Can't Remember the Name of that App :-)

Remember the days when the teacher let us play a review game to prepare for a test?  It often didn't involve any more technology than the lights that lit the classroom.   We were divided into teams of somewhere around 4 or 5 students, asked questions, earned points, and winners got candy.  Although this method of review and motivation still works somewhat, lets face it, students these days a bit more high-tech! So when this blog entry ran accross my Google Reader account, I was intrigured.  

Edutopia blogger, Diane Darow, searched for and review several iPad apps for learning.  Most were in the format of games (hence remember review games of yester years).   She also applied the revised version of Bloom's taxonomy to the apps.  This week she was looking at apps to help students remember facts.  The lowest level of Bloom's taxonomy.

I read the review of each of the apps, and thought they all sound fun and motivating.  I especially like the Rocket Math and MindSnack apps.   I may try a few of these out for myself!
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Works Cited

Darwo. D, K-5 iPad Apps for Remembering: Part One of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Edutopia, Retrieved August 11, 2011 from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipad-apps-elementary-blooms-taxomony-diane-darrow?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader