Nanaba can remotely lock young people’s favorite apps until they have done their homework.
Spending less time on the Internet and more studying is the wish of all parents for their children. Note that this is now possible thanks to an application created by Nanaba, a start-up from Nice, which offers to temporarily block the most popular social networks such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok or Snapchat to encourage children to study, reports an article. of Parisian. The principle is simple: if your child or teenager wants to use their laptop or tablet to play, watch videos and surf social networks, they will first have to answer questions related to their school program.
The application thus assesses several subjects such as science, French, English and general culture, thanks to quick tests of less than a minute and quizzes of fifteen questions written by teachers of the National Education. The exercises go from the CP level to the third and for the most difficult, the algorithm uses the Leitner method, “a technique of learning by spaced repetition”, indicates the daily. Obviously, it is the parents who choose the frequency of the quizzes and therefore the blockages.
11-17 year olds spend more than 2 hours a day on the Internet
“At first, they are resistant, but we see that after a few weeks, many want to spontaneously take the quizzes because they see progress at school or college,” says Anne-Laure Monier, co-founder of the start-up. up. Win-win. Especially since, in normal times, 11-17 year olds spend an average of 2 hours 40 minutes per day on social networks and video games, can we read on the site of the school support application. Since its release this summer, no less than 10,000 families have already downloaded Nanaba, available on Apple, Android and Huawei smartphones, in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg.