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| Playing a self-created game! |
After penning an email to a fellow teacher about the game design and coding apps I use in the classroom, I thought that there may be others out there who are interested in bringing these 21st C tech ideas into their classrooms as well!
(please note that I am in no way sponsered by these sites or apps. They are just ones that my students and I have found and love!)
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| First Test |
Game Design:
The number one app for this right now is PIXEL PRESS FLOORS.
http://www.projectpixelpress.com/floors/
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| Problem Solving and Teamwork |
I LOVE THIS APP! My student immediately could start drawing and seeing his work come to life. He knows what he likes in a game, and can test and problem solve his game until he thinks it is perfect.
Students have a choice of drawing write in the app, starting from a template, or using their graph paper (available for free on their website) to draw it by hand at home, and then take a photo of it in the app to upload it.
I have printed a bunch of paper for the classroom so that all of my students can work on it! (We only have 4 iPads in the room).
Then when EVERYTHING is done, you can publish it to allows people across the world to play it. After the first week he had 57 people play his game. He was so excited that he began to cry!!
Coding Online:
Coding is so important for students to learn, as it forms the basis of all online, tech and gaming content.
Using the Hour of Code website students can play and design their own versions of fun games (flappy bird, angry birds, frozen). It starts simple enough that our kindergarten students were trying it, but has enough levels that our grade 5’s are still challenged by it.
http://code.org/learn
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| Practicing Coding |
Coding Apps:
There are a number of free apps available but the following are the ones that we have found to be the most fun and educational!
The Foos http://thefoos.com/
Kodable (site and app) https://www.kodable.com/register
Scratch Jr http://www.scratchjr.org/
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