Cooties+ app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
8048 ratings )
Education
Medical
Developer: Elliot Soloway
Free
Current version: 0.6, last update: 7 years agoFirst release : 11 Nov 2014
App size: 12.45 Mb
To be used in a group setting, this app -- a participatory simulation - helps students learn how infectious diseases are spread.
Initially, the teacher makes one of the devices "sick." Then the following action is repeated: one student "meets" another student by gently touching their iPads; a germ laden or a germ free message is passed between the devices. Eventually all the devices are "sick."
Who was originally sick? Tools to trace down that device are provided.
An online manual can be found at http://www.intergalacticmlc.org