Match the Memory
Number/Counting Game
According
to Horton (2012), he relates Do activities as the verbs of learning. He believed that these types of activities
put people in action. They elevate
learning from passive reading and watching to active seeking, selecting, and
creating knowledge. There are three types of Do activities that exercise
learning: Practice, discovery, games and
simulations (p129). Drill/practice
activities are used to increase a students’ knowledge in a new learned skill or
to reinforce a skill that have been taught. In these exercises, it would meet
all of the learners needs: Kinesthetic, visual and auditory learning style.
Horton (2012) describes
a recurring three step sequence of practice activities:
1. Teacher
or the computer assigns a task for the learner to perform
2. The
learner performs the task
3. The
teacher or the computer evaluates the learner’s performance and provide
feedback.1(p. 131).
Horton (2012) stated that games serve
two purposes: to provide practice of a skill or to provoke discovery of
knowledge. He also stated that you must
make learning to play the game easy and quick.
To learn from a game, learners must first learn how to play the
game. Therefore the games should be
based on just a few, simple rules, use a familiar model, and keep the same type
of game throughout the course (p158).
After a lot of time spent researching
and reviewing the different games on YouTube on creating do-activities, I
decide to create a do activity that would be interest and fun for the
students. I would be creating a memory
match game related to numbers and counting. Based on the age of my students I would use
pictures, because a lot of student doesn’t identify words. I also based this on the need assessment. Using memory games of any type would also
give the students the opportunity to practice on focusing and their
concentration skills. A memory game is
also a way of introducing great fun and it would also promote early math
concepts. They also learn to take turns
and experience winning and losing in a supportive setting. I hope in
creating this online memory game it would provide these students with an
engaging and fun activity to help with their focusing and concentration skills
as they are also learning the recognition of numbers.
Here
is the link to the memory game I created through the site, Match the Memory:
I would be using the do-activity on a touch
screen computer. I would introduce the
game to the student in groups of three or four.
We would go step by step on what to do.
After several plays, the children would be encouraged to play in pairs. They
may try as many times as they chose too, because the pictures would be rotated
around after each game.
Match games help kids
with comprehension, concentration and strategic skills. One game may involve
matching like items that share a relationship, while another may involve
relying on memory to match like cards (Radenhausen).
To
make sure the children are understanding and recognizing the numbers, I would
include a you tube or video on numbers: Number rock http://youtu.be/v4sWyckBaOM or Ten in the Bed: http://youtu.be/WqF0ev8UOB4.
Reference:
} Gibby,
C (2012) How-To Video: Make a Match The Memory game in 5 minutes. Retrieved on
November 1st from: http://youtu.be/XwNAX26J_oQ
} Horton,
W. (2012) E-Learning by Design. Second Edition, San Francisco, CA:
Pfeiffer/Wiley
} Radenhausen, J (nd) Match
Games for Kids | eHow.com Retrieved November 2nd
from: http://www.ehow.com/way_5602557_match-games-kids.html#ixzz2BO7nUzSH
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