Kids stuck virtual learning? The "Adoraboos" app teaches test prep, computer literacy, math, and more with games and unlockables.
Adoraboos is a multi-level interactive educational gaming app for iOS and Google Play developed by California-based app dev studio MyDream Interactive. The game is meant to be supplemental for at-home learning at a time when students across the nation are doing their best to adapt to online schooling.
Adoraboos is free to play, and offers a selection of mini-games across an "an ever growing collection of learning modules" to encourage gamer-students of all ages to "learn through play and repetition," the website reads.
Allison Huynh, the founder and CEO of My Dream Interactive, described the project's goal:
"As a mother and entrepreneur, I've dedicated much of my work to providing educational gaming tools for kids, and I'm truly excited to introduce The Adoraboos – a fun, creative learning tool that can help address the current education crisis as many students prepare to stay home instead of going back to their school's campus."
You can check out a trailer here:
How It Works
Players recieve a cuddly little monster called an Adoraboo to chaperone them through the app. Upon completion of mini-games like Word Dragger and Decipher, players participate in an Adorabattle. The victorious Adoraboo gets a chance to win fun cosmetics, like hats and clothes.
An Adoraboo, image courtesy theadoraboos.com.
The subjects currently offered to students include:
- SAT Prep
- SSAT/ISEE Prep
- Kid's Vocab
- Networking
- Computers
- Cybersecurity
- Mathematics
- Sustainability
- Blockchain
- Social Emotional Learning
Some of these topics, you'll notice, are pretty modern. Blockchain, for instance, is vital to understanding cryptocurrency like bitcoin, which interested analysts talk unceasingly about as a disruptive technology for the future. The Adoraboos website describes Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, as "a method of promoting holistic child development by teaching students skills such as self-regulation, persistence, empathy, self-awareness, and mindfulness."
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