There is a solution to the ravenous airtime appetite among high school pupils. A new educational learning platform hit South Africa which rewards pupils with incentives including airtime and shopping voucher for completing tasks.The aim of the app, called LevelUp, is to help pupils improve their academic performance, and The Reach Trust plans to reach a million children around the country.“There’s been a lot of general emphasis on access to information being key to unlocking a learner’s potential. And while it is vital, we believe that inspiration, motivation and rewards play equally important roles,” said the trust’s chief executive officer Andrew Rudge.LevelUp features free curriculum aligned content for Grade eight to 12 pupils, and also has life skills programmes and an advice section dealing with topics related to sexual health among others.The ''Daily Challenges'' test pupils’ knowledge. By, for example, reading an article one could earn 10 points which can be redeemed for rewards." Reward options for performing learners vary from airtime and data to shopping coupons for products. The launch partners include Shoprite an Checkers,'' a statement by the trust read.It’s available as a free Android app from the Google Play Store and a mobi site: www.mylevelup.mobi South African celebrities, including surfer Roxy Louw, have pledged their support. But the trust is calling on the public to help with donations to reward performing pupils.Meanwhile a website, Rethink Education, is making waves on mobile platforms. It started out on the now defunct MiXit platform. Founding director Doug Hoernle said they reached more than half a million pupils every month and found users were most active between 4am and 8am while travelling to school.He said subjects were presented in a chat format as if someone was ''text messaging the student the topic''.However as feature phones were being dumped, they had to change to smart phone learning but data affordability proved problematic."To support these students we had to build a very, very data light learning platform,'' said Hoernle."It doesn't require you to download any apps. You just hit the website and you can get onto the platform and start learning. The attraction has been incredible again.''Hoernle said their product, app.rethinkeducation.co.za,  had caught the attention of other countries, but he could not elaborate yet."Take Indonesia, with all its islands. It is difficult to get textbooks there but they all have cell phones and connectivity - what an opportunity...