Educational Software 2
www.schoolforge.net/education-software/educational-edutainment/gcompris
GCompris
This is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children 2 to 10. Some of the activities are games oriented. The categories and activities are:
Computer Discovery - keyboard, mouse, different mouse gestures
Algebra table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image
Science the canal lock, the water cycle, electric simulation, the submarine
Geography place the country on the map
Games chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku
Reading reading practice
This a drill and practiceexercise where it challeanges the students to use their mind and be creative in solving the problems. It gives immediate response to the student's work whether teir answers are corrct or incorrect. Since most of the students are computer literate, it is easier for them to do the work on the computer rather than pen to paper. According to Bloom's Taxonomy (1986) called automaticity, where children automatically recall of these beginners skills to a more advance level.
A link to my friends website where she touched on the other aspect of the school's curriculum, being science.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
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These stuff are quite magnificent;they take learning to another level with a touch of creativity. There are now so many avenues to facilitate learning that teachers now have a range of choices in which he/she can captivate their students to boost learning.Excellent stuff.
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