DIGITAL BLOG POST #E chapter 7

As a student being in the classroom, sometimes it can be boring. The teachers monotone voice. Like the guy from eye commercial, I know Ben Stein is just acting but that’s how I describe it. Sometimes being in the classroom for a long period of time just makes everything boring and really uninteresting.So what happens is the student leaves and goes home and start playing a game on their phone. Students are learning and not even realizing it. There are so many educational apps for tablets and smart phones. I really like when people are playing an app called “Trivia Crack.” It’s a really fun game, where it involves a lot of different categories from art to history to science, well you get it. But  everyone is playing this and not realizing that it is an education game. Im shocked and surprised that people are getting into. Another learning is called “Duolingo,” what this app is a language educational app. It has different ways of making you understand the language you want to learn.

Ben Stein Photo Credit from: Kat Ruddy 

When I was in elementary school, had we this part of the day where we were placed in certain group and we would go together to rotation. What this meant was that depending the day we either had to go to computer lab, reading cornering, the learning table, or wherever the teacher wanted us to go. For the rest of us the exciting part was being able to go to the computer lab where we got to play “games.” They were educational, needless to say they were games and we got to have a learning break for at least 30 to 45mins. Growing up with these games, I feel had differently made a difference for me. Learning about states with Carmen Santiago, going on educational adventures with the ClueFinders, or learning how to survive in the West with the Oregon Trail people. There were so many games and they each possessed something to learn from. Whether it was math, vocabulary, critical thinking. I loved buying these games and actually using them at home.

                                                                                 photo credit: Vivith Bharath

When our classroom got to go on fieldtrips, we got to go to Imaginarium Science Center.

This place was amazing! I loved the simulations they had. It was all about hands and interacting. It was amazing, to see all the different types of computer generated conflicted choices and goals they give a student. I really like the weather box simulator. What happens is, you are presented with a city and this city has a different environment and you have to protect it from the severe weather. You are given a computer simulator to see if you protected the city well enough if not they actually show you what you could've done instead.

I've made a Trivia game on Kahoot! PLease try it out and see if you guess it right!


Resources:

https://www.flickr.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ClueFinders

http://i-sci.org/