Reviewing Educational Apps

ABC Kids

• Tracing upper and lowercase letters
• Letter Identification
• Letter matching
• Colorful and fun lion character
• Helpful audio to pronounce letters

Can They Use it?

• Four simple game modes that are very clear
• No confusing instructions
• Fun animated voice of Tiger pronounces letters
• Just tracing with fingers
• No other reading so easy for beginners which app is intended for

Is it Fun but Educational?

• Tiger character is friendly and interacts with letters
• Fun sounds and celebration once letter is traced or indentified correctly
• Rewards student to motivate them with stickers

Is it Useful?

• Small collection of modes keeps it focused on basic letter drawing and identification
• Allows for certain activities to be done
• Simple for K through 1 students

Evaluation

• Easy to use
• Entertaining but educational
• Pertains to set curriculum and grade level
• Good App

Educational Games for Kids

• Letters, numbers, shapes, colors, months, and days identification
• Helpful pictures to go along with letter identification
• Audio for pronunciation

Are They Learning?

• Slideshow system of reviewing of subjects
• Picture and audio associated with each slide
• Wide curriculum

Is it Fun?

• Fun and colorful animations
• Not much interaction
• No fun characters

Is it Socially Active?

• Doesn't use content in context
• No fun characters to interact with
• Not connected with any partner/ not a two player game

Evaluation

• Not very interactive but still contains good content
• Fun but not many animations
• No social aspect
• Not a very good app but decent
• More of a discussion type of app rather than hands on