Feed Maxi!
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This is a sluggish multiple-choice speech and language drill that deals specifically with food-related vocabulary. It includes record keeping, the ability to pre-select food categories, and five individual student profiles. Content covers 80 food items. Features include the ability to toggle on/off text, sound effects & statistics and the ability to select specific food items. Here's how it works. Children "feed" Maxi, a hungry monkey who has the ability to sign using American Sign Language (ASL). At the "hard" setting (three food items), children see three food items and one target item. They hear the phrase "give me pear" and see the request signed in ASL. Responses are rewarded with a silly routine that can't be interrupted, and that has no relation to the meaning of the word. In addition, you can't repeat the request. And finally, this is the kind of technology experience that makes you wonder why any child's education should be relegated to this type of activity. Perhaps as an assessment, but it seems as if you'd probably know a child well enough to know if they have this level of vocabulary. We'll leave these questions to the philosophers.
$2.99, iPad
Teaches: language, reading, sign language (ASL), food vocabulary, testing
CTR Rating: 68%