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Monday, March 15, 2010

EVALUATION OF PBSKIDS.ORG EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE “CURIOUS GEORGE”

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This software is the complimentary site to the television series. Curious George is an Educational Tool that fosters learning and exploration in children through science, engineering, and math in the world round them. With it’s multi dimensional construct, Curious George caters for children ages 4 and 5.

The site uses various characters as to capture the interest of the audience and engage them in forms of independent play activities. This builds on their social skills and metal cognition. The divisions in the program are activated by use of action buttons and flash plug-ins which permits free downloadable activities. Each subsection allows a different activity and the audio feature attached, characterizes the software as a multiple intelligence caterer.

This Curious George software activities, adheres to the targeted age group in terms of visual imagery (brightly colored and attractive displays of animals etc.) navigation and language style. Likewise the site allows the option to the adult population to be enlightened about the software and it also provides links to alternative and complimentary activities to explore.

It can therefore be concluded that this software is age appropriate and functional in it’s entity for it challenges and maintains the balance of equilibrium in children as it creates the right amounts of stimulation.

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