Teach Your Monster
This blog entry is about a tool in Dr. Wang's PPT about previous T3PP results. Specifically Teach Your Monster in the 30/118 software technology list. I was particularly interested in this tool because I have never heard of it before, and the name alone told me it would probably be very engaging for students. This tool could connect to event 3, 5, AND 7 of our 7 Events Framework.
I signed up for a free teacher account, and it prompted me to either create a group or a player. To create a group you enter a name for your group, students names, and then you either choose password cards to give to players, or parent letters can be sent directly to the parents. These password cards/letters provide a randomized password for each student, along with the classcode for them to join your group.
After creating a student, I logged into their account to see the student view. It begins by allowing the student to customize their monster, which I think is really fun and helps to engage the student. Immediately after decorating your monster the website tells a story and your monster goes on different quests with educational content mixed in. Another option I really liked is that you get to choose your own prize for competing the quests. I was shown 3 different hats/body styles and colors to customize my monster, and I only got them if I completed the quest. This is a great way to engage students.
It seems like this tool has a lot of versatility. Your students can study reading components, math, or nutritional information. However, from the small quest that I did, I think it is definitely more geared for kindergarten/first grade students. My quest was all about phonics, and I'm not sure if on the teacher side of things you can assign more complex quests for students of older grades, I will have to look into that further.
And finally, I think the overall likelihood of using this tool in my classroom is high if I were teaching lower grade levels. It is such a fun website that would make students want to learn!
Oh I did one on teach your monster as well. This one was a lot better than mine. I agree that while it is great for the younger grades the older the kids get the less it is worth as they have masted things on there own.
ReplyDeleteHey Carly, great blog! It was very informative and well written. It seems like a very fun and exciting tool to use to have students engaged in the classroom.
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ReplyDeleteGreat post! Teach Your Monster seems like it would be a great tool to use in the earlier grades and it seems like it would be very engaging for students. I think I would be likely to use this tool although I do not think I would use it regularly.
Hi Carly,
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of Teach Your Monster! It seems like a great tool for the younger kiddos. I'm excited to look more into it so I can use it in my future classroom! Great post!
Hey Carly,
ReplyDeleteI have not heard of teach your monster but it looks to be not only an amazing tool that teaches the students while also keeping them engaged but also looks to be very fun visually, I enjoyed how you related the content to the 7-event framework and gave proper reason to why they connect.
Hi Carly! I Teach your monster seems like a lot of fun! I think kids would really enjoy using this tool!
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