TeachThought: 100 Of The Best Educational Games For iPad

The Technology Based topic from TeachThought I chose is the 100 Of The Best Educational Games For iPad.  I chose this topic because integrating quality games into my curriculum is something I have been trying to do. 

I mostly teach low phase freshman.  These are students who scored in the bottom 25% of our entrance test and many of them have documented learning differences.  As we are in the first year of an iPad initiative at our school, I believe these students would benefit from games being a regular part of units.  However, I have had a difficult time finding age appropriate and ability appropriate ones to use.  I have spent a lot of time looking for games that involve grammar, but have not had much success.  This kind of sums up the pros and cons of this topic: games would work well with these students, but the right ones have been hard to come by.

In perusing this blog, I came across a few games although none that focused on parts of speech/grammar.  There were several games on SAT prep and SAT vocabulary.  These would be good to use to draw the students in to a topic that they are not usually too enthusiastic about.  I found a couple of others that I could somehow tie in to grammar lessons.  One was on creating Word Clouds.  As we cover each part of speech, I could have the students make different Clouds.  Another was on photo editing.  The students could be assigned to take and edit photos showing the various parts of speech. 

The most important and perhaps the best way to stay up to date on technology emerging trends is to do what I am doing, taking classes.  Prior to beginning this masters program and probably again after I complete it, I will depend on professional development provided by my school and as well as other outlets.  I have also become familiar with countless sites that will help to keep me up to date.

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