I listened to this podcast by Wesley A. Fryer with Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast to figure out what games or apps 12 years enjoy. He started out by describing an app called InstaPaper that sounds really interesting and beneficial to all students. It is an app that allows you to download offline the copies of books, chapters, and newspaper articles that you may be studying. He said he spend the most of his time on the this app in particular, about 6 hours a day! He said it is FREE or there is a Pro version that you can buy. It sounds really interesting to me and I would like to look into it as an educator and as a student. It would be really neat to be able to read or do research offline or somewhere internet is not accessible. He also talked about a number of games that I believe most 12 year old boys would enjoy that have them shooting aliens or killing monsters. One app that he mentioned was called Civilization Revolution and it sounded really interesting and fun. It is a game that allows you to choose the civilization that you would like to be in like the Aztec, Greek, US, China, etc. From the beginning you have to start a civilization and build a community. You have to find ways to survive and invent numerous things. It allows you to destroy other villages as well. You pick how fast you want time to go by and it is FREE with a Pro version available. I chose to talk about only two of the many games he discussed because I thought they could be most beneficial to students or teachers.
It is important for future educators like myself to know what is popular in technology and figure out how you could incorporate it into the instruction in your classroom. It is vitally important that it be educational. For example, everybody knows that game Angry Birds and that it is really popular with children and adults for that matter but it teaches nothing educational. Exploring your options is very important and that is why I chose this podcast. It is around the age I would like to teach so I wanted to know what was popular with students of this age.
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