Games+and+Apps+for+Education

=How Do Games Help Student Achievement?=

Quality Instruction + Game Based Learning Theory Integration + Feedback Cycle + High AND Low Tech Tools BYOD style
media type="custom" key="24218294" = = =Games for Learning= >> The first lesson that I tried on Cookie was a handwriting lesson. The lesson directed me to draw letters and numbers by following the arrows. If I didn't go in the correct order, a red "x" stopped my progress until I went back and traced correctly. >> >> >> >> ** Applications for Education ** >> An embed code is available for the games and lessons on Cookie. If you have a resource page for your classroom or school, Cookie's resources could be a great addition to that page. >> >> //H/T to David Kapuler.// //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.// > ScootPad is a free service offering mathematics and reading practice activities to elementary school students and their teachers. ScootPad activities can be played on just about any device including iPads, Android tablets, and Chromebooks. ScootPad offers a lot of features, but at it's core is practice activities aligned to Common Core standards. Teachers can create classroom accounts in which they can manage all aspects of their students' accounts including password resets. The best part is ScootPad allows teachers to monitor how their students are doing on each concept in the practice activities. The ScootPad teacher panel allows you to assign homework to your students. You can set activation and deactivation dates for the homework activities. To complete the homework assignments students sign into their accounts to complete the activities anytime during the open window. Their results are instantly visible in your teacher panel. The homework panel also includes a reading log that students and or their parents update. Each class that you create on ScootPad has its own class wall where students and teachers can post messages for each other. It could be a good place to post reminders and encouragements for students. Applications for Education ScootPadcould be a great tool for providing students with practice activities targeted to the areas in which they need the most practice. The reports are quite specific which can be helpful not only for you, but also for parents who want to know which skills their children need to practice the most. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. > **(//www.dreambox.com//)** > Dreambox Learning Math features more than 100 new lessons for a total of over 600 lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards, including in-depth fractions coverage for third and fourth grades, and virtual manipulatives for K-5. (Subscription, 30 day free trial) Apps for Education (iPad, smartphones, etc.) > > > > > > (www.pearsonschool.com/ssapps) > Pearson offers a growing collection of social studies apps to engage students in learning about history, geography, economics, and civics. The Games apps for American and World History each feature over 100 arcade games, puzzles, and interactive word games covering dozens of topics such as the Civil War, the Civil Rights Era, Ancient Rome, and the Industrial Revolution.
 * PlayBrighter ([|www.playbrighter.com]) FREE
 * PlayBrighter combines computer gaming with studying in a unique online platform that offers educational games to engage students. It can be used to teach any subject, and teachers can choose from a database of over 2000 question sets or input their own questions. The subscription package includes high-quality Flash games that focus on a “mission” set by teachers. The results are accessible to teachers in the form of a detailed breakdown of results, and the students receive a mission grade.
 * EdHeads.org
 * Edheads provides free, educational online games focused on science, math, and critical thinking. Our activities are designed to meet both state and national standards. We partner with corporations, universities, and school systems throughout the United States, which help us research, design, and test our activities every step of the way. Not only do teachers and students appreciate our free activities, Edheads has been recognized by almost every major award on the Web for our excellent educational content. So click the "Choose an Activity" tab at the top of the page to dive into an activity and let the fun and learning begin!
 * Cookie Offers Excellent Educational Games >
 * Cookie is a site offering dozens of excellent educational games for pre-K and elementary school students. The games that I tried all featured large, clear graphics that make it easy to start playing immediately. Cookie doesn't just provide games, it also offers short animated video lessons. At the end of each lesson there is a short quiz that students can use to test their new knowledge. Each game and lesson automatically launches in full screen thereby eliminating and potential sidebar distractions.
 * ScootPad - Students Practice Skills from Any Device and Teachers Get Instant Feedback Too
 * **Learning Math**
 * SmarTots is a website that hosts reviews of iPad & iPhone apps for young students. App reviews on SmarTots are written by teachers and parents. The reviews are arranged according to content area and age of the intended users. To find an app for your students go to SmarTots then select an age or content area. Unfortunately, it seems that you cannot combine the two filters. SmarTots reviews both free and paid apps.
 * K-5 core language standards
 * Apps for Common Core Math Standards, Grades 6-8
 * Apps for Common Core Math Standards, Grades 9-12
 * [|20+ Fun Free Apps that Promote Student Centered Learning & Literacy]
 * Apps for Students with Special Needs
 * Teach with your iPad - Wonderful wiki that lists a ton of apps by subject, type, and grade level. A must see!
 * Achiever! for iPad (//www.brainchild.com//) Brainchild’s new Achiever! app is designed for elementary and middle school students and has state specific and Common Core content available. The app delivers a full range of standards-based instruction and assessment on the iPad for Math and Language arts. Study mode provides immediate feedback for incorrect answers and allows students to work through problems until they get the answer correct.
 * Tech&Learning's Top 10 Sites for Educational Apps
 * 1) [|APPitic] - Great site with over 1300 reviews done by Apple Distinguished Educators. These apps have been tested in different grade levels with different instructional strategies.
 * 2) [|Mind Leap] - Excellent site with reviews built on a five-star scale. Reviews are done on a wide range of subjects and offers a nice breakdown of statistics such as educational quality, engagement factor, and shelf life.
 * 3) [|Best Kids Apps] - Site with great reviews on iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. These reviews have a basic age rating and a nice image to go along too.
 * 4) [|Mac App Store] - Probably the most comprehensive list of apps around. This application from Apple is the ideal place to find and purchase apps. Works on Snow Leopard OS and above.
 * 5) [|Fun Educational Apps] - Ideal place to find reviews of apps for the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. This is one of my favorite sites to find in-depth reviews with lots of pictures of the app.
 * 6) [|Smart Apps for Kids] - Designed by a dad on a journey to find the best iPhone & iPad apps. These apps are reviewed on a four-star scale and offer a nice "bottom line" for those who don't want to read the whole review.
 * 7) [|Best Apps for Kids] - Wonderful site that does a great breakdown of an educational app, with reviews done on a scale of one through five. Offers readers advice on whether they should purchase the app or not.
 * 8) [|Teachers with Apps] - Great site with reviews of apps that include videos and images. Ideal for teachers looking to find that perfect app for the classroom.
 * 9) [|Apps in Education] - Nice collection of iPad apps that are reviewed by subject. These reviews are brief and to the point.
 * 10) [|I Education Apps Review] - Designed as a community effort of reviews posted by a variety of users. There are even student reviews to give a unique perspective on the use of an app.
 * More Recommended Apps Resources:Pearson’s Social Studies Apps
 * [|IEAR- I Education Apps Review]- a new report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, looks at 196 recent top-selling iPad and iPhone apps from the education category. Among its findings: over 80% target kids from preschool to middle school, with 60% of the top 25 targeting toddler and preschool children. As this suggests, "early learning" apps are the most popular, followed by math--but literacy apps are "surprisingly sparse." The average price of these apps has risen by about $1 from a similar study in 2009, but the majority are still priced moderately at $0.99 or $1.99.
 * [|SNapps4Kids]- SNapps review adds an embedded list of skills that are addressed in every app they review.
 * [|Scoop it- Recommended Educational App Lists]- You can join the site or simply use this link to see what they are reviewing. The information is current and presented in a user-friendly manner.
 * [|Apps in Education]- Great blog spot! Includes apps for music, math, English teachers, special needs and more.
 * [|App Advice] is not only a website but an app: [|appadvice] $1.99. Enjoy reading App Guides, Lists, Reviews and Charts.

Creating Games and Apps > A list of sources for creating Apps ... Apple and Android. The nice thing about this list is that it offers options for the full range of students .. from the very geeky programmer to those who just want to follow some simple instructions ... allowing differentiation. You could also replace the word "student" and "teacher" ;-) ... you don't have to be techi ... but a good idea and ome design skills would help. @http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/createapps/ > > > iPad as an interactive tablet:  Research >
 * Creating Apps for Apple and Android devices
 * Build Your Own Video Games on Sploder
 * Sploder is a website that offers free tools for creating your own video games. There are four basic game templates that you can modify to your heart's content. The four templates are a physics puzzle game, an algorithm creator (which reminded me a little of Zelda), a shooter game template, and a blank platform which I used to create a simple Mario Brothers-like game.
 * Creating games on the Sploder platform is a drag and drop process. You can select as many elements as like for each scene of your game. Game elements can be resized and re-used repeatedly throughout your games. When you think you're ready to publish your game, use the Sploder game tester to try your game and see how it actually works. If you find something you want to change in your game, you can do that at anytime after testing it and before publishing your final product.
 * Sploder has a YouTube channel containing some tutorials to walk you through creating games. I've embedded one of the tutorials below.
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 * Sploder has a YouTube channel containing some tutorials to walk you through creating games. I've embedded one of the tutorials below.
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 * Applications for Education
 * Creating a game on Splodercould be a good way to get students to think about the logic and sequencing used to plan and develop video games. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.
 * We just tried Splashtop Streamer download on Macs or PC and then Splashtop Whiteboard App for the IPad. We have Smartboards and notebook software that goes with it and this App allows us to us IPad as a tablet. - Bev Meyer - Green HIlls School
 * Two great iPAD apps for this are: ShowMe and Educreations. I just started using the Educreations today. Both are very similar in nature and work great! - Mark Davis - HS Technology Coordinator - Dobyns-Bennett High School - Kingsport, TN
 * The School That Launched 1,000 iPads - Patrick Larkin is the principal of Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts. His school has one of the most forward-thinking policies regarding cell phones and tablets. This year his school put iPads in the students' hands. Patrick and his team have constructed an FAQ sheet with links about their program. You can find that document here as a Google Document or by visiting Patrick's blog and downloading the document as an ePub file. Applications for Education If your school is considering a 1:1 program with iPads, take a look at what Patrick's school has done. While the resources on Patrick's blog deal with iPads, many of the FAQs offer good information that applies to any 1:1 program. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Follow on Google+, Facebook, or Twitter.
 * From the Classroom: Best Tech Practice Video of the Week - iPad Workshop - Today's video features special education teacher and TL contributor Vicki Windman as she demonstrates the use of iPad apps for special needs students. In the audience are educators from the [|Rebecca School], a therapeutic day school for children ages 4 to 21 in New York City. To learn more about the apps shown in the video, visit Vicki Windman's wikispace.
 * [|Give Students Mobile Devices to Maximize Their Learning Time]
 * Five Common iPad App Questions Answered (and Fabulous Resources as well) from Tech&Learning