Children's Technology Review

Race With Ryan

$40, Windows, PlayStation 4, Wii, Xbox One

Teaches: racing, social, fine motor

Califone GH131 Surround Sound 3D Effects Headset

$55.99, iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Windows, Mac OSX, Chrome, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Teaches: a headset with earphones and microphone

Train Kit

$2.99, iPad, Xbox One

Teaches: creativity, spatial relations, logic

CTR Rating: 98%

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

$60, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Windows

Teaches: logic, spatial relations

Disney Infinity 3.0: Star Wars Rise Against The Empire Play Set

$35, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Teaches: logic, timing, Star Wars

Disney Infinity 2.0 Spider-Man

$30, Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Xbox 360, Mac OSX

Teaches: logic, creativity, collaborative play

Disney Infinity 2.0 Marvel Super Heroes

$75, Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Xbox 360, Mac OSX

Teaches: logic, creativity, collaborative play

Disney Infinity Rapunzel

$13, Windows, Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Teaches: logic, creativity, collaborative play

Just Dance Kids 2014

Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360

Teaches: gross motor movement, lower body coordination, dancing

Smurfs 2, The

$40, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo DS

Kaplan Inspire-NG Move

$500, Xbox 360, Xbox Kinect, Windows

Teaches: early learning

Disney Infinity

$75, Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360

Teaches: logic, creativity, collaborative play

CTR Rating: 92%

Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV

$30, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: reading, science

CTR Rating: 82%

Nickelodeon Dance 2

Xbox Kinect, Wii

Teaches: dancing, gross motor coordination

Just Dance Disney Party

$30, Xbox 360, Wii

Teaches: gross motor coordination, movement, rhythm

Just Dance Kids 2

$30, Wii, Xbox Kinect, PlayStation Move

Teaches: dance, rhythm, exercise

CTR Rating: 88%

Kinectimals Now with Bears

$50, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: movement, physical coordination, gross motor movement, lower body movement, following directions

CTR Rating: 82%

Project Columbia

Xbox Kinect

Teaches: reading

Kinect Sesame Street TV

$30, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: early learning, counting, reading, movement, gross motor coordination

CTR Rating: 82%

Nickelodeon Dance

$40, Xbox Kinect, Wii

Teaches: dancing, gross motor coordination

CTR Rating: 30%

Sims 3 Pets, The

$40, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: creativity

Kinect Disneyland Adventures

$50, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: gross motor coordination, rhythm, Disney

CTR Rating: 96%

Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster

$50, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: classification, large motor coordination, collaborative play, socialization

CTR Rating: 92%

Cars 2: The Video Game

$50, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Windows, Mac

Teaches: racing, logic, timing

CTR Rating: 92.5%

MotionSports: Play for Real

$50, Kinect, Xbox 360

Teaches: Sports, gross motor development, skiing, boxing, soccer, horseback riding and hang gliding

CTR Rating: 94%

Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do

$40, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: gross motor coordination, logic, art, music

CTR Rating: 90%

Kinectimals

$50, Kinect, Xbox 360

Teaches: movement, physical coordination, gross motor movement, lower body movement, following directions

CTR Rating: 94%

Kinect for Xbox 360

$150300, Xbox 360

Teaches: motion based gaming

Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers

$30, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS

Teaches: Baseball

CTR Rating: 84%

Backyard Football '10

$30, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2

Teaches: sports, football

Microsoft Natal (Working Title)

Xbox 360, Xbox Kinect

Teaches: a motion-based interface

Up!

$30, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360, iPhone

Teaches: cooperation, logic, problem solving

CTR Rating: 95%

Disney/Pixar Cars: Mater-National Championship

$50, PlayStation 3*, PlayStation 2*, Nintendo DS*, Wii, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Mac OSX, Windows

Teaches: hand-eye coordination, spatial relations, some creativity

CTR Rating: 90%

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

$50, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS

Teaches: logic, problem solving, spatial relations, cooperative learning

CTR Rating: 96%

LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (Nintendo DS)

$35, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Xbox, GameCube, Windows XP, Nintendo DS, PSP, Game Boy Advance

Teaches: social collaboration, logic, problem solving, creativity

LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (GBA)

$30, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Xbox, GameCube, Windows XP, Nintendo DS, PSP, Game Boy Advance

Teaches: logic, problem solving, spatial relations

CTR Rating: 90%

LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (Console version)

$40, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Xbox, GameCube, Windows XP, Nintendo DS, PSP, Game Boy Advance

Teaches: social collaboration, logic, problem solving

CTR Rating: 92%

Viva Pi�ata

$50, Xbox 360, Windows

Teaches: creativity

CTR Rating: 80%

Curious George

$39.99, Windows XP (DVD), PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance

Teaches: no formal learning value

CTR Rating: 37.5%

Scooby-Doo: Unmasked

$29.99, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA and DS*

Teaches: logic, deductive reasoning, sorting

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

$39.99, PS2, Xbox, GameCube

Teaches: Logic/Puzzle-solving

SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, PANTS!

$39.993, PS2, Xbox*, GameCube, GBA*, PC*

Teaches: social play, classification

Madagascar

$39.99, PS2, XBox, GameCube, Win XP

Teaches: problem solving, sorting, spatial thinking, rhythm (no formal learning)

LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game

$4030, Win XP, PlayStation 2, Xbox

Teaches: cooperative play

CTR Rating: 94%

Air Flo Controller by Nyko

$25, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox

Teaches: a game controller

Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem

$49.99, Xbox , Playstation 2, Gamecube

Teaches: logic

Xbox Controller S

$39.95, Xbox

Teaches: NA