Research: Existing Teaching Apps

• Futaba
• Animoto
• Draw and Tell
• Duolingo
• Kahoot!
• Twinkl
• Bee-bot
• Top Marks - Hit the Button
• Classroom
• Class Dojo
• Elastic Alphabets
• Scratch

Bee-Bot

• Has physical objects to go along side the website and app, therefore children can learn in real life. 
• Using technology together with objects.
• Can practice on the computer and then test out what they've learned in real life.
• Controlling a real life object by apps/technology.
• Designing mats/command cards to use in real life as well, things to touch and hold physically. 

Twinkl - Phonics Apps

• Letter formations, spelling, sounds and names.
• Listen and speak into a microphone/character similar to bee-bot.
• A range of cards/mats for spelling and phonics.
• Cards for each letters.
• Objects for each letters.
• Characters.
• Physical characters, letters, scenes and themes.
• Missing interacting with other people.
• Create it a multiplayer game somehow. 
• Listen to each other.
• Gold coin - drag to treasure chest if it's a real word/ drag to dustbin if not. This can be made in real life. 
• Letter cards, characters, coins/tokens, treasure chest, dustbin.
• In what context can or when does this be used in the real world - When speaking to people, playing, writing, reading. 
• Different stages.

Scratch

• Making games in real life rather than just online.
• Creating games that can be played in the classroom and outdoors, with friends.
• Randomiser cards.
• Different objects, animals, number of people.
• Creates imaginative games. 

• Practicing maths in real life, real world situation.
• Money and time.
• Different tasks to do out and about.
• Shopping, budgeting, different clocks.
• Documentation of activities. 

• Use bright colours.
• Unrealistic places/situations.
• Most are played outside in virtual worlds.
• Beaches, animals, outside world but in a virtual world. 
• Characters and animals playing the game and instructions. 
• How to go outside in real life and play similar games.
• Using realistic situations or being imaginative in real life. 
• No people within the games, just cartoon characters.
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