EDU 1302 Assessment Two Childrens Educational App Evaluation and Report

Objective:
Students will learn how to evaluate a childrens educational app by both using a rubric and
interviewing children. Students will use theory of child development to whether the app is
suitable for a given age and if it is educational.
Instructions:
1. Choose a free educational app that is appropriate for the children in your TP class.

Name of App

Maths, age 3-5

Icon

Suitable for ages

3-5 years

Skills practiced

cognitive / Fine motor skills

2. Research the skills and abilities of a child that age using the Child Development
textbook.
Write down several of the abilities and skills a child that age can do in each domain.
Cognitive

Social/Emotional

Fine Motor Skills

(including language)
Age 3:

- share toys.

- enjoy listen to music.

- enjoy helping

- talk to themselves when

playing.

- remember and repeat songs.

adults.

- develop fears.
- enjoy family

- copying a building
pattern, including a
bridge.

- drawing a face.
- copy circles and letters.

mealtime.
Age 4:

- enjoy counting up to 20, and

understand the concept of
numbers up to three.

- can sort objects into groups.

- have increase memory skills.
- can give reasons and solve
problem.
Age 5:
- are interesting in reading and
writing.

- Can give their full name.

- talk about past,present and
future.

- enjoy jokes and riddle .

- can eat skillfully

with a spoon and a
fork.

- wash and dry their

hands.

- dress themselves.

- build a tower of ten or

more cubes.

- holding a pen in an
adult fashion.

- can spread their hands.

- like to be with
other kids.

- choose there own

friends.

- enjoy caring for

pets.

- able to amuse
themselves.

- copy a square.
- copy elaborate models.
- draw a person.
- copy letters
V,H,O,X,L,A,C,U and Y.

3. What do others think about your App? Finding and reading reviews.
Go to your Apps website and read the reviews that people have written about your
app. Read at least 5 different reviews with different ratings.
Copy them here and write a one sentence summary for each one.
Review

Your summary sentence

My 3 year old son has taken fancy for this Kids taken fancy
app. Really educational value. Five start
for it.
Both my kids love to play this and have
learned a lot through this.

Kids leared a lot

My kid absolutely love it. purchased apps

is huge and has many to offer,
multitasking, multi level and multi
language.

Its a free app and its better than

purchased apps

Good app.
Very good.

4. Rubric Score
Play with the app yourself and evaluate it by filling out the rubric
Overall score YOU gave app= 18 out of 20 = 90%

5. Childrens Evaluations

In order to evaluate the application. it is important to know the

childrens idea and opinion about the application. several questions have
been asked to know the their thought about the application. The first
question was Which part of the game do you like most? , Why do you
like it? and What you learn from the app? . Shamsa is a student in FS1
said that she liked matching animals game, because she love animals, and
she has learned how to match pictures. Saeed is another student that I
asked for his opinion, he said, that he like sorting colors game, because he
love colors and he like to use different colors, and he has learned a new
color witch is grey. The third student that I asked about his opinion is
Shatha, she said that she likes sorting sizes game, because she like to draw,
and she has learned a new shapes and colors.

Take your iPad with you to TP

Tell the MST that you are evaluating an educational app for your EDU 1302 course at the
college. Ask her what a good time would be for you to let THREE children play with the app.

Let the child play with the app.

Show him/her how to play with it if needed. Let them play long enough to get the
feel for it and be successful.

Questions to ask the children about your app. Think of three good questions to ask the
children who play your app game. DO not just say, Did you like it?.

You want to ask questions to find out exactly what they liked or did not like about the app.
Which ASPECTS of the game did they like/dislike?

Write your WELL WRITTEN questions and the kids answers here.

1. Witch part of the game do you like most?

Student 1: Shamsa: Matching animals game.
Student 2: Saeed: Sorting colors game.
Student 3: Shatha: Sorting sizes game

1. Why do you like it?

Student 1: Shamsa: because I love animals.
Student 2: Saeed: because I love colors and I can use different colors.
Student 3: Shatha: Because I like to draw.

1. What you learn from the app?

Student 1: Shamsa: Matching picture.
Student 2: Saeed - I ask him what new color you have learnd? He said: Grey.
Student 3: Shatha: know new shapes and colors.

6. Report Write a six-paragraph evaluation report about your app.

(one draft only: typed and in report format which we will discuss next week)

paragraph

info
Give the name of your app, which age it is suitable for, which skills are

being practiced, an overview of how you play and what you have to
do, etc.

Give a summary of the five reviews your read about your app.

Give a summary of your rubric evaluation of the app

Give a summary of the childrens evaluations of the app

Theory-use the theory you know about what a child at that age can or

cannot do. Is this app suitable/appropriate for a child of that age? Is

it too easy? Too difficult? Boring? Fun?
Conclusion: What changes can you think of to make this app even

better?

Your English will be marked as well. Be sure to use correct spelling, grammar and vocabulary.
You will also be marked on how you used the theory you have learned to evaluate the app.
.

Preschool Education apps are a fun time with many learning activities.
Preschool learning games teach kids to recognize colors, shapes,concentrate,
learning activities to build mouse skills, build pre-phonics reading skills, and to
have a love of learning. Maths, age 3-5 its an application witch helps kids to
reach their full potential in maths. and its for kids from 3 to 5 years old.
Maths,age 3-5 features many things. For example, 10 core topics for the
early years of school with over 80 activities, a teacher figure who shows how to
use it, variety and fun, progression and plenty of practice, a quiz at the end of
each topic with a certificate, and a naming button, to personalize the app for
the child. And the topics that the app covered is, sorting and matching (yours
for free), counting to 3, lines and patterns, counting 4 to 6, counting 7 to 10,
patterns and shapes, counting 1 to 10, comparing and add and take away.

Parents and kids who download Maths, age 3-5, gave the app 4 golden
stars, and comments that its a good app children lean a lot from it, kids take it
fancy, and Its a free app witch its better than purchasing apps.

In my opinion the application its so helpful for kids to reach their full
potential in maths, and its excellent graphics and sound Very appealing
enhanced my experience, kept kids motivated and engaged most of the time,
easy to learn and direction can be followed, performs and loads quickly, and
there are no issues and its very reliable. Also, its they can customize the app
app for themselves.

In order to evaluate the application. it is important to know the childrens

idea and opinion about the application. several questions have been asked to
know the their thought about the application. The first question was Which
part of the game do you like most? , Why do you like it? and What you
learn from the app? . Shamsa is a student in FS1 said that she liked matching
animals game, because she love animals, and she has learned how to match
pictures. Saeed is another student that I asked for his opinion, he said, that he
like sorting colors game, because he love colors and he like to use different
colors, and he has learned a new color witch is grey. The third student that I
asked about his opinion is Shatha, she said that she likes sorting sizes game,
because she like to draw, and she has learned a new shapes and colors.

Maths, age 3-5 its an application for 3-5 years old kids. The application
helps the children to develop their fine motor skills. Such as, draw a face, a
person, hold a pen copy a square,circles and letters. and pointing at the icons.
Also, it helps the children cognitively by doing maths.For example enjoy
counting up to 20, and understand the concept of numbers up to three, have
increased memory skills, are interested in reading and writing and talk to
themselves when playing. In addition, it helps them socially and emotionally. To
illustrate, like to be with other kids,choose their own friends and able to
amuse themselves.

In conclusion, Maths. age 3-5 , its a wonderful and great application

that doesn't need any changes to make it even better, because its good for
learning activities to build fine motor skills and its even enough for kids to
reach their full potential in maths.

EDU 1302
Section 1
Name: Hamda Khamis AlJabri
ID: H00294528
Submitted to: Ms. Jean Linehan
Date: 4th May 2015