Love the encouragement and diversity in engagement this app offers to kids.
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Easy to play/use
Katie.deborde Adult
February 28, 2021
age 2+
Great educational app
I was quite surprised by how much my 7yo son enjoyed this app. When I initially looked at it, I seems to be made for children 7 and younger and I wasn't sure it would keep my kid's attention, but he was really into the characters and songs. The content of the app is great at covering not only basics of numbers, letters, colors, etc. But even more complex concepts. I'm very happy with it.
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Easy to play/use
stagebeast Adult
February 28, 2021
age 3+
Great fun!
My son (7) took to the app quickly. He loved the music and characters and even felt challenged. It was nice to have a learning app filled with games that reinforce what he's learning in school.
I highly recommend this app!
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Easy to play/use
paulabw Adult
February 19, 2021
age 3+
Great app for little kids
I recommend this app- we have three kids 8 (2nd grade), 6 (kinder), and 4 (part time preschool). All of them loved it. Their favorite part and the part I thought was most unique to this app is the "record your voice" feature. This is offered in the phonics sections. But because of its uniqueness and utility, I do wish when the child records his/her voice the app would provide feedback if the child's pronunciation was wrong. The animation is great- the kids and I loved all the animal characters and their bright colors, cute voices, facial expressions, etc. I think this definitely helped capture their interests. I thought it was cute that they were the kids' cheerleaders and was almost as if they were playing with these characters. I also really appreciate that they kids can play and navigate the site without handholding from me.
I usually use these apps when I am trying to get dinner cooked or need time without a lot of "mom I need your help." I like that the characters explain the instructions and walk you through it whereas other similar apps have written out instructions or are too confusing for the little ones. So to know my 4-year old can be entertained and still learning without my oversight is great. I will continue continue to use this for my kids, especially my 6 and 4 year olds. With that said, I did find it a little underwhelming for my 8 year old. So I recommend either providing a recommended age limit or providing more advanced material. I found that even though I set up 3-separate profiles with their ages and interests, the activities in each profile were the same. My only real criticism is in regards to the initial set up. When you create an account you are asked the initial questions only for one child. And then later you have to navigate the site to create additional users or add children.
It's obviously not the end of the world but I did not find the location to add children to be intuitive and it did take me a while to the point where my frustration was about to just call it quits. But once I found it, all was good. I recommend these steps be brought up to the initial "create an account" step. As I mentioned above, I plan to keep using this app! Thank you!
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cnaron26 Adult
January 18, 2021
age 3+
Super Cute
I love this app! My kids want to listen to the stories and play the games all the time. Especially the superhero one.
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Easy to play/use
Katie N. Adult
December 16, 2020
age 2+
Fun to do together or independently
My son loves the read-to-me stories and is starting to play more of the math games.
The little characters on those games are super cute and keep him engaged.
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Easy to play/use
Goldie55 Adult
December 10, 2020
age 3+
Guilt-free Screen Time
Love this app! Fun AND educational app for kids.
HOMER Learn & Grow Review for Teachers
HOMER Learn & Grow can be an excellent self-guided phonics experience for kids with a wide range of prereading and early reading skill levels. For students needing practice in phonics, turn to the Reading section, which offers a scaffolded lesson path that includes interactive practice and voice recordings. To encourage reading, check out Stories, which offers beautifully illustrated stories from numerous genres. The read-aloud stories would work great individually or for a large group, since topics cover a wide spectrum from history to science. And since kids follow an individualized path, differentiation is essentially baked right in.
Enrichment activities continue with the Math, Games, Songs, and Practice sections that encompass activities that introduce early math topics and develop memory, matching, and sequencing skills. Each section asks kids to interact with speaking, drawing, or making selections, which would be possible to build out to off-screen activities.
HOMER Learn & Grow is an early learning app for kids age 2 to 8 that focuses on literacy with drawing, voice recording, stories, and songs, along with more traditional phonics lessons. A colorful main screen presents all of the options kids can explore: Math, Stories, Games, Reading, Songs, Creativity, and Practice. Clear verbal instructions guide kids in all areas. In Reading, kids follow a personalized, adaptive learning path as they tap and listen to a lesson, play activities, and review before moving on to the next lesson. In Math and Games, kids choose from a large menu of activities that touch on numbers, short-term memory, puzzles, and logic.
Stories and Songs have books, nursery rhymes, and song videos in a variety of genres and combine original content with well-known classics. And kids can draw or use stickers to create a variety of themed scenes in the Creativity section. Teachers may be able to create a free educator account on the developer's website.
Note that HOMER Learn & Grow is a redesigned version of what used to be called HOMER Reading: Learn to Read. At the time of this review, this updated app was available for iOS only; the developer claims that an Android update is coming soon.
HOMER Learn & Grow is an outstanding way to get students excited about reading. The systematic phonics lessons can help kids learn letter sounds, letter (capital and lowercase) and word recognition, critical thinking while reading, and reading comprehension. By reading or listening to the stories, kids can also learn about animals, historic figures, world cultures, music, and other topics relevant to their lives. Interesting content about frogs, world music, fiction, poetry, and songs engages students while building reading fluency.
As kids make voice recordings and draw pictures, they are learning digital creation skills while applying their knowledge. And a study proclaims its efficacy.
The app includes plenty of positive feedback ("Hooray and happy day!" and "Wiggly ears cheers!"), but it can feel a bit over-the-top after a while. Though the inclusion of SEL content is especially great to have, the non-literacy-related content feels weak compared to the reading program. It's much less thorough and often feels simply like an add-on. On the other hand, the upside is that even kids who aren't quite ready to read can easily find something to do. In fact, with so much content, kids will have solid content to read, listen to, and explore for months.
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Engagement
A colorful menu presents lots of quality lessons, books, songs, and interactive games.
Content touches on a variety of high-interest topics sure to capture kids' interest.
Pedagogy
Personalized phonics lessons and rich stories strategically guide students through beginning reading activities. Kids are also free to choose puzzles, games, songs, and more to practice other early learning skills.
Support
There are clear verbal instructions but little help when kids struggle to respond correctly, and no language other than English.
Additional parent/teacher support is available on the developer's website.
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Open education - Homer through the eyes of a philologist
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Homer is a key figure in the history of culture, and the Iliad and the Odyssey are the main texts of antiquity, telling about the epic events of those centuries.
The study of Russian translations of Homer will allow you to learn a lot about ancient literature, folklore and mythology. During the training, students will get acquainted with important problems of literary theory, with the structure of verse, as well as with the theory and practice of translation.
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About
Try to ask yourself a mental question: how do I imagine Homer? If your imagination has reproduced the image of a wise blind man, an aged singer-storyteller, we are ready to tell you why everything is not so simple.
The author of the key texts of antiquity, the Iliad and the Odyssey, is not perceived by all experts in the same way. Perhaps there was no Homer at all? Together with associate professors of the HSE School of Linguistics Boris Valeryevich Orekhov and Vladimir Vladimirovich Fayer, students will be able to immerse themselves in the field of Homeric studies online and learn about the main problems and theories in this area.
The Homeric question began to interest classical philologists as early as the end of the 18th century, when F.-A. Wolf. At the same time, on the material of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they actively began to study the culture of the past, which led to the development of new methods of history, cultural studies, comparative studies, philology and textual criticism. On the example of the Homeric case, students will get acquainted with various philological methodologies, problems of translation studies, as well as the peculiarities of Homer's reception. We will turn not only to texts, but also to cinema.
The authors of the online course set themselves the task of acquainting listeners with the current state of Homeric studies, as well as tracing the history of the development of the Homeric question based on the cultural and literary context. After completing the training, course participants will receive basic knowledge of Homeric works, learn about new approaches to the analysis of classical texts, and will also be able to more thoughtfully analyze and comment on poetic texts.
Before taking the online course, we highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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The course consists of short video lectures lasting from 8 to 15 minutes with invaluable questions and practical exercises. Once a week, students will be offered a 15-question, graded test or essay in a peer-review format. The final exam is a test.
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Ability to read scientific literature on philology, ability to use dictionaries and encyclopedias (including to determine the meaning of obsolete words).
Course program
Topic 1. Context: historical, cultural, historical and literary
Topic 2. Homeric question. oral theory. Homer and formulas
Topic 3. Homeric poems and typology of the heroic epic
Topic 4. Structure and composition of poems. Homeric comparisons
Topic 5. Hexameter: metrics of Homer's poems, their translations and imitations
Topic 6. Homeric mythology and its foundations
Theme 7. Homeric textology. The reception of Homer in antiquity
Topic 8. Homer in the culture of subsequent eras. Russian Homer
Topic 9. Homer through the eyes of modern scientists
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45.00.00 Linguistics and Literary Studies
03/45/01 Philology
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Orekhov Boris Valerievich
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor
Position: Associate Professor, School of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
Fayer Vladimir Vladimirovich
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor
Position: Associate Professor, School of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
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Give kids the best start with the new HOMER Learn & Grow Personalized Early Learning Program »Let's talk about video games
HOMER goes beyond the proven reading learning app to offer a comprehensive early learning program for children ages 2 to 8.
NEW YORK - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Today, HOMER, the premier early childhood education program, unveiled its completely redesigned comprehensive learning platform, HOMER Learn & Grow. Building on the success of HOMER Reading, the only app proven to increase early reading scores by 74% in just 15 minutes a day, HOMER Learn & Grow takes kids on a personalized learning journey that grows with them as they they increase their confidence in vital subjects.
areas including reading, math, social-emotional, creative and thinking skills.
"This year has been extremely challenging for parents as they have been offered the role of teaching and fighting how to ensure their children do not miss out on critical developmental skills. Nearly 60% of parents surveyed said they were equally intimidated and motivated to know that the early years matter the most, while also recognizing that it is difficult to determine what is effective at sea, mainly educational opportunities,” said Stephanie Dua, co-founder and president of HOMER. “HOMER aims to partially alleviate this stress, supporting families with a comprehensive program designed by experts, targeting both mainstream schools and life skills.
HOMER Essential Early Learning Program offers families a unique combination of school efficiency and fun activities to give children the best start on their educational journey. a variety of subjects, including reading, math, social-emotional learning, creativity and thinking skills.
HOMER Learn & Grow replaces the popular HOMER Reading and HOMER Stories apps with a completely redesigned curriculum with expanded curriculum and new content. Existing HOMER members will benefit from new kid-friendly navigation for self-play and will be able to pick up a child's reading from where they left off.
The HOMER Method
At the heart of HOMER Learn & Grow is the HOMER Method, a patented, research-backed, child-tested, expertly developed system that gives your child the best start on their learning journey by helping them develop important skills for both school, as well as for life.
HOMER is the only solution in the industry that delivers digital, physical and personal learning, allowing kids to choose how they learn. The new HOMER Learn & Grow app represents the first digital pillar of HOMER's comprehensive early learning program, which aims to support learning using whatever environment is most appropriate. In the coming months, HOMER, along with its partners, will introduce additional programs to support physical play and real-time learning (both virtual and face-to-face).
Availability and Pricing
HOMER Learn & Grow is now available on the Apple App Store and coming soon to the Google Play Store. Membership is for the whole family with the ability to set up up to four profiles. Families can try the app for free for the first 30 days and then upgrade to a monthly membership for $9.99 or an annual membership for $59.99. Register at https://learnwithhomer.com/
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HOMER is an essential early learning program for young children. HOMER gives children the best start on their educational journey by gaining self-confidence and developing skills that prepare them for school and life.
