Alice is a software that enables students and teachers (and anyone else) to make games. In theory, this is a great concept. Teachers could use this to assess whether students are learning by requiring them to make games.
However, Alice, was extremely difficult to use. Even after consulting tutorials and instructions online, there were many functions we could not perform (such as making characters walk). I got very frustrated and, in the end, I was not able to make the game I wanted to. I would feel uncomfortable making my students use this tool to reflect and reinforce the material we learned in class. The software is too complicated and too time-consuming for my elementary students to use effectively. And as a teacher I do not feel that I could use this tool well because of the time it would take to make a simple, thirty second story. It would be easier to find another method to teach material, in my opinion.
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