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Friday, 22 February 2013

Graceful interface scaffolding - Learning from Letter School

Posted on 02:19 by Unknown




Letter School, an app by Dutch game maker, Boreaal, is one of the several apps on the market created to leverage touch-screen advantages for supporting preschoolers in learning to make letter shapes.  Like the others, kids use their finger to trace and write letters of the alphabet.  



The animations and sounds in Letter School are delightful, but what I found especially notable was the
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