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January 8, 2016
App Dives Right In, but Very Basic Overall
Upon booting up this app, it just dives right in to the games. For preschoolers, this is great because they don't need to do much to start it up. The games are very fast-paced, and come one right after the other. There's no particular order to how the games appear. Every so often, the child can earn a toy for their toy shelf to keep. The graphics and music definitely keep the young ones intrigued and they do want to keep playing.
However, on the teacher side of things, it's not very beneficial to the classroom environment. It does better in a home environment. The teacher can only have 3 different accounts set up for students, which is hard to do in a classroom. There is no way for the teacher to check progress made by a student, or select areas for the student to work on. There is no way for the program to go above and beyond the basics that it already presents. Once a child has mastered the very basic skills presented in the game, there is no reason for them to continue playing. The game would benefit from having multiple difficulty settings.
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