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Focus on one app with “Guided Access”
The new iOS 6 was released today, and there’s one new feature that parents and teachers will like in particular: Guided Access. Guided Access allows you to temporarily disable the home button and certain parts of the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch screen. So you can set up your child with a fun Motion Math [...]
Power to the Preschoolers – making Hungry Guppy
Today we’ve launched our new game Motion Math: Hungry Guppy. It’s our first game for 3- to 7-years olds and uses dots to teach numbers and addition. You can read about the game’s learning goals and features here and download it on the App Store. In this post we want to share how we created Hungry Guppy and some of the special design challenges we faced making an app for younger kids.
Motion Math Pro Suite Now Available
We’ve heard from teachers that they’d prefer to have our games without In-App Purchase so they can use Apple’s Volume Purchase Program, and get the Program’s 50% discount. We’ve also heard from a few reviewers who prefer not to deal with In-App Purchase. So today we’re happy to announce that for back-to-school we’ve released our Pro Suite – pay-to-download, fully-unlocked versions of all our games.
The 7 Ways Video Games Make Us Smarter
Number two on Andy Grossman’s joyful list: good video games improve problem-solving skills.
Calling all San Francisco teachers!
Do you teach elementary school students in San Francisco? We’d like to visit your classroom to test our latest math games – we’ll bring the iPads and our latest prototype.
Landmark study: Motion Math improves fractions knowledge, attitudes
Very exciting news: today GameDesk has published the first experimental research on iPad learning. Professor Michelle Riconscente, an expert in educational technology and assessment at USC, studied 122 5th graders playing our iPad game Motion Math HD.
Praise effort, not smarts
There’s an excellent review of Carol Dweck’s work on mindset and related neuroscience research in this month’s Wired. Essentially, people who believe more in their ability to grow mentally (a growth mindset) learn more from mistakes that those who have a static view of their own intelligence (a fixed mindset).
