Curriculum Associates
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Forget it, i-Ready should be Exterminated and brutally tortured
A while back (like a day ago) I made a review named "i-Ready Should be Erased from the History of Man." After finishing the diagnostic, I checked back and i-Ready has just become total crap. It appears that Curriculum Associates (creators of i-Ready) tried to make it as cheap as possible to maximize on profits. Here's everything that's wrong with the online program.
POOR QUALITY: LESSON DESIGN
Pretty much any school, no matter the size or funding, has this shady program. They are really convinced at how this improves students. However, most teachers and parents never get to see what life is for the students. From a teacher's perspective, the advanced tools and options actually make it appear that it on high budget. However, what they don't see is stupid. It is the definition of cheap and makes kids feel like zoo animals in a metal cage.
The drawings look like they used one of those free animation programs or even paint. The characters are poorly animated and most of the time they just talk or move their mouths. And the fact they failed on such a simple task is embarrassing. After all, practically every school pays for it. Yes, it is a paid service, like dozens per class. You can tell from the photo the terrible state of the art. There are clearly two layers, one of which is the non-animated background that is in a different style than the characters themselves (what?) The other layer houses the characters. In this case, it is Jake and Pepper Jackie (Sweet T is missing.)
And what? What kinds of names are Pepper Jackie and Sweet T? They are attempting to be cool, but learning is serious and should be taught that way, while being engaging (many ways to do it.) That's hard, and that explains why it's so hard to be a teacher (increase their salaries!) But clearly some badly drawn Jake cannot skilled enough. The quality of their lessons and voice acting that isn't fluent with the animations makes portrays learning as a freaking joke.
DIAGNOSTIC: POOR DESIGN
They made the diagnostic more minimalistic, more fresh and modern. But that's just deceiving, because a fresh look makes it seem much has changed. But not much has, and what has is for the worse.
They have this thing in which you click buttons to see a short video on how something on the text functions. But it's SO STUPID. It's like "how do you change a tab" or "How do you play a video." However, you'll expect kids on computers to have at least used google once. Right? And the worst part is you can't skip it. It is monotonous and wastes time. Many high grades 7-12 have done the diagnostic many times. Even if you do it twice, thrice, or ten times, you still have to click these buttons that review information that even a moron would understand. And since schools aren't just going to buy laptops to use them only three time through the entire year, it would be logical that they have other experiences with them that would foster the ability to use a freaking web browser. I mean, every kid has a phone these days. It's so bad I had to devote an entire paragraph to the issue.
Plus, they have this *** *** thing called brain break. It does the opposite of that though, it is infuriating. The resolution is low and grainy and G.O's waist disappears in one scene. The balloon and the brain are badly drawn, and little and laggy animations. It wastes time, and if you're in a hurry, well to bad. No skipping allowed. I'm sure they just chose breathing because the people behind i-Ready are so lazy they can't even use google. Because when people think of relaxing, everyone thinks of breathing. It is ineffective and most people just do something else. The break also makes wild assumptions like every quarter of the quiz your brain mysteriously shut down.
The last thing mainly applies to the reading section. Literally every time the questions and the stories stay the same. There's always some invisible dude, some sleigh for some idiot, picking fruits, washing them, some speeches, Pluto is sad because it got fired from planet fitness, and why Americans are retards for supporting bottled water. The questions don't change, and basically you just know the answers and what the story is about. And that disrupts i-Ready's perfect system, well as advertised. Oh, and let's talk about THAT too! Well before one last diagnostic issue.
The progress bar, an important design element, was not updated. Now it has a deformity bug that makes i-Ready's programmers seem inept.
ADVERTISING
I'm stopping here. I'm planning to continue LATER.
- Tricking entire schools
Preferred solution: Price reduction
I READY IS TRASH AND AUTISTIC
i ready is a waste of time cause kids could be doing other things that challange their brain more that i ready. Also the characters seem dumb cause they are teaching me stuff i already know.
And im doing lessons that i did last year AND those lessons were at a lower grade level. Iam a level G, and it is giving me lessons that were ment for people on level F.
MAIN POINT:i ready is autistic. i ready suks i h8 it its a waste of time its trash i ready will be the end of the world SERVE JUSTICE TO THE KIDS CAUSE THEY NEED IT blah blah blah
- I ready
I-Ready, money being burned for nothing
- How one day i-ready will one day die and run out of money
- How i ready will one day suffer
- Money wasted
- Time wasted
- Waste of space
Horrible must be destroyed
- Takes time in class
- Whole idea in general
Preferred solution: I-Ready gets destroyed
Iready is completely cringe stop forcing us to do torture just watched the vid
- Fact i could dream of the day when i ready is gone
- Fact that i could dream of the day where iready is gone
- Fact that i could dream of the day iready is gone forever
- Quality
- Not scaling to your grade level
- Grading system
Preferred solution: Making better animations have better voice actors stop trying to be cool stop making weird problems stop their website basically
*** HORRIBLE AND TRASH
- Tricking entire schools
- Anythig about it
Preferred solution: Delete I-Ready FOREVER!!!
I ready is trash and gay
- Fact that i could dream of the day where iready is gone
- Everything about i ready
*** it
*** gay as all *** deadass iready, the most relevant basic *** of the 21st *** century.
- How one day i-ready will one day die and run out of money
- Fact i can kill iready creator legally because fuccque iready
- Fact that i could dream of the day iready is gone forever
- Iready gay
- Fuck iready
- Iready is nazi youth recruitment program
Preferred solution: I want Iready to go to *** ***
Iready is completely cringe stop forcing us to do torture just watched the vid
Just... I dont know what to say about this.
Well.
- How unhelpful it is
- Characters
Preferred solution: Shut it down and try again.
You all are so ungrateful
I-ready is so beautiful. You all are just ungrateful for such a wonderful learning program.
I say that all schools should use I-ready. #ireadyforthewin
- Beautiful
User's recommendation: Get this program
It is bad learning for kids
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
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Verified Reviewer | Billerica, MassachusettsThe fact that every review for iready has only one star explains how horrible it is.
Oh boy, where do I begin? How about I point out that there isn't a single good review for iReady in sight?
Nobody likes iReady. Period. That simple. My child has been doing iReady for a couple years now.
When she first started, I thought she was merely complaining, and I forced her to do it. Oh god, I felt so bad. Completely regret my decision. My daughter couldn't even do the lesson.
I was surprised, since she always gets A's in her classes, which I'm very proud of. When I went to her assist her, I saw this horrid website. Crude animation, irritating voice acting, and the fact that they speak so slowly! No wonder my daughter hates it.
I went to the teacher to convince them to not give my daughter iReady, but they insisted that it actually helped them. Do you hear me? HELPED them. Ridiculous.
This doesn't help them at all. The fact that they even tried to include a plot or a story in this is absurd. It just makes it even more confusing. They even tried using slang.
Oh god. I did one of her lessons to try it out, and it was awful. As I mentioned previously, my daughter does very well in her classes. So, this means she has a higher grade in iReady.
You want to know what that means? She has longer lessons. Each one lasts for over an hour. When I call her for dinner, she tells me that she's STILL doing iReady.
What the *** is this? Did the school board really look at this site and go, "Oh, yes, this will definitely help students improve!" Not only that, but ruins interactions between teachers and the outside world. My child is always cramped inside her room, trying to finish her homework, because she has to do it multiple times a week. She barely goes outside at this point.
Additionally, whenever my daughter asks the teacher for help, all they say is, "Let her do another lesson. They explain it in the tutorial." You have to be joking! I feel so sorry for children out there whose parents won't listen to them. I'm so glad that I figured out this entire iReady program was complete {{Redacted}}.
I don't curse much, so this can already tell you how horrible this program is. I'm sure that it'll be a long while until iReady gets removed, or if it ever even will. This generation has gone to {{Redacted}}. Is this how we're going to teach our children from now on?
The world's gonna end up like Idiocracy at this point! I'm confident that the main reason iReady is still here is because they're getting cash. A lot of cash. The people making this program (who don't even put EFFORT into it) are becoming richer by the second, and it's making me disgusted.
God, this ended up a lot longer than I thought. Just displays my anger even more.
- Fact that i could dream of the day where iready is gone
Preferred solution: Get rid of it. Right now.
I-Ready is a perfect program for teachers and students alike.
I-Ready is beautiful with amazing animation and wonderful voice acting. My students love this program and ask to use it on a daily basis. For anyone out there who wants a fun, educational, program that will help students learn, I-Ready is the program for you.
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I READY IS USELESS AND A WASTE OF TIME p.s. the dumb iready deleted all my progress
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100 percent true iready needs to be banned and murdered
too true
iready is total dog crap i agree with you sooo much
So true
I can't agree with you any stronger, and yes, believe me we ALL feel like animals in a cage when working on this disgrace of a website.
Note: This is rushed and there are some grammartical errors.