Happy App Friday!
Learn about shapes and colours with Highlights Shapes, then learn early reading skills with Teach Your Monster to Read. Plus, California introduces new privacy rules for digital services, and the ‘Baby Shark’ song goes viral.
Garry Froehlich
Jellybean Tunes
Highlights Shapes
by Highlights for Children, Inc.
Highlights Shapes follows a fox in a flying saucer through several worlds that double as elaborate shape sorters. Toddlers move shapes into designated areas and if the shape fits, the color and name of the shape are spoken. Shapes can be rotated or in different sizes to help reinforce the concepts. Plus, the app goes beyond the traditional shape sorter by combining shapes into other shapes, or into more complex objects. The app includes one world for free, and several more that require an in-app purchase.
Teach Your Monster to Read
by Teach Monster Games Ltd
Teach Your Monster to Read covers the first two years of learning to read, from matching letters and sounds to enjoying little books. Children create a monster and take it on a magical journey over three extensive games (First Steps, Fun With Words and Champion Reader) meeting a host of colorful characters along the way and improving their reading skills as they progress. The game is rigorous and works with any phonics scheme, suitable for use at school and at home.
Golden State GDPR: California’s New Privacy Rules
California has introduced new privacy regulations.
“The law provides consumers with more robust rights, including the right to: obtain a copy of their personal information; know whether, and to whom, their personal information is sold or disclosed; opt out of the sale of their personal information; access and request deletion of their personal information; and not be subject to discrimination (either in service or price) for exercising their rights under CCPA.”
There’s quite a bit more information in the article, which is worth reading if you make or use educational apps and services. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-09-21-golden-state-gdpr-what-the-edtech-industry-should-know-about-ca-s-new-privacy-rules
The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral
“The catchy children’s song has gone explosively viral, saturating the Internet and the neural circuitry of toddlers the world over. It’s the latest pop-culture trend to captivate a young audience — perhaps the youngest ever — fueled by animated, K-pop-style YouTube music videos that have racked up more than 3 billion views.“
This one made the rounds of my son’s school too. I had no idea it was so popular.
