ConversationBuilderTeen 12+
Virtual Conversation Simulator
Mobile Education Store LLC
Designed for iPad
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- $29.99
iPad Screenshots
Description
Winner - Best Middle School App of 2012 - Best App Ever
Winner - 2012 Best Teaching App by TeachHub.com
Winner - 2012 4th Best Speech Therapy App by Let's Talk SLP
Winner - 2012 Best Social Skills App by Tech in Special Ed
Winner - 2012 Best Special Needs App by Teachers With Apps
Finalist - 2012 Best Special Needs App by SmartAppsForKids
ConversationBuilderTeen is a teen version of the popular and award winning ConversationBuilder virtual conversation simulator. It is designed to help teenaged children learn how to have multi-exchange conversations with their peers in a variety of social settings. The auditory pattern of conversation is presented in a visual format to help students recognize and master the flow of conversation.
Students learn when it is appropriate to introduce themselves, ask questions, make observations and change the subject of the conversation. They will also learn how to recognize sarcasm and how to respond when someone is bullying them or someone around them.
The student will be asked to initiate conversation, respond to conversations initiated by others or participate in group conversations. Students will be guided through conversations and allowed to record and save their conversations for later playback and study. Conversations are grouped into eight themes. The themes are school, relationship, sports, entertainment, bullying, sarcasm, clothes, and summer.
Being able to converse with peers is the cornerstone of developing relationships, and ConversationBuilderTeen™ promotes development of this skill in a fun and engaging way.
Features
- Over 300 conversations
- 8 conversation themes - School, Relationship, Sports, Entertainment, Bullying, Sarcasm, Clothes, and Summer
- Visual interface to learn the pattern of conversation
- Students record their half of the conversation
- Group and one-on-one conversation settings
- Student may import photos into the group conversations
- Student can initiate or respond to conversations
- Student recordings are interlaced with pre-recorded audio to create complete conversations
- Real time history allows student to replay every segment of a conversation
- Conversations may be archived and emailed
- Parental controls to lock out some conversations
LANGUAGES
- English
REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with iPad
- Requires 5.1 software update
ConversationBuilderTeen is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012.
Mobile Education Tools is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 10-17
Categories: Special Needs
What’s New
Version 2.0.0
Updates for iOS16 compatibility
Ratings and Reviews
Great app
This is a great app to help with conversation building. I really like how you can have more than one user. That is a plus for those with multiple children. It is very helpful how if you get it wrong, it tells you why (like...it's not time for a statement about yourself at this time). This really helps teach the order of a conversation. It's also great that you record yourself saying your answer so you can hear yourself having the conversation. One thing I didn't like is that some of the wrong answers are inappropriate sentences. I realize they aren't the correct answers so you aren't trying to say the kids should say these things but, they also shouldn't be reading them and having to decide not to use them. All in all good app.
For older and mature teens
I want to start by saying this is a wonderful app for helping a teen with social situations and proper conversations. Throw in some moral lessons as well. A+. I originally got this to use with my 13 yo but she is not quite mature enough for many of the conversations, even with the parental controls. This will be an app for in a couple of years for sure. The parental controls are great and a big plus for me. One of the things that I thought was a nice touch was that you or your teen could record their own responses in the conversation and then play back the whole conversation at the end, so you can hear the whole flow. You can set it up for more than 1 person to track and you can track progress as well. As an adult I even got something out of the app in helping me to be more aware of conversations that I have with others. Nice! Highly recommended! But I do recommend you got through some of the conversations before a young teen does.
Love it
I think this one is better than the original in the overall setup. Some of the features of this app that are really neat are the history button which displays the conversation like you see on the iPhone messages, the info button which tells you what each conv. is about, explanations as to why certain responses don't work and the ability to have each choice read to you by an appropriate voice. Some topics should be viewed with caution as they may be inappropriate for some kids. I skipped the conversations about drugs, but I think they are still important topics that can be addressed with the consent of a parent or by a parent. If you have concerns with particular conversation topics then I suggest emailing the developer. He works really hard on these apps and he would probably appreciate appropriate critical feedback. Overall, I really enjoyed using this app as well as the original.
App Privacy
The developer, Mobile Education Store LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Mobile Education Store LLC
- Size
- 387.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © Mobile Education Store 2020. All rights reserved
- Price
- $29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.