Feed Your Elephant Capitals
Learn World Capital Cities
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2.26for iPhone, iPad and more
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Feed Your Elephant
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135.9 MB
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Oct 23, 2017
Update Date
Education
Category
4+
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About Feed Your Elephant Capitals
Want to know your Prague from your Praia? - Feed Your Elephant Capitals teaches you world capital cities.
We learn in chunks, when we should be s p a c i n g. Feed Your Elephant is a series of learning apps that space learning out. It uses active learning (it asks you questions), and has a heuristic feedback algorithm (it learns from your answers), so it presents the questions you are unfamiliar with more often, and less so the ones you have mastered. This gives it a thing called 'desirable difficulty' and that is why it works.
The science is unequivocal:
"More than 100 years of distributed practice research have demonstrated that learning is powerfully affected by the temporal distribution of study time."
- 2006 Cepeda, Pashler, Vul and Wixted
"Although spacing effects are very robust and have important implications for memory and education, people often underestimate the benefits of spaced repetition when learning”
- 2012 - Logan, Castel, Haber & Viehman
And your memory is practically infinite:
"New Estimate Boosts the Human Brain's Memory Capacity 10-Fold to around a quadrillion bytes"
- Scientific American
"The Human Brain's Memory Could Store the Entire Internet"
- Live Science
2016 Guardian Article on Spacing:
"Why does it work? By taking advantage of the way our brain has evolved...
It forces learning to be effortful, and like muscles, the brain responds to that stimulus by strengthening the connections between nerve cells. By spacing the intervals out, you’re further exercising these connections each time. It produces long-term, durable retention of knowledge, and in my experience, once people start using it, they swear by it...
Spaced repetition is simple, but highly effective.”
And it's free! So download it and begin Feeding Your Elephant.
We learn in chunks, when we should be s p a c i n g. Feed Your Elephant is a series of learning apps that space learning out. It uses active learning (it asks you questions), and has a heuristic feedback algorithm (it learns from your answers), so it presents the questions you are unfamiliar with more often, and less so the ones you have mastered. This gives it a thing called 'desirable difficulty' and that is why it works.
The science is unequivocal:
"More than 100 years of distributed practice research have demonstrated that learning is powerfully affected by the temporal distribution of study time."
- 2006 Cepeda, Pashler, Vul and Wixted
"Although spacing effects are very robust and have important implications for memory and education, people often underestimate the benefits of spaced repetition when learning”
- 2012 - Logan, Castel, Haber & Viehman
And your memory is practically infinite:
"New Estimate Boosts the Human Brain's Memory Capacity 10-Fold to around a quadrillion bytes"
- Scientific American
"The Human Brain's Memory Could Store the Entire Internet"
- Live Science
2016 Guardian Article on Spacing:
"Why does it work? By taking advantage of the way our brain has evolved...
It forces learning to be effortful, and like muscles, the brain responds to that stimulus by strengthening the connections between nerve cells. By spacing the intervals out, you’re further exercising these connections each time. It produces long-term, durable retention of knowledge, and in my experience, once people start using it, they swear by it...
Spaced repetition is simple, but highly effective.”
And it's free! So download it and begin Feeding Your Elephant.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.26
Last updated on Oct 23, 2017
Old Versions
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Title screen layout fix for iOS 11
- Title screen layout fix for iOS 11
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Version History
2.26
Oct 23, 2017
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Title screen layout fix for iOS 11
- Title screen layout fix for iOS 11
2.25
Oct 22, 2017
- Cloud restore from backup and updates
- Improved sound effects
- Questions limited to maximum of 10 per session
- Ranking progress counts up rather than down
- In-app ratings
- Double alerts at 10 questions
- Various other minor improvements and fixes
- Improved sound effects
- Questions limited to maximum of 10 per session
- Ranking progress counts up rather than down
- In-app ratings
- Double alerts at 10 questions
- Various other minor improvements and fixes
2.23
Oct 21, 2017
- Cloud restore from backup and updates
- Improved sound effects
- Questions limited to maximum of 10 per session
- Ranking progress counts up rather than down
- In-app ratings
- Double alerts at 10 questions
- Various other minor improvements and fixes
- Improved sound effects
- Questions limited to maximum of 10 per session
- Ranking progress counts up rather than down
- In-app ratings
- Double alerts at 10 questions
- Various other minor improvements and fixes
2.20
Sep 28, 2017
- Improved sound effects
- Questions limited to maximum of 10 per session
- In-app ratings
- Cloud updates
- Double alerts at 10 questions
- Questions limited to maximum of 10 per session
- In-app ratings
- Cloud updates
- Double alerts at 10 questions
2.02
May 19, 2017
Revamped user interface with many improvements.
Number flashed after answer now shows 'how many questions to next ranking.'
Tap ranking to show ranking ladder during countdown to next question.
Minor bug fixes.
Number flashed after answer now shows 'how many questions to next ranking.'
Tap ranking to show ranking ladder during countdown to next question.
Minor bug fixes.
2.01
May 10, 2017
Revamped user interface with many improvements.
Number flashed after answer now shows 'how many questions to next ranking.'
Tap ranking to show ranking ladder during countdown to next question.
Minor bug fixes.
Number flashed after answer now shows 'how many questions to next ranking.'
Tap ranking to show ranking ladder during countdown to next question.
Minor bug fixes.
2.0
May 7, 2017
Revamped user interface with many improvements.
1.44
Mar 2, 2017
- Added undo for those who tap in haste
- Added smoothing for next question based on average of next 10
- Added new ranking request for rating or feedback
- Bug fixes
- Added smoothing for next question based on average of next 10
- Added new ranking request for rating or feedback
- Bug fixes
1.43
Feb 16, 2017
1.43
- Added combiner for duplicate question with different answer
1.42
- Fixed bug with badge notifications double counting
1.41
- Fixed bug with questions in multiple modules being double counted
1.4
- Improved progress feedback for each question
1.3
- Reconfigured to allow questions to live in multiple modules.
- Added percentage completion to modules and questions.
- Increased frame size of help video to full screen.
- Added combiner for duplicate question with different answer
1.42
- Fixed bug with badge notifications double counting
1.41
- Fixed bug with questions in multiple modules being double counted
1.4
- Improved progress feedback for each question
1.3
- Reconfigured to allow questions to live in multiple modules.
- Added percentage completion to modules and questions.
- Increased frame size of help video to full screen.
1.1
Nov 4, 2016
- Added maps for countries and images for capital cities.
- Added link to youtube videos for city and country pronunciation guides.
- Improved startup phase.
- Improved look and feel.
- Added link to youtube videos for city and country pronunciation guides.
- Improved startup phase.
- Improved look and feel.
1.0
Sep 23, 2016
Feed Your Elephant Capitals FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Feed Your Elephant Capitals in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Feed Your Elephant Capitals.
iPhone
Requires iOS 10.3 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 10.3 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 10.3 or later.
Feed Your Elephant Capitals supports English
Feed Your Elephant Capitals contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Unlock all modules
$1.99
All Countries
$1.99
South American Countries
$0.99
Oceanic Countries
$0.99
North American Countries
$0.99
European Countries
$0.99
Asian Countries
$0.99
African Countries
$0.99