We have just been informed that Duh Color Stuff has been selected as a winner of the Fall 2015 Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award.
BIG EXCITEMENT!!!
This Award, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The independent Academics’ Choice Awards program and its seal of excellence are recognized worldwide by consumers and educational institutions as a mark of genuinely effective learning tools that stimulate the mind, and provide potential for the student to fully develop higher order thinking skills.
The Academics’ Choice Advisory Board consists of leading thinkers and graduates from Princeton, Harvard, George Washington University, and other reputable educational institutions. Product-appropriate volunteer reviewers, combined with the brainpower of the Board, determine the coveted winners. Entries are judged by category (i.e. mobile app, toy, book, website, magazine, etc.), subject area, and grade level, and evaluated based on standardized criteria rooted in constructivist learning theory
Review Highlights:
“This is a powerful app for young readers. The mystery adventure hooks the reader by allowing them to be a part of the plot. Children improve reading comprehension, decision making, investigative skills, analysis of multiple points of view, and much more. The reuse factor is also great due to the multiple pathways and story endings. The storybook also has powerful features such as narration, dialog between team members based on decisions, and interactive mini-games.”
“The digital storybook is engaging, colorful, interactive, and the animations are excellent. The reader get to choose how each story unfolds as they analyze clues and decide the path to take next in a choose your own adventure style book. The reader’s choices affect the story line, which has 21 possible endings. It teaches kids to think critically, analyze and cooperate as a team.”
Read the Full Winner Page by Academics’ Choice
