Hello Classmates and Instructor! This weeks’ research into games, the video game model and creating a game with BrainRush was a lot of fun and offered an immense amount of information and learning. I was pleasantly surprised to find the philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori deeply ingrained into the conversation about the video game model and its benefits. The elements and implementation was quite natural and easy for me to envision within a learning environment. I chose to present a sorting game based on phonics and the challenges I see my young readers facing each day with discrimination and solid symbol to sound associations. The letters /b/, /d/, /p/ and /q/ look very similar and the variation of what they represent is determined by the orientation of the symbol in relation to the other letters in the structure of writing words. Writing is a strong foundation for reading and in my experiences, it precedes reading. For the young child to endeavor to express their own ideas using the symbols of sound to create the written language is relevant personally to the child and the motivation comes from within, the desire to express themselves, share what they are thinking and what they know. In the Montessori environment, even before the child has mastery with a pencil for producing the letters on paper, there is a moveable alphabet that allows the child to place formed letters together to form sounds, into words, into sentences, into ideas and stories. The four letters above often get chosen from their boxes and flipped or turned to meet the need or used interchangeably early on. Refinements I would make to my game would be to add the ability to click on the sound bucket and produce the sound of the letter it represents. I would also include the ability to click on the picture and have it named, with the first sound emphasized, such as “Penguin, /p/, /p/, Penguin”. Just a quick note, I was unable to find a way to give credit for the images I used, however I did endeavor to use pictures from the public domain, I believe I accomplished that goal. However, I would like to share the images and their sources here as well. BrainRush Sound Buckets Game
Address: http://www.brainrush.com/lesson/sound-buckets Images: All images except those noted below are from: http://pngimg.com/img/insects/bug Dress:https://clipartfest.com/categories/view/cf7425c1dabd5ab19dbe168af0f25f3ce38e9ca0/dress-clipart-png.html Quarter: http://www.clipartkid.com/quarter-dollar-cliparts/ Quilt: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/crib-quilts/ Queen: http://tumundografico.com/clipart/queen-clipart.html Quail: http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-quail/ Q-tip: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/05/05/medical-minute-cleaning-ears-with-cotton-swab/ Bucket: http://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/read.php?6,3659888
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