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ELA: Writing K-8 iOS App

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Pros

  • App covers twelve different topics in reasonable depth.

Considerations

  • Students will find it tedious to read through the lessons independently.
  • There are mistakes in some of the questions which could mislead or frustrate students.
  • The constant on-screen advertisements interfere with the learning experience.

Mindprint Expert Review

This app has plenty of good lesson information, but it is an ineffective tool for self-directed learning. The app includes 12 lessons on different parts of speech (nouns, conjunctions, irregular verbs, etc.). The student must scroll through approximately ten pages of text, without pictures or audio, to learn the information. A very self-motivated student may be willing to read and learn the information this way, but parents should not expect most students to read these lessons independently. Each topic has a ten question multiple choice quiz that has an on-screen timer and immediate feedback on each answer. Although the questions are generally straight-forward, we found mistakes and/or multiple correct answers in the questions which could be quite frustrating or misleading. The flashing on-screen advertisements that can very easily be accidentally clicked on probably will render this app unusable by most families.

Academic Benefits

Improves academic skills

  • Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
  • Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
  • Presents educational concepts accurately
  • Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
  • Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
  • Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
  • Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
  • Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
  • Visually appealing to children in the target age range
  • Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
  • Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
  • Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
  • Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Has a free or trial version
  • Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
  • Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
  • Student should be able to use independently after first use
  • Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
  • Multiple users can save a profile
  • Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
  • Can play without sound and not distract others
  • Students can save work between sessions
  • Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
  • Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
  • Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
  • Overall - Easy to use

Cognitive Concerns

May not be advisable for students with the following cognitive needs

  • Anxiety
    • A player's success depends on speed
    • Timer cannot be hidden
  • Attention
    • Shows advertisements
    • Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
    • Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
    • Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Organization
    • Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Reading Basics
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Reading Comprehension
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Reading Fluency
    • A player's success depends on speed
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Self-regulation
    • Shows advertisements
    • A player's success depends on speed
  • Verbal Reasoning
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
  • Visual Discrimination
    • Shows advertisements
    • Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
    • Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
  • Vocabulary
  • Working Memory
    • Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
    • Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own

Manufacturer Description

Want to be an English Master ?
Love answering questions? Love playing? Loving studying? How about doing it together?! ...Thrilled?
Enjoy this new experience of learning English with fun. Lots of questions to play. Try answering your best!

FREE
English Easy Tutor is completely free to play. No in-app purchases.

CHALLENGING
You have to learn and prove it by answering questions.
Some questions are easy, some others of medium challenge and lot others are the really tough! Think & try. Take the challenge.

HOURS OF FUN WHILE YOU LEARN
English Easy Tutor include hundreds of fun and challenging questions along with English language tutorials! How many can you solve?
Train your brain and amuse your friends for hours with English Easy Tutor! Download it today! Get knowledge from fun!!

FEATURES
Categories covering all English Grammar topics
Well written tutorials in all categories
Categories and Chapters are added on daily basis
Three modes for each category - Easy, Medium and Hard
Music on/off option
Daily updated questions for every category
Share score in Facebook, twitter etc and challenge your friends
Displays your top scores in each category
Facility to search the full chapters using keywords.
Facility to bookmark / favorite important chapters

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Note: This application is for learning the English language in basic level for beginners. More and more chapters and questions will be added almost every day. Stay tuned to increase your language expertise.