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Story Wars AB & Squirrel Learning Merge to Enhance the Digital Learning Experience

Wolverhampton (Sept. 7, 2020) - COVID-19 has changed the way we communicate across the globe. One of the main areas to feel this shift is in education. Unlike any other school year before, educators have to re-evaluate the way they approach teaching. Today, in an effort to provide next level training and development, Squirrel Learning, the school improvement and digital learning service, and Story Wars, the educational creative writing platform, have merged to help schools, teachers and parents use digital educational technology to enhance the online learning experience.

Through this partnership, Story Wars and Squirrel Learning will provide the companies with access to education professionals with a district sales capability. Both companies believe that merging Squirrel Learning’s professional development services and classroom expertise with Story Wars’ products for engaging young writers, will create new opportunities.

The companies will be merged under the name Squirrel Learning.

“Story Wars and Squirrel Learning are a perfect mix,” said Story Wars AB owner, Thomas Andersson. “We have a wide range of applications and consultants who can help schools, teachers, and parents to use digital solutions in the best way.”

Story Wars and Squirrel Learning will now be working closely together on the development of new resources, including the development of an all-age approach to the teaching of writing skills. The new Squirrel Learning suite of GoApps, including GoRead and GoWrite, will be aligned with the existing Story Wars products to ensure that writing skills are built on from Early Years to secondary and young adult writers.

“Our goal is to provide young people with access to learning opportunities no matter where they are,” said Gavin Hawkins, co-founder and director, Squirrel Learning. “With this exciting new merger, we will be using the power and appeal of Story Wars to connect classrooms and work with educators to achieve measurable gains for students.”

Through Squirrel Learning products like GoWrite, learners of all ages can become published writers. Each project undertaken within GoWrite and Story Wars will have a publishing component to ensure that all writers have access to their work in a physical hard-copy book as well as a digital alternative.

Squirrel Learning provides education technology curriculum and services to schools and district councils throughout the United Kingdom as well as educational consulting services around the cross-curricular use of technology, outdoor activities, resilience building, and citizenship programmes.

The recently developed GoRead, a digital reading record for use within school and at home, is as a direct result of the challenges posed by Covid-19, where there is a requirement to lessen the need to pass books and materials between home and school. Through GoRead, all students within a school will have their own account, making it easy to keep a continuous record of all their reading books, with teacher comments, help files, videos and parental support materials.

“This coming academic year poses a unique set of challenges for schools, teachers, students and parents,” says Andersson. “Our joint aim is to offer support in the form of digital interventions, professional development opportunities, exciting and imaginative content and products and supportive approaches to parental engagement to ensure that all young people have the best chance to succeed whether working at home, school or through a hybrid model of online learning.”

The merger increases our capacity to develop future products within the GoApps suite, such as mathematical problem solving, citizen science, personal development and wellbeing.

About Squirrel Learning

Squirrel Learning believes that all young people deserve access to a balanced curriculum of opportunity, with support and challenge. They work to support schools and educators to ensure that young people have access to inspirational, engaging and rewarding digital and non-digital activities, with supportive and impactful interventions. Their work with schools focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people by ensuring a skilled and confident workforce, innovative and creative uses of technology supported by imaginative and resourceful approaches to the curriculum. Learn more about Squirrel Learning and all of their offerings atwww.squirrellearning.co.uk or our GoApps atGoRead andGoWrite

About Story Wars AB

Story Wars AB is a Swedish company that was established in 2015. Story Wars AB delivers platforms for creative writing to schools, teachers, libraries, and parents.

Story Wars AB includes the platformswww.storywars.net,www.storyduel.com,www.storywarskids.com andStoryWars Talk

The platforms today have approximately 80,000 registered users worldwide. Story Wars AB is also a member of the Swedish Edtech Industry.

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Topics

  • Literature

Categories

  • english
  • storytelling
  • language
  • writing
  • education
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • library
  • classroom
  • edtech
  • writinggroups
  • writingclub

Story Wars is a platform where writers from all over with amazing ideas come to express their ideas. Different users can write a chapter to a story that they like and want to contribute to. The twist is that for your chapter to be in the official story, it has to be voted in. By going up against different authors, you have to try. Because of that, you slowly start to become better in both language and writing.

Story Wars AB includes the platforms www.storywars.net, www.storyduel.com, www.storywarskids.com and the online meeting tool www.storywarstalk.com.

Contacts

Thomas Andersson

Press contact Director

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