Positivo Informatica

Business Type Manufacturer
Year Established 1988
Main Products E-Blocks,
Country/Region Brazil

Company Introduction



The Positivo Group was founded in 1972 and in just over three decades became a Brazilian leader in the three segments it operates in: printing-editorial, information technology and educational. With Positivo Inform?tica, the Positivo Group works in the national market as well as the international market, offering the most advanced solutions for technology, fabrication of microcomputers and the development of other tools for educational hardware and software. Certified by the ISO 14001 and ISO 9001, the company also manages specialised educational ports. (Portal Educacional, Portal Aprende Brasil, Portal Positivo, Portal Universit?rio and Portal ePC), and offers a service to train teachers and technological and pedagogical support to partner schools.

The main solution developed to the International Market is E-Blocks, an innovative solution for teaching English to children aged from five to ten years old. The product comprises an electronic panel, software, audio CD, books, flashcards and blocks, among other tools that stimulate learning and interaction.
The structure and content of E-Blocks is based on internationally recognised English language teaching methods such as the Cambridge Young Learners Syllabus. The children form small groups and interact with the system and themselves.  The computer shows images, animations and games accompanied by music and dialogs that have been recorded by native speakers of English and the students respond to these stimuli by positioning blocks on the portable panel with optical sensors. Once the four learning stages have been completed, the student will have acquired vocabulary of approximately 1,200 English words and expressions and will have learnt pronunciation and basic grammatical structures.
E-Blocks was developed by members of an English language and educational technology specialist group from the research and educational group of Positivo Inform?tica.
More information is available at: www.eblocks.net

Contact Information

Contact Person Juliano Fornasaro
Job Title International Sales Manager
Telephone 55 - 41 - 3167815
Fax Number 55 - 41 - 3167740
Address Sen. Accioly Filho, 1021 Curitiba Parana 81310-000 Brazil
Fax 55 - 41 - 3167740