BiblioTech™ Adaptive Reader vs AzTech

Help Maya get to CityHacks! CityHacks is finally here, the big coding club for people interested in making games and apps. The club meets on Thursdays and Fridays every week from 8pm to midnight. This is a fantastic opportunity for Maya and her big brother, the only snag is that their mom is concerned about the amount of sleep her kids would lose by joining the club. Help Maya convince her Mom to let her go to CityHacks by taking notes that support her argument. Present these notes to Maya’s mom at the end of the story to see if Maya gets to go to CityHacks. CityHacks: In Search of Sleep is the first in the BiblioTech™ series and is designed to be a complementing interactive reader to the STEM concepts in the Emmy® Award winning public television show Scientastic! Are you sleeping, Dormez vous?, produced by the same team. What is BiblioTech™? BiblioTech™ is a platform for enjoying engaging learning experiences through reading and interactive materials. Learn important factual content, like the science behind why getting enough sleep is so important. And you get to do this while you build your own branching story. Each chapter features a decision point where the reader decides where to go next, which creates 100s of variations on the flow of the story. While reading the story, you’ll be able to take notes in your notebook. Images, illustrations, definitions, and key terms and concepts can be collected in your digital notebook. Interactive items contain games, video interviews, and activities that can give you more notes that you can add to your notebook. By taking notes, you will be able to influence the storyline and help the main character complete her quest. Features include: Unique and Interactive Experiences -Choose how the story unfolds as you read -Play fun games and puzzles -Watch video interviews with real life experts -Interact with colorful charts and graphs Easy-to-use Reading and Note Taking Tools -Turn pages with a swipe -Easy navigation inside the book -Take notes while you read -Tap highlighted words for instant definitions -Automatically save your progress as you read Privacy Policy: http://dynamoid.com/privacy/Bibliotech+Adaptive+Reader

AzTech: The Story Begins – the beginning of a better way to learn. Part interactive graphic novel, part video game, this is kind of educational app you’ve been waiting for. The AzTech series teaches math, social studies, language arts and a second language. In AzTech: The Story Begins, players join Xitali and José, two teens from Iowa, as they try to make it to school, make it through history class and find themselves on a very unexpected adventure. This first free game introduces you to what lies ahead in the AzTech Games series. AzTech: The Story Begins teaches multi-step problem solving (including adding and subtracting fractions, averages and more) and more is backed by data that shows kids who played 7 Generation Games improved their math scores 30%. Build your vocabulary and learn world history terms. Using 7 Generation Games’ unique and innovative bilingual capabilities, players can play the game in English or make it a bilingual (English/Spanish) experience with the ability change the language – audio, video and text – on any page. Recommended for Grades 5 through 8. Math concepts covered: -Adding and subtracting fractions -Distance/speed -Averages Social studies concepts covered: -World history terms Fully bilingual – English/Spanish. Combining artificial intelligence with educational research modeled after effective teachers, we make better educational games. Educational elements are integrated within the storyline. Problems don’t just fall from the sky, but are in context within the game – giving real-life examples of when knowledge/skills would be used. Getting answers wrong doesn’t just lead to more problems, but we teach the information and skills kids need to solve problems within the app. 7 Generation Games are developed by a team including a former math teacher, a statistician with a Ph.D. whose dissertation was on standardized testing, a rocket scientist (he’ll say, “I’m not a rocket scientist, just a physicist that did the radar for rockets!”) and a N.Y. Times best- selling writer. They’re build with classroom teachers and tested in school across the country.