Game developers are smart to be using legacy franchises to bring games into the touch computing era. The company that owns the rights called The Learning Company also owns the rights to The Oregon Trail, a game that is available for iOS and quite popular. This game seems like an ideal game for iOS devices and I am still surprised it is not there. I had been watching for a while, and still to no avail, the arrival of this game in the iTunes App Store. This game did a great job, in my opinion, of integrating game play with lessons on geography and other facts that was fun and educational. The first one that came to mind, for my wife and I, was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? It does so in a way that makes learning fun and technology at its best should accomplish that goal when it comes to education.īecause of my desire to integrate technology into the learning process and inquisitive nature of my kids, I began thinking of games I appreciated as a kid that did the same. This game teaches her facts about US states as well as how to identify them and place them on a map.

It has been remarkable to see how quickly she can spot a new bird in the wild and quickly use the app to identify the bird and learn interesting facts.Įven more recently in this process she has begun playing a game called Stack the States fairly regularly. My oldest daughter (age 9) and I both have the app on our iDevices, mine on my iPhone and hers on the iPod Touch. My family and I live just outside San Jose in an agricultural / rural part of the area and because of that we see quite a wide variety of birds we never encountered in the city.

One of my favorite examples of how we have done this was with an app called iBird Explorer Western. Being immersed in the technology industry as I am, I naturally add technology as a part of that process. One of the goals we have in my household is to develop and maintain an inquisitive culture and the desire to learn.

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