No, that´s not Haiti, it´s Canada

One of the things I´ve realized over the past few weeks is that I really need some simple, educational computer programs for the students to use. I wanted some things that could be used by students that couldn´t read very well, and would be somewhat fun for them and keep their interest so I wouldn´t find them searching for internet games every time I turned my back. Last week, I found a couple good ones that are free and downloadable--just what I was looking for. One has simple games like memory, hangman, and simple math. That seems to be vey popular so far. The other one is geography based, and requires the students to find the correct country, city, continent, etc. on a map. Watching a few of them do the geography games was just another example of how poor the level of education here is. I usually started them with the game that had them identify countries of North and Central America. I figured this would be the easiest one for them. Most kids, however, could only, at best, identify The Dominican Republic and Haiti. Some, could not even accomplish that much, which is what my title alludes to. That was an actual comment I made today. There´s a lot of room for improvement, I guess.