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June 9, 2013
Fun and rewarding app for young learners to practice basic literacy and math skills
Alien Buddies has great audio instructions to help pre or early readers use the app to practice numbers, letters, shapes, and colors. When practicing letters, teachers and students can choose between all lower-case, all upper-case or mixed. I like that if students touch a letter/number/etc, it is said aloud but unfortunately, when a child make a correct match (i.e., letter "G" to letter "G") the only response is something like "hooray" and nothing is said to reinforce the content. The app is fun for students but fairly standard skill and drill work that does not allow for a lot of student-directed learning or open-ended creativity. The Sticker activities is the only creation-based part of the app.
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