The iready diagnostic intro is burned into my brain "hi. My name is devon. I'm in the 9th grade. And like you, i had to take the diagnostic. The diagnostic is NOT a typical test.."
Yes! I particularly remember that part of Starfall! I remember it was a game called Who Am I? and it started by having you select boy or girl. I was so obsessed with that game that I started telling people “you push the boy button” or “you push the girl button”
fun fact there was an i-ready rebellion when i was in middle school. we called it “i’m not ready” and had these cards with the i-ready logo and a big x over it. it was peak tbh
omg i remember that i-ready would tell our teachers how fast we did it so we'd have to re-do the ENTIRE test if we went a little too quick. I was always really quick at taking tests, so even if I did do all the work i'd sit there staring at the screen for a full minute before submitting my answer each time
I just got bored and scrolled around on other sites while occasionally going back and doing 3 questions before going back to DeviantArt or WattPad or Scratch.
I hate I-ready with a burning passion because they would make us do it everyday before school ended and I remember the “SUUUHHHH-WEEET” always catching me off guard back then
I was a Starfall kid. I got on it when I was maybe 3 or 4 years old at home. I learned to read basically entirely independently through that. I specifically remember that there was a song about Y called "Y can be a vowel" and because they put red lips on it and gave her a feminine voice I had a CRUSH on the LETTER Y.
@@malcolmcharles9464 oooh yeah Azul! didnt he do a bunch of reading stuff if i remember right? and you'd answer questions off the text? regardless, ik what you mean.
Oh god i-Ready…. I forgot how miserable it was when we were assigned those lessons for homework. They were unnecessarily long, horribly corny and dragged out, and the worst part of all was that they would assess you at the end with 7-10 questions. If you failed…. You had to do the entire 40 minute slogfest alllllllllll over again, and there’s no fast forwarding or anything of the sort. It was the closest thing I could remember being absolute torture as far as homework goes
That's the main thing I hated about I-ready. They lessons were so long and when you failed the quiz at the end you'd need to go through that long lesson all over again
I despised i-Ready. In elementary we had to do 2 reading lessons and 2 math lessons every week on there as homework. It always took like twice as long as it should have because you would put in the answer then you would have to wait for them to stop yapping.
EXACTLY!! AND THE ELA LESSONS DIDNT WVEN LET YOU PUT IN THE ANSWERS BEFORE THEY STOPPED YAPPING THE MATH LESSONS TOOK TOO LONG!! IT TOOK THEM LITERALLY 20 MINUTES TO GET THROUGH SUPPLEMENTARY AND COMPLEMENTARY ANGLES!!!
Yo same, @thedestroyerofcheese! I had to do 2 math and 2 read too, and the math, I couldn’t get done half the time because first, I couldn’t even get in from my tablet, and 2nd, we had so little time.. The reading was quick though, but that’s the only plus. (Also, my comment was deleted for some reason, it didn’t have anything wrong.. It was about how I thought I-ready was decent as a whole.)
Back when I was in elementary I hated it. Luckily I think I only had to start using it at 2nd-3rd grade. Last year, when my brother was in kindergarten he had to do iready?! Let’s be real here I get second graders but iready is WAYYYY too much for them. Back when I was a kindergartner we didn’t even have Chromebooks, we even exceeded to the point where we *technically* published our own book (it was about what our teddy bears do at night 💀) and we didn’t have that shit. Tbh kids shouldn’t use Chromebook’s at that age, in fact, they shouldn’t have internet access at that age. Wait until Johnny googles “p0rn” and happens to get his parents taken away after that.
you don’t understand how angry i was when the iready games were taken away for the stupid balloon breathing. i would try as hard as possible to breathe out of sync with it in an act of rebellion. so glad i don’t have to do it anymore and now i just get to participate in the big scam that is collegeboard(also, in the diagnostics i would ALWAYS get the same excerpts over and over. the invisible man. the gettysburg address. wuthering heights. apparently that didn’t happen to anyone else but it DID TO ME) also raz kids was my FAVORITE thing ever. the reading thing with the spaceship that you could customize. idk if anyone else ever did that though maybe my school was just weird
i'm sitting in my college's library right now, the last time i did i-ready was when i was 12, and hearing that rap song made my chest start hurting. i never experienced starfall but we did have access to abcya, i guess. they had duck life.
Do everyone remember in school that teachers use Brainpop for teaching us some lessons. I do remember that I used to watch Brainpop to teach about the history or science topics.
Sheeattt!!! Starfall got me spooked when I was in school. Like, when I answered a question correctly, a weirdly animated star with a face appears on my computer screen and that shit made me scared for life, man! ⭐️
I remember avoiding the W part of the alphabet section when I was like 3 because the wolf sound effect scared me ua-cam.com/video/iLxKTGaXsWY/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
seeing the iready character in the thumbnail just dug up some middle school memories of having to do iready lessons (i didn't really like i-ready tbh looking back)
I remember drawing a syringe filled with black next to the iready guys, where I then would cover them in black.. Goop stuff I guess and give them evil teeth and eyes. I made mlp infection an stuff before it was cool.
My school uses Bill Nye (for all), Magic school bus (for all), Amoeba Sisters, I-ready (for middleschool and elementary) and sometimes starfall for the elementary. BUT MY SCHOOL DOESNT KNOW THE ORGAN WISE GUYS. THE REST OF THEM ARE STILL USED AT MY SCHOOL (excluding the organ wise guys.) 😭
I want to make a list of some of the media I grew up with: 1. Liberty's Kids: a PBS kids show about the American Revolutionary War with a theme song that has no right to go so hard. 2. Miss Pattycake: an obscure one from my Evangelical childhood in North Alabama. It's about a lady named Miss Pattycake who lives in a magical house where everything comes alive. She guides kids through her house while singing about the Bible. She came to my little church when I was really young and it was like meeting Taylor Swift in the flesh. I think I have an old puppet of her somewhere and some DVDs/VHS tapes. 3. Baby Einstein: I think the idea behind it was that the classical music was supposed to stimulate our brains and make us smarter or something, but I only really cared about the visuals. 4. Leapfrog: I had a few home videos from leapfrog that taught the alphabet, spelling, reading, and basic math. The premise behind most of them was that three frog kids would tour a factory that built letters, words, or numbers. I liked to watch the letter factory one the most but the most helpful one was called Complex Word Complex because, well, it taught more complex concepts like double vowels and compound and complex words. I also had a leapster l-max which was no Nintendo DS but still much better than nothing. I liked that if you didn't insert a cartridge you could play a Scooby Doo game or mess around in an MS paint-like program. 5. Cedarmont Kids: another Evangelical Southern one. They made music video collections and sold them on pretty much every format at the time. I had a few VHS tapes and many DVDs. Some collections were more explicitly religious than others. The one I remember the most fondly is actually the God Bless America one, which has a mix of patriotic songs and regular kid songs. Every DVD also has a bonus collection of one song from every collection at the end. I would get excited for "This is My Commandment" because I recognized the filming location: the Nashville Zoo playground! 6. multiplication.com: self-explanitory, a website with multiplication games. It's still up today but it's gotten a facelift since I used it around 2010. My favorite games were Multiplication Grand Prix, a multiplayer game where you raced other race cars by getting the most multiplication questions right the quickest, Sketch's World, which had you answer a few multiplication questions to play a level of a platformer, and Cone Crazy, where you play as a penguin serving ice cream to other penguins. 7. Brain POP: a website that hosts videos on just about any topic a 9-13 year old would be learning about in school with quizzes. One of my teachers gave the whole class her credentials and I used it to binge watch their videos. It filled a lot of gaps the Alabama public education system left in my schooling, especially in science and social studies. 8. Veggietales: yet another Evangelical one. It's singing vegetables reenacting Bible stories and teaching life lessons. My favorite episodes were mostly based on the most fucked up Bible stories. King George and the Rubber Ducky was based off King David sending Uriah to war in order to hide the fact that David had impregnated his wife. The Veggietales version is actually worse. King George sent a poor child to the front lines of a pie war so that he can steal the kid's rubber ducky, despite having dozens of identical ones already. The kid comes back obviously shell-shocked, but at least the king eventually gives him his duck back. 9. Fizzy's Lunch Lab: a web series from PBS Kids Go that taught kids about nutrition. It had bite-sized full episodes, recipe videos, music videos, and a talk show parody where Professor Fizzy would interview random foods. In the main show, Professor Fizzy runs a restaurant(?) to compete with Fast Food Freddy and his restaurant/theme park Greasy World while teaching two kids about eating right. Some of the advice is outdated, like its recommendation to seek out low-fat foods (fat is an important part of the diet that helps us absorb certain vitamins, but the sugar industry pushed the low-fat craze to get attention off of them and to add more sugar to our food supply), but overall the show really helped me as a kid with ARFID, a condition that wasn't even recognized as a thing back then. ARFID makes it really hard to eat a variety of food, often due to issues with the taste and texture, and the show was kind of like exposure therapy for me. 10. coolmath-games.com: I can't believe this one wasn't in the video. I've spent countless hours playing Run 2, IQ Ball/Tarzan Ball, the Papa games, World's Hardest Game, and so much more. I actually reached the better than Papa rank in Papa's Tacoria as a kid. Prophetically, my first job was as a "food champion" at Taco Bell. I'm sure I could keep going, but this comment is already ridiculously long. I think the fact that many of my picks are specific to my region and time period proves how unique this genre is to everyone. My experience in the gray area between the Deep South and Appalachia in the 2000s/early 2010s is much different than the experience of someone who grew up in Brooklyn in the 90s, or the experience of someone who's growing up in the UK right now. But still, our experiences have commonalities. Of course I remember Bill Nye, and the Magic School Bus, and Crash Course, and even the Amoeba Sisters! It's fun to see what other people also remember, tell them about what you're nostalgic for, and listen their experiences.
24:32 I LOVED Crash Course but it got pretty old after my teacher kept telling us to do stations and Crash Course was ALWAYS apart of it. But there is the perk that John Green used to write romance novels so in middle school once I read The Fault In Our Stars I found that funny.
Thank you for talking about Starfall. I remember being addicted to that website when I was younger and loved the character designs and animations. It's nice to know other people remember that educational experience as well. 🦅
I remember Starfall. From years Kindergarten through 2nd Grade, we would go to our computer lab, and play on it. Man, that website hits hard with nostalgia.
When my middle school introduced I-ready, we thought it was great! But then later on we started to get annoyed by the lessons and never took it seriously. We just did the lessons to get doughnuts XD
I was obsessed with Starfall. I remembered in 2nd grade my best friend and I were walking along and my friend said, “We’ll be in 3rd grade soon so we’ll be too old for Starfall!” I was so distraught…anyway great video!
@@RaysGamingChannel2003Its more forgiving tbh, in my school IXL is heavily utilized and honestly it’s not that bad if you can get over the scoring system and how much of a mess it is. I hated it tbh
As somone who used I-ready alot. It was absolute hell. But i loved how you could hold letter down on numbers only input boxes and holding down more letter keys made the error noise louder
I remember in like 3rd grade my teacher said to me “Hey, let’s not waste our time changing the background on I-Ready” and that traumatized me for like a year bc everybody else was doing it and she said it the day after I had changed it
I remember I-Ready made a vocab game that was introduced by "now you can play games; they're a blast!" followed by a rocket ship blasting off. Another english lesson taught me texting slang, followed by the most stereotypical text according to adults. And don't get me started on the tests. They took so, fucking, long! They even gave you some long ass essays for 3 or so questions. Needless to say, I-Ready made me question why my school even used this program.
I remeber now. The second I saw “starfall” on the screen I could finally remember, like an old memory brought back by a photo album. I remember learning tongue twisters and bragging to my parents about how fast i could say the would chuck one… Im gonna revisit it.
love this video! i’m surprised you didn’t mention brainpop. those videos had such an impact on myself and my classmates in elementary school. a possibly niche education program i remember fondly was flocabulary. i had a history teacher in middle school who used it every single day and we often asked her to put on some of our favorite raps such as “wow i just discovered america”, a song about how christopher columbus did not in fact discover america.
@@coolhandle572 I showed a flocabulary video about hygiene to my students and they genuinely liked it. I like using song but my goal is always to find ones that the students will like but won’t feel annoying when listened to more than once. The worst part of songs growing up was when you started hating them.
In kindergarten I used IReady but someone before I owned the computer installed a virus on the computer that hacked IReady to say very weird things so when I used it it would have a blank background and was threatening to do very bad stuff and I was scared to go to school but then my parents found out and took me out of the school
As a Florida student who just graduated in May, here’s what I did through my school years: Elementary: Starfall I-Ready Successmaker (The one with Ferret, Chameleon, Parrot, Fish, Hamster, and Bug) BrainPOP Ticket to Read (it no longer exists unfortunately) Flocabulary Middle School: I-Ready Carnegie Learning Math IXL BrainPOP Reflex Math High School: Khan Academy Edgenuity EDpuzzle
I remember these I Ready reading lessions i took in middle school with a penguin and he was like doing some spy mission throughout it and it was like the only time i was mildly entertained by it but he had to say "boom boom, baby!" After every correct answer and that got annoying so fast. But then apparently i got so good at the reading mode in like 7th or 8th grade that there weren't even any characters at all in the lessons for me anymore, but the math lessons were still the exact same thing so I'd never do them unless i had an assigned one. Also apparently if you constantly did bad in the lessions they literally gave you ones multiple grades underleveled (like actual 2nd grade stuff in late middle school) and it was hard to go back to lessons of the correct grade so theres that (never experienced that myself i think)
i used iready a lot in later elementary (maybe 3rd-5th grade?), switched to imagine learning in 6th grade (considered elementary school at my district) and it fucking SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED i have no strong feelings on iready cause i dont remember the specifics but i remember ppl used to use inspect element to "hack" themselves more coins
22:20 i-ready during 2021 was crazy. I revived the wiki, the Anti-i-Ready Reaction, was speedrunning the rewards games (the leardboard is still ran btw), and other stuff.
I say this wholeheartedly, unironically the Rise Over Run theme song is tattoed in my brain. Even in my senior year of highschool precalc I used the song to remember how slope worked. It was such a bad song that I couldn't stop thinking about it for years.
3:31 YESSSSSSSS AGHHHH bro i love starfall so much, I actually revisit the website sometimes to get that nostalgia back. BUT THE ZIGZAG TWINS SCARED THE LIVING JESUS OUT OF ME.
They fully removed the iready characters, atlest in my school iready just doesn't have anything. No humans, no weird alien monster things, They are just gone.
Oh my GOSH. I hate I-ready so much, we only do the tests, luckily. Anyways, about something good; LIBERTY KIDS, that show had no right to be so entertaining! And the theme song absolutely SLAPS! I loved that show when we watched it, I looked forward to the end of the school day even more because then we could watch Liberty Kids. Also, there was this one angles video that all the boys LOVED, mainly due to the part where they’re talking about an obtuse angle and say something like “it has a big caboose!” As a pizza delivery guy shakes his butt in the camera and he had a GINORMOUS DUMPTRUCK. I forgot who she is but a popular UA-cam animator worked on it when she was just starting her animation career. Anyways, I spent way too long on this comment.
The only ones of these that I remember using were Starfall, Bill Nye, Crash Course, and the Amoeba Sisters. I think the programs like IReady and the monotonous program might primarily be used in states where teachers get tenure. In Texas, we didn’t have tenure for teachers, which was very fortunate. But they still used the educational programs every now and then cuz of course they needed breaks, but they actually did teach most of the time. I think these programs only really work if you’re also learning in the classroom and they should only be used sparingly
Iready was the worst way to do Standardized Tests. Also at the beginning they play videos that are like “Don’t rush through or you will have to take the test again,” the real kids in those videos had to be the biggest teacher’s pets that it is not funny. Anyway very nostalgic vid!
Here I was having a nice day and then bam, slapped with the Edgenuity PTSD. I remember almost everybody at my school using a TamperMonkey script I found that would automate all of the lessons and use every exploit in the book to skip the videos. At least we got to do basically nothing for an hour a day.
@@DoofenSpyroDragon16 Kahoot and Blooket are so fun. We used Quizziz and Gimkit on top of those two as well. For Blooket, it was mainly used by my Spanish II teacher for our vocabulary and for Gimkit it was mainly used by my Forensics teacher to get us introduced to a new unit. Anyway, yeah Edgenuity sucks take everyone’s word for it 😅
it's a bit more modern so I'm not surprised it's missing but in my books Prodigy is up there with Starfall and Bill Nye, the thing is a full on math RPG
@@DeterminedBladeI agree I enjoyed it, although even my dumbass couldn’t get a question right I had to use a calculator, I was in inclusion in middle school, I’m no longer in inclusion now, man was I the most silent I’ve ever been, so shy in fact & incredibly confused. I felt like going through an academical crisis just trying to understand complicated things I haven’t understood or learned yet. Thankfully I made up my mind and decided to leave it. If only I was prepared to know I’d be confused cuz all my teacher in the class I was in before that was I would make some new friends and that was it, now uhh about making some new friends, well uhh… ya see I was quiet, like silent quiet I barely spoke a word, people everywhere I was stressed out I legit talked to nobody other than my two friends that went into inclusion with me cuz I was already familiar with them but god I was so shy…. so uhh yeah something tells the next time somebody tells me I’m going into inclusion I will not take it very well. Anyways… I yapped a lot about a personal experience… I am good at doing that and I can’t deny it, the stress got into my head didn’t it? so anyways ending it here.
Seeing i-ready on here gave me intense elementary school flashbacks. I actually enjoyed it somewhat until 5th grade, when for some reason they removed everything that made the site entertaining
Dude I love watching your videos and this is no exception of course, but this feels like the most YOU video yet in the best way possible. You can just feel the passion and humor in every scene and it’s so great to see. Also interesting how, other than Bill Nye, I never heard of any of these, it’s really a fascinating tale of how different education is/changes district to district for schools. I woulda eaten up Organ WiseGuys as a kid though, I won’t lie, puppetry was my jam as a kid (still kinda is)
a very fun rowe reviews video. this is one of your best, maybe even THE best. feels like you found a style that bleeds your personality. its really cool. looking forward to the next ones
Dude… I remember telling my friends about Sweet T’s shirt looking like that logo… thank you for not making me sound crazy because that was always stuck in my head when doing these crappy lessons as a lil’ dude
I-ready was something that made me tweak the fuck out sometimes, but DAMN I was good at it! I blame iReady for the realization of how comically ahead of math I am
this is such a comfy and interesting vid, really enjoyed it!! There wasnt anything like this shown in my school, its pretty interesting that there was a whole puppet show made specifically for classrooms, and im pretty sure id be excited to watch it as a kid lmao) Anyways, instant sub)) i love your editing and delivery and id love to see more vids like this! Keep it going xx
It kinda rings a bell for me. If I remember correctly, when you finished your session you’d have to go get the next student to get on. It had like a mix of 2d flash animation, live action and theyd also read books to you. The mascots were brown raccoon siblings. I think it was called Waterford???
This made me really appreciate being among the “last year” or so of a lot of the edutainment programs I experienced being given to kids. Iready sounds like even more of a drain than IXL was. Jumpstart was great to have during early elementary, and I’ve never been more glad to have been a BrainPop school district because that was actually cool and fun despite being heavy handed on the education side
I have my own to add to this. IStation The logo is of a silhouette of a boy with a red cape. They had stuff for basically every subject. I remember specifically there were these little characters in white shirts with 2-3 letter sounds (like ch, wh, and a few more). They were rapping with their respective phonetic sounds. Looking through screenshots on Google, I recognize most of the stuff I see on there. Had some great memories with it in 2nd-6th grade. (Omg I use/used Starfall and The Amoeba Sisters and even Crash Course too! Also Bill Nye and The Magic Schoolbus! Also I was forced to use Edgenuity for my Spanish I course so I also have experience with it.)
There's a program that I've been looking for YEARS now. It was an old educational program that was run on old Windows/Macintosh computers in our Kindergarten classroom. It was kind of like Starfall, but it was much more colorful. Each subject category in a different color. Like math was blue and phonix was pink/red. The only game I 100% remember was the Math Magician game with a little wizard guy. I've tried so hard to find it but no luck.
I don't know how but I came in contact with a DVD from the show "Beakmans World" as a kid, which was a lot like BillNye despite coming out about a year earlier but more focused on actually making projects by hand while the host, Beakman who was much more chaotic than bill would guide the audience on how to make the projects. It was really fun and I watched it a few times as a kid
Omg great video! Just got recommended this randomly and was very engaged through the whole thing! Also that i-ready rap video flows even worse than I remember lmao
When I was in elementary school 2005-2010 we used a program called SuccessMaker. It is kind of like I ready now of days but a bit more trippy. There was a reading and math portion. The beginning of every year you would pick a different mascot for the math one, witch was a dog, a Dino and I think a robot. They would have little animations in the correct when you got problems wrong or right. The math would be set to what your teacher was teaching. The reading side had the same mascots, the one I remember the most was a ferret and a chameleon. But that side of it was a lot like I ready because it would first be set up with how your teacher think what level everyone should be at but it would adjust as you use it. It was such a werid program and outside of the schools I went to no one has heard of it and if it wasn't for the fact I found pictures of it I would of thought I made up the program. If anyone has used it please tell me.
I remember coming to America from Ukraine in the second grade in November, coming in, I had no English knowledge, not even how to say hello, & half of the time I was in ESL, but in ESL we never had starfall or anything like that, we had just I-Ready and Schoolhouse Rock, and the teacher’s lessons.. I despised English because it was so hard, I actually have memories of crying when I was trying to pronounce words like I remember we learned how to pronounce “four” and when we were guessing how to say “hour” I accidentally said “w**re” instead of “hour”, and I still cannot pronounce a th, a W, or that vowel in words like “nurse” and “girl”, And I remember failing all of the English tests, when I finally got to a fourth grade English class, I failed the class. Repeated the year TWICE, and I hated English class. I hated when people asked me how to say the alphabet because in ESL we never learned the alphabet (I still don’t know how to say letters of the alphabet in English) and I remember I-Ready, my worst nightmare, I remember we would have phonics tests and I would get 1st grade level English lessons on I-Ready. English was my worst nightmare but I’m glad I can speak English at a 6th grade level now
i was obsessed with starfall as a kid!! and i remember when i was in like the 5th grade i was in the gifted program and we used this site called First In Math, and we had to complete a certain amount of things (i think it was to get a bunch of achievement stickers) before a deadline, and i remember i spent like a whole day (obviously the day before the deadline) to do all of it. i dont remember if it was actually cool or not but we all got rubber bracelets for completing it lmao. i also remember we used khan academy, and for some reason vi-hart was on there so i would spend so much time just watching her videos on there
There was a lesson in I-ready and it was about butterflies and I remember absolutely DESPISING it. I kept getting it wrong over and over again, and that’s the only reason I remember it.
when i tell you seeing the iready mascots kicked me into fight or flight
Understandable.
EXACTLY
Even the iready logo got me into fight and fight mode.
REAL!
Plory and yoop
The iready diagnostic intro is burned into my brain
"hi. My name is devon. I'm in the 9th grade. And like you, i had to take the diagnostic. The diagnostic is NOT a typical test.."
Then they talk about what happens if you try to speed through the test and why it's a really bad idea 😭
AS A FRESHMAN I CAN'T WAIT TO FINALLY GRADUATE FROM IREADY. (I'm level H and have been since 7th grade but never ran out of lessons sadly)
They wouldn't let you skip it. Like bro let me get ts over with. And they tell you how to answer a question, like i'm some sort of caveman.
oh my god! you're giving me war flashbacks.
I DONT CARS IF I GET LESSONS THAT ARENT RIGHT FOR ME.
the starfall avatar editor was my most favorite thing to do in school
Yes! I particularly remember that part of Starfall! I remember it was a game called Who Am I? and it started by having you select boy or girl. I was so obsessed with that game that I started telling people “you push the boy button” or “you push the girl button”
@@marian_hayes I think there was also a birthday part where you would put how old you were (I messed around with that feature a lot)
bro have u heard of 95 phonics😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
omg i remembered that too!!!
WHO. AM. I❓❓❓❓❓❓❓🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
The i-ready characters all look like 6teen/Total Drama knockoffs.
real lmao
Fr tho-
Lmao
THE CORRECT OPINION
I remember watching 6teen
One of my worst i-ready memories was whenever I got a wrong answer, they’d say “NoT qUiTe☝️🤓”
And then they spend five minutes telling you everything wrong with you when you just misclicked😍😍
This is so foreign to me I ready was just used fir testing
*picks the right tawnser* not quite 🤓
THEY AFE SO FACKING ANNOYING
me wanting to throw my computer when that happens:
ok but prodigy. PLEASE. this was my favorite, i loved battling against my friends and stuff
Bro fr! Amazing I need to admit, I'm in 8th grade and my school stopped using Prodigy but I don't I love it!
Fr it brings childhood!
i remember getting so mad when i tried to avoid the enemies and they STILL got me
@@coffeemetro Fr.
Yal heard of the episode of bill nye where they featured a giraffe giving birth
the iready mascot in the thumbnail gave me flashbacks 😭😭
fun fact there was an i-ready rebellion when i was in middle school. we called it “i’m not ready” and had these cards with the i-ready logo and a big x over it. it was peak tbh
that's awesome lmao
thanks for the idea
@@Moldovallan1618 you’re welcome LET THE REVOLUTION LIVE ON!!!
@@memoryratYEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
YEAAAAAAAAAAAA🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅@@ItalianCountryball11
I remember drawing moustaches on the Iready characters using the pencil tool and my teacher saw it and made me go outside to have a talk with me
I also remember being so mad about it that I started vandalizing the Iready wiki
I would also draw mustaches over Covid we were required to do 20 minutes a day it was hell so I just drew on the characters
massive w
your teacher's a pud and you were right to do that
i used to just scribble over their mouths in an attempt to shut them up-
omg i remember that i-ready would tell our teachers how fast we did it so we'd have to re-do the ENTIRE test if we went a little too quick. I was always really quick at taking tests, so even if I did do all the work i'd sit there staring at the screen for a full minute before submitting my answer each time
i hated doing the big questions in the reading lessons😭😭
The I ready diagnostics made me fucking cry
Same
I hated how low quality the sound effects were
The calculator in the diagnostic is shit
@@greypblox379 real
I just got bored and scrolled around on other sites while occasionally going back and doing 3 questions before going back to DeviantArt or WattPad or Scratch.
I hate I-ready with a burning passion because they would make us do it everyday before school ended and I remember the “SUUUHHHH-WEEET” always catching me off guard back then
I had to 40 minutes of that every week in both subjects 😭😭😭
@@STYX129I HAD TO DO 75 MINUTES+
@@2mg679I only have to do 30 mins for learning games in math and 30 mins to read a book dawg are you good😓
OMG I HATE THAT SOUND THE PINK HAIRED GIRL MAKES LMAO
"Fow-show" lives rent free in my head. >:[
I was a Starfall kid. I got on it when I was maybe 3 or 4 years old at home. I learned to read basically entirely independently through that. I specifically remember that there was a song about Y called "Y can be a vowel" and because they put red lips on it and gave her a feminine voice I had a CRUSH on the LETTER Y.
😳
Hmm interesting
The Y was definitely meant to be punk, if not butch
OMG I REMEMBER THAT. Definitely putting her on my Hear me out cake.
Lmfao
i-ready was such a feverdream. i dont remember anything it taught me, i just remember the two stupid aliens and their dog.
I Remember I-Ready And Do You Guys Remember The One With Azul And His Friends And The Mysterious Guy Voice That Is Really Stuck In My Head.
@@malcolmcharles9464 oooh yeah Azul! didnt he do a bunch of reading stuff if i remember right? and you'd answer questions off the text? regardless, ik what you mean.
Yoop and plory, and the dog was snorg
I’m in fourth grade and still do I ready
Ya, I also hate one the accessibly went "Yoop Yoop" LIKE NOBODY CARES OH MY GOSH!!!!
Oh god i-Ready…. I forgot how miserable it was when we were assigned those lessons for homework. They were unnecessarily long, horribly corny and dragged out, and the worst part of all was that they would assess you at the end with 7-10 questions. If you failed…. You had to do the entire 40 minute slogfest alllllllllll over again, and there’s no fast forwarding or anything of the sort. It was the closest thing I could remember being absolute torture as far as homework goes
That's the main thing I hated about I-ready. They lessons were so long and when you failed the quiz at the end you'd need to go through that long lesson all over again
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Fr . One time, I got two questions wrong and ended up having to do the whole thing over again because I got a 75, somehow??
I used to hate seeing how badly lipsynced the iready people were animated
Their mouths just flam random movements
realll
their mouths went bam bam bam bam and said "what's 42 + 50?"
Sonic adventure ahh lip sync
YESS FR
I despised i-Ready. In elementary we had to do 2 reading lessons and 2 math lessons every week on there as homework. It always took like twice as long as it should have because you would put in the answer then you would have to wait for them to stop yapping.
EXACTLY!! AND THE ELA LESSONS DIDNT WVEN LET YOU PUT IN THE ANSWERS BEFORE THEY STOPPED YAPPING
THE MATH LESSONS TOOK TOO LONG!! IT TOOK THEM LITERALLY 20 MINUTES TO GET THROUGH SUPPLEMENTARY AND COMPLEMENTARY ANGLES!!!
So annoying when yu wanna go fast and get it over with
YES OMG THIS ^^^
Yo same, @thedestroyerofcheese! I had to do 2 math and 2 read too, and the math, I couldn’t get done half the time because first, I couldn’t even get in from my tablet, and 2nd, we had so little time.. The reading was quick though, but that’s the only plus. (Also, my comment was deleted for some reason, it didn’t have anything wrong.. It was about how I thought I-ready was decent as a whole.)
Back when I was in elementary I hated it. Luckily I think I only had to start using it at 2nd-3rd grade. Last year, when my brother was in kindergarten he had to do iready?! Let’s be real here I get second graders but iready is WAYYYY too much for them. Back when I was a kindergartner we didn’t even have Chromebooks, we even exceeded to the point where we *technically* published our own book (it was about what our teddy bears do at night 💀) and we didn’t have that shit. Tbh kids shouldn’t use Chromebook’s at that age, in fact, they shouldn’t have internet access at that age. Wait until Johnny googles “p0rn” and happens to get his parents taken away after that.
When I failed a question in I ready the “dung” noise gave me a mental breakdown one time.
YUP I felt miserable every time I heard it
you don’t understand how angry i was when the iready games were taken away for the stupid balloon breathing. i would try as hard as possible to breathe out of sync with it in an act of rebellion. so glad i don’t have to do it anymore and now i just get to participate in the big scam that is collegeboard(also, in the diagnostics i would ALWAYS get the same excerpts over and over. the invisible man. the gettysburg address. wuthering heights. apparently that didn’t happen to anyone else but it DID TO ME)
also raz kids was my FAVORITE thing ever. the reading thing with the spaceship that you could customize. idk if anyone else ever did that though maybe my school was just weird
YESS UGH BALLON BREATHING SUCKED
OMG I MISS THE CAT STACKING GAME DURING THE BREAK AND WHEN I GOT OLDER IT CHANGED AND IM LIKE WTF THIS ISNT THE GAME
@@ThatOneSwiftie89 SAMEEE THE CATS ARE SO FREAKING CUTE-
@@ThatOneSwiftie89 my fav was the submarine one!
raz kids is an absolute w, I remember constantly reading the Aesop’s fables
My soul just fell down a flight of stairs when I saw Starfall and I-Ready. If Starfall was heaven, I-ready was hell.
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i'm sitting in my college's library right now, the last time i did i-ready was when i was 12, and hearing that rap song made my chest start hurting. i never experienced starfall but we did have access to abcya, i guess. they had duck life.
Is I-Station just purgatory then?
Yes.💀
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No, no, that’s IXL. Those took forever.
Do everyone remember in school that teachers use Brainpop for teaching us some lessons. I do remember that I used to watch Brainpop to teach about the history or science topics.
yess and i remember starfall :')
I only got that in middle school
I loved Brainpop because it had a girl and a robot, I still remember Moby’s iconic *beep!* sound. 😄
I LOVE THAT WEBSITEE
I sure remember!
Sheeattt!!! Starfall got me spooked when I was in school. Like, when I answered a question correctly, a weirdly animated star with a face appears on my computer screen and that shit made me scared for life, man! ⭐️
*D I N G !*
GOOD JOB!
I remember avoiding the W part of the alphabet section when I was like 3 because the wolf sound effect scared me
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@@marcusmining5505 That's can't even compare to the very last letter in the alphabet list, that gave us what us cowards would call, The Zig Zag kids!
@@marcusmining5505 Jumpscare Warning?
Left to right, left to right, that’s the way we read and write 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
Holy shit, I used to be obsessed with Starfall as a kid.
Same 💀😭🙏
@@ThatIdiot_Corndog also same here #childhoodclassic
Same bro
The memories 😢
the songs
seeing the iready character in the thumbnail just dug up some middle school memories of having to do iready lessons (i didn't really like i-ready tbh looking back)
I remember starfall. Zac the rat is the most iconic character i know from kids education.
I forgot his name lol
Tbh I forgot about the rat entirely but somehow remembered the bear from starfall
@@arandomdudeontheinternet5792 the bear was also pretty iconic
Backpack bear 😫
I remember drawing dinosaurs eating the Iready characters with the drawing tool lmao
I would also color the character's eyes to be pitch black or red
yummers! as a dinosaur, these were my childhood favorite snacks
I need to see these bro
🆀🆆🅴🆁🆃🆈🆄🅸🅾🅿
🅰🆂🅳🅵🅶🅷🅹🅺🅻
⇧🆉🆇🅲🆅🅱🅽🅼⌫
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I remember drawing a syringe filled with black next to the iready guys, where I then would cover them in black.. Goop stuff I guess and give them evil teeth and eyes. I made mlp infection an stuff before it was cool.
What kind of Child are you-
My school uses Bill Nye (for all), Magic school bus (for all), Amoeba Sisters, I-ready (for middleschool and elementary) and sometimes starfall for the elementary. BUT MY SCHOOL DOESNT KNOW THE ORGAN WISE GUYS. THE REST OF THEM ARE STILL USED AT MY SCHOOL (excluding the organ wise guys.) 😭
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I’m glad i-Ready was not some weird delusion I had and was in fact a real thing
I wish it was a delusion
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I REMEMBER THE STARFALL JACK O LANTERN THING
IK THE CAT AND DOG HEART SONG THAT SAID AMONG US NOW ONE TIME
Same
pick 🙂 a! pumpkin! 😊
i had a nightmare about the iready mascots running around my school and screaming “DiD yOu dO YoUr LeSsOn YeT?”
I want to make a list of some of the media I grew up with:
1. Liberty's Kids: a PBS kids show about the American Revolutionary War with a theme song that has no right to go so hard.
2. Miss Pattycake: an obscure one from my Evangelical childhood in North Alabama. It's about a lady named Miss Pattycake who lives in a magical house where everything comes alive. She guides kids through her house while singing about the Bible. She came to my little church when I was really young and it was like meeting Taylor Swift in the flesh. I think I have an old puppet of her somewhere and some DVDs/VHS tapes.
3. Baby Einstein: I think the idea behind it was that the classical music was supposed to stimulate our brains and make us smarter or something, but I only really cared about the visuals.
4. Leapfrog: I had a few home videos from leapfrog that taught the alphabet, spelling, reading, and basic math. The premise behind most of them was that three frog kids would tour a factory that built letters, words, or numbers. I liked to watch the letter factory one the most but the most helpful one was called Complex Word Complex because, well, it taught more complex concepts like double vowels and compound and complex words. I also had a leapster l-max which was no Nintendo DS but still much better than nothing. I liked that if you didn't insert a cartridge you could play a Scooby Doo game or mess around in an MS paint-like program.
5. Cedarmont Kids: another Evangelical Southern one. They made music video collections and sold them on pretty much every format at the time. I had a few VHS tapes and many DVDs. Some collections were more explicitly religious than others. The one I remember the most fondly is actually the God Bless America one, which has a mix of patriotic songs and regular kid songs. Every DVD also has a bonus collection of one song from every collection at the end. I would get excited for "This is My Commandment" because I recognized the filming location: the Nashville Zoo playground!
6. multiplication.com: self-explanitory, a website with multiplication games. It's still up today but it's gotten a facelift since I used it around 2010. My favorite games were Multiplication Grand Prix, a multiplayer game where you raced other race cars by getting the most multiplication questions right the quickest, Sketch's World, which had you answer a few multiplication questions to play a level of a platformer, and Cone Crazy, where you play as a penguin serving ice cream to other penguins.
7. Brain POP: a website that hosts videos on just about any topic a 9-13 year old would be learning about in school with quizzes. One of my teachers gave the whole class her credentials and I used it to binge watch their videos. It filled a lot of gaps the Alabama public education system left in my schooling, especially in science and social studies.
8. Veggietales: yet another Evangelical one. It's singing vegetables reenacting Bible stories and teaching life lessons. My favorite episodes were mostly based on the most fucked up Bible stories. King George and the Rubber Ducky was based off King David sending Uriah to war in order to hide the fact that David had impregnated his wife. The Veggietales version is actually worse. King George sent a poor child to the front lines of a pie war so that he can steal the kid's rubber ducky, despite having dozens of identical ones already. The kid comes back obviously shell-shocked, but at least the king eventually gives him his duck back.
9. Fizzy's Lunch Lab: a web series from PBS Kids Go that taught kids about nutrition. It had bite-sized full episodes, recipe videos, music videos, and a talk show parody where Professor Fizzy would interview random foods. In the main show, Professor Fizzy runs a restaurant(?) to compete with Fast Food Freddy and his restaurant/theme park Greasy World while teaching two kids about eating right. Some of the advice is outdated, like its recommendation to seek out low-fat foods (fat is an important part of the diet that helps us absorb certain vitamins, but the sugar industry pushed the low-fat craze to get attention off of them and to add more sugar to our food supply), but overall the show really helped me as a kid with ARFID, a condition that wasn't even recognized as a thing back then. ARFID makes it really hard to eat a variety of food, often due to issues with the taste and texture, and the show was kind of like exposure therapy for me.
10. coolmath-games.com: I can't believe this one wasn't in the video. I've spent countless hours playing Run 2, IQ Ball/Tarzan Ball, the Papa games, World's Hardest Game, and so much more. I actually reached the better than Papa rank in Papa's Tacoria as a kid. Prophetically, my first job was as a "food champion" at Taco Bell.
I'm sure I could keep going, but this comment is already ridiculously long. I think the fact that many of my picks are specific to my region and time period proves how unique this genre is to everyone. My experience in the gray area between the Deep South and Appalachia in the 2000s/early 2010s is much different than the experience of someone who grew up in Brooklyn in the 90s, or the experience of someone who's growing up in the UK right now. But still, our experiences have commonalities. Of course I remember Bill Nye, and the Magic School Bus, and Crash Course, and even the Amoeba Sisters! It's fun to see what other people also remember, tell them about what you're nostalgic for, and listen their experiences.
I had a few leapfrog things. 😄
BROCOLLI, CELERY, WANNA BE, VEGGIETALES! (larryboy was the best tho.)
LIBERTY'S KIDS OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT MY 4TH GRADE TEACHER SHOWED US THAT ON OUR AMERICAN REVOLUTION UNIT
LEAPFROG MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️ My favorite one was the alphabet amusement park one :D
I grew up with most of those! Ah good memories…
24:32 I LOVED Crash Course but it got pretty old after my teacher kept telling us to do stations and Crash Course was ALWAYS apart of it. But there is the perk that John Green used to write romance novels so in middle school once I read The Fault In Our Stars I found that funny.
Crash course is goated
IReady just wants you to know in ELA, they don’t even care to teach you, they just threw you in there and said “have a great time!”
Reading I ready actually got me excited because the intro in the alien arc was actually good in little kid standerds back then.
Thank you for talking about Starfall. I remember being addicted to that website when I was younger and loved the character designs and animations. It's nice to know other people remember that educational experience as well. 🦅
I remember Starfall. From years Kindergarten through 2nd Grade, we would go to our computer lab, and play on it. Man, that website hits hard with nostalgia.
When my middle school introduced I-ready, we thought it was great! But then later on we started to get annoyed by the lessons and never took it seriously. We just did the lessons to get doughnuts XD
Ya'll got doughnuts for doing it??? that's awesome lmao, wish we got that
I ready sucked balls
Thank Jesus that you didn't know about Dreambox or the dreaded Aleks, like my school has
@@RamyaTheGeographyGirlAHHHHHH ALEKS 😭
Doughnuts for lessons reminds me of the old Book-It program where you could get pizza for reading books.
I was obsessed with Starfall. I remembered in 2nd grade my best friend and I were walking along and my friend said, “We’ll be in 3rd grade soon so we’ll be too old for Starfall!” I was so distraught…anyway great video!
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My school stopped Using I-ready Because those dionostics were making kids go fucking nuts, we use IXL now
Yeah IXL is better
@@RaysGamingChannel2003Its more forgiving tbh, in my school IXL is heavily utilized and honestly it’s not that bad if you can get over the scoring system and how much of a mess it is.
I hated it tbh
IXL for me at least, sucked. The point system is screwed up
bro you are luuucckkyyy
My school was obsessed with IXL, we only used IReady diagnostics for standardized testing. So glad I’ve escaped IReady lmao
As somone who used I-ready alot. It was absolute hell. But i loved how you could hold letter down on numbers only input boxes and holding down more letter keys made the error noise louder
I love doing that
When the class is silent I just love to…
Dun! Dun! Dun!!! DUN!!! DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDRDRDDDDDDUUUUUNN!
I remember in like 3rd grade my teacher said to me “Hey, let’s not waste our time changing the background on I-Ready” and that traumatized me for like a year bc everybody else was doing it and she said it the day after I had changed it
i had a visceral reaction to seeing starfall and i-ready
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Staff all makes me feel joy, I Ready makes me feel dread
The diagnostic gives me nightmares, It was soo damn boring and was required to take it ;-;
i only liked iready for the cat stacker game that music is a jam
Thanks so much for the nostalgia trip; Starfall was my childhood! Awesome video, keep up the great work :)
Stallfall was my shit! My whole class used to play on it on the school computers everyday. I even played it at home on my mom's laptop.
same bro... same
When I was in middle school… edgeinuty absolutely burnt me out. I vividly remember crying nights in a row over how I was 10% behind on everything :(
THIS. THIS EXACTLY. never ever never ever take spanish edgenuity it burnt me out for months
@ REALLLLLLLL my mom also told me this story about how I was having A PANIC ATTACK over this crap
@@Your_LocalCrouton 🤝😭
@@twotruckslyrics 🤝🥲
WE’RE SERIOUSLY DIGGING UP CHILDHOOD WEBSITES I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND FOR A YEAR WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️💯
…Thank you
YO WE WATCH THE AMOEBA SISTER IN MY BIOLOGY CLASS THESE DAYS!!!
I watched it last year for freshman year! It was one of the few videos we had to watch that I enjoyed
I remember I-Ready made a vocab game that was introduced by "now you can play games; they're a blast!" followed by a rocket ship blasting off. Another english lesson taught me texting slang, followed by the most stereotypical text according to adults. And don't get me started on the tests. They took so, fucking, long! They even gave you some long ass essays for 3 or so questions. Needless to say, I-Ready made me question why my school even used this program.
@@CollinAnimates2006 Ikr
Im so glad the comments are reassuring my hatred for I-ready and how much it sucked.
Ikr
Im a TA this year and iready took place of the MAP test. It’s so nostalgic seeing them use the program
I remeber now. The second I saw “starfall” on the screen I could finally remember, like an old memory brought back by a photo album. I remember learning tongue twisters and bragging to my parents about how fast i could say the would chuck one… Im gonna revisit it.
love this video! i’m surprised you didn’t mention brainpop. those videos had such an impact on myself and my classmates in elementary school. a possibly niche education program i remember fondly was flocabulary. i had a history teacher in middle school who used it every single day and we often asked her to put on some of our favorite raps such as “wow i just discovered america”, a song about how christopher columbus did not in fact discover america.
we lit dunked on kids who made moby not dance (on jr, cuz idk why we still did it) (also moby doesnt dance when you get a question wrong)
I LOVE flocabulary it’s the best edutainment thing ever made
brainpop is genuinely the goat.
Flocabukary was fun and I liked the brainpop vids too
@@coolhandle572 I showed a flocabulary video about hygiene to my students and they genuinely liked it. I like using song but my goal is always to find ones that the students will like but won’t feel annoying when listened to more than once. The worst part of songs growing up was when you started hating them.
I’m so glad someone else remembers Starfall and the OrganWise Guys. (Especially the OrganWise Guys.)
In kindergarten I used IReady but someone before I owned the computer installed a virus on the computer that hacked IReady to say very weird things so when I used it it would have a blank background and was threatening to do very bad stuff and I was scared to go to school but then my parents found out and took me out of the school
I feel bad for giggling at this comment..
Who another kindergartener
Link? For personal reasons
this feels like something that would be shown on vinesauce
As a Florida student who just graduated in May, here’s what I did through my school years:
Elementary:
Starfall
I-Ready
Successmaker (The one with Ferret, Chameleon, Parrot, Fish, Hamster, and Bug)
BrainPOP
Ticket to Read (it no longer exists unfortunately)
Flocabulary
Middle School:
I-Ready
Carnegie Learning Math
IXL
BrainPOP
Reflex Math
High School:
Khan Academy
Edgenuity
EDpuzzle
bro mentioned reflex math (that fucking bear with the same name as me literally ran like Naruto lmao-)
edpuzzle and i-ready are my opps
Study island !!!
Also FCATexplorer
FLOCABULARY WAS SO FIRE IN ELEMENTARY 😭
The zigzag kids scared the sh*t out of me as a kid..
I remember these I Ready reading lessions i took in middle school with a penguin and he was like doing some spy mission throughout it and it was like the only time i was mildly entertained by it but he had to say "boom boom, baby!" After every correct answer and that got annoying so fast.
But then apparently i got so good at the reading mode in like 7th or 8th grade that there weren't even any characters at all in the lessons for me anymore, but the math lessons were still the exact same thing so I'd never do them unless i had an assigned one.
Also apparently if you constantly did bad in the lessions they literally gave you ones multiple grades underleveled (like actual 2nd grade stuff in late middle school) and it was hard to go back to lessons of the correct grade so theres that (never experienced that myself i think)
Once I called the organwise guys bone person “ms ugly lips” in kindergarten and got in trouble
i used iready a lot in later elementary (maybe 3rd-5th grade?), switched to imagine learning in 6th grade (considered elementary school at my district) and it fucking SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED
i have no strong feelings on iready cause i dont remember the specifics but i remember ppl used to use inspect element to "hack" themselves more coins
Oh my god I remember that stuff. It was funny as fuck.
my school blocked the inspect 😭
22:20 i-ready during 2021 was crazy. I revived the wiki, the Anti-i-Ready Reaction, was speedrunning the rewards games (the leardboard is still ran btw), and other stuff.
I HAD IXL AND STARFALL💀💀💀 THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I HEARD ALL MY TEACHERS SAY “ you can’t play games until your diagnostic is done😭
I say this wholeheartedly, unironically the Rise Over Run theme song is tattoed in my brain. Even in my senior year of highschool precalc I used the song to remember how slope worked. It was such a bad song that I couldn't stop thinking about it for years.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.😌
3:31 YESSSSSSSS AGHHHH bro i love starfall so much, I actually revisit the website sometimes to get that nostalgia back. BUT THE ZIGZAG TWINS SCARED THE LIVING JESUS OUT OF ME.
They fully removed the iready characters, atlest in my school iready just doesn't have anything. No humans, no weird alien monster things, They are just gone.
mine too. some people have yoop and plory, but no humans, except when u get smthn correct first try it comes up with one of them doing a motion.
They evaporated after like 3rd grade for me
After third grade they jst decided to leave, at least for me lmao-
Can’t remember when, but eventually I got a mix of both characters and no characters, and eventually they were reduced to a minimum altogether.
they’re not gone, you just got to a higher level than them
OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN REMEMBERING ZAC THE RAT FOR YEARS. I've been humming that little song he sings for the longest time.
Oh my GOSH. I hate I-ready so much, we only do the tests, luckily.
Anyways, about something good; LIBERTY KIDS, that show had no right to be so entertaining! And the theme song absolutely SLAPS! I loved that show when we watched it, I looked forward to the end of the school day even more because then we could watch Liberty Kids.
Also, there was this one angles video that all the boys LOVED, mainly due to the part where they’re talking about an obtuse angle and say something like “it has a big caboose!” As a pizza delivery guy shakes his butt in the camera and he had a GINORMOUS DUMPTRUCK. I forgot who she is but a popular UA-cam animator worked on it when she was just starting her animation career.
Anyways, I spent way too long on this comment.
Why DID the theme for liberty kids sound so good??? It was a long intro, and they made it WORTH IT.
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The only ones of these that I remember using were Starfall, Bill Nye, Crash Course, and the Amoeba Sisters. I think the programs like IReady and the monotonous program might primarily be used in states where teachers get tenure. In Texas, we didn’t have tenure for teachers, which was very fortunate. But they still used the educational programs every now and then cuz of course they needed breaks, but they actually did teach most of the time. I think these programs only really work if you’re also learning in the classroom and they should only be used sparingly
7:59 this blue puppet is the cutest thing in the world i think i might cry
The intestines
Of course I like the dragon one the best. 😄
Starfall is the GOAT! Love the video btw sooooooo underrated and so unique! You just got a new subscriber!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Iready was the worst way to do Standardized Tests. Also at the beginning they play videos that are like “Don’t rush through or you will have to take the test again,” the real kids in those videos had to be the biggest teacher’s pets that it is not funny. Anyway very nostalgic vid!
Dude, you brought back so many memories for me. Glad this video was on my recommendation page.
Here I was having a nice day and then bam, slapped with the Edgenuity PTSD. I remember almost everybody at my school using a TamperMonkey script I found that would automate all of the lessons and use every exploit in the book to skip the videos. At least we got to do basically nothing for an hour a day.
Thank goodness I never had to suffer through edgenuity. 😆 we got kahoot and blooket in high school. Those are cool.
@@DoofenSpyroDragon16 Kahoot and Blooket are so fun. We used Quizziz and Gimkit on top of those two as well. For Blooket, it was mainly used by my Spanish II teacher for our vocabulary and for Gimkit it was mainly used by my Forensics teacher to get us introduced to a new unit. Anyway, yeah Edgenuity sucks take everyone’s word for it 😅
😭hate edgenuity so so much,,
it's a bit more modern so I'm not surprised it's missing but in my books Prodigy is up there with Starfall and Bill Nye, the thing is a full on math RPG
And that’s why prodigy is the only math game I will willingly play. They ACTUALLY did something FUN.
@@DeterminedBlade 🐐
@@DeterminedBladeI agree I enjoyed it, although even my dumbass couldn’t get a question right I had to use a calculator, I was in inclusion in middle school, I’m no longer in inclusion now, man was I the most silent I’ve ever been, so shy in fact & incredibly confused. I felt like going through an academical crisis just trying to understand complicated things I haven’t understood or learned yet. Thankfully I made up my mind and decided to leave it. If only I was prepared to know I’d be confused cuz all my teacher in the class I was in before that was I would make some new friends and that was it, now uhh about making some new friends, well uhh… ya see I was quiet, like silent quiet I barely spoke a word, people everywhere I was stressed out I legit talked to nobody other than my two friends that went into inclusion with me cuz I was already familiar with them but god I was so shy…. so uhh yeah something tells the next time somebody tells me I’m going into inclusion I will not take it very well. Anyways… I yapped a lot about a personal experience… I am good at doing that and I can’t deny it, the stress got into my head didn’t it? so anyways ending it here.
Seeing i-ready on here gave me intense elementary school flashbacks. I actually enjoyed it somewhat until 5th grade, when for some reason they removed everything that made the site entertaining
I hated azul so freaking much in 5th grade, everytime he said "touch down!" when i got a question right i wished i never did it at all.
I READY Made me cry every day we used it
I looked at the starfall logo and felt nostalgia, I looked at the iready logo and felt fear again
Dude I love watching your videos and this is no exception of course, but this feels like the most YOU video yet in the best way possible. You can just feel the passion and humor in every scene and it’s so great to see. Also interesting how, other than Bill Nye, I never heard of any of these, it’s really a fascinating tale of how different education is/changes district to district for schools. I woulda eaten up Organ WiseGuys as a kid though, I won’t lie, puppetry was my jam as a kid (still kinda is)
Glad you enjoyed it! I was trying to show more personality this time around so I'm glad it showed through.
a very fun rowe reviews video. this is one of your best, maybe even THE best. feels like you found a style that bleeds your personality. its really cool. looking forward to the next ones
Imagine a teacher though baldi’s basics was a real EDU software
crazy work
OH MY GOD STARFALL I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT STARFALL. Starfall was the peak of my childhood
Dude… I remember telling my friends about Sweet T’s shirt looking like that logo… thank you for not making me sound crazy because that was always stuck in my head when doing these crappy lessons as a lil’ dude
Glad I'm not the only one lol
fr, and most of my lessons didnt even have sweet t. (my lessons were too high or too low)
Ive noticed it too when i was younger
I-ready was something that made me tweak the fuck out sometimes, but DAMN I was good at it! I blame iReady for the realization of how comically ahead of math I am
this is such a comfy and interesting vid, really enjoyed it!! There wasnt anything like this shown in my school, its pretty interesting that there was a whole puppet show made specifically for classrooms, and im pretty sure id be excited to watch it as a kid lmao)
Anyways, instant sub)) i love your editing and delivery and id love to see more vids like this! Keep it going xx
Let’s not forget Arthur teaching us that fun isn’t so hard when you have a library card
All I remember from n that episode is the simp card meme
It kinda rings a bell for me. If I remember correctly, when you finished your session you’d have to go get the next student to get on. It had like a mix of 2d flash animation, live action and theyd also read books to you. The mascots were brown raccoon siblings. I think it was called Waterford???
This made me really appreciate being among the “last year” or so of a lot of the edutainment programs I experienced being given to kids. Iready sounds like even more of a drain than IXL was. Jumpstart was great to have during early elementary, and I’ve never been more glad to have been a BrainPop school district because that was actually cool and fun despite being heavy handed on the education side
I have my own to add to this. IStation
The logo is of a silhouette of a boy with a red cape. They had stuff for basically every subject. I remember specifically there were these little characters in white shirts with 2-3 letter sounds (like ch, wh, and a few more). They were rapping with their respective phonetic sounds. Looking through screenshots on Google, I recognize most of the stuff I see on there. Had some great memories with it in 2nd-6th grade.
(Omg I use/used Starfall and The Amoeba Sisters and even Crash Course too! Also Bill Nye and The Magic Schoolbus! Also I was forced to use Edgenuity for my Spanish I course so I also have experience with it.)
I havent seen Starfall since I was in 4th grade, and I still remember it vividly
There's a program that I've been looking for YEARS now. It was an old educational program that was run on old Windows/Macintosh computers in our Kindergarten classroom. It was kind of like Starfall, but it was much more colorful. Each subject category in a different color. Like math was blue and phonix was pink/red. The only game I 100% remember was the Math Magician game with a little wizard guy. I've tried so hard to find it but no luck.
7:16 You just unlocked a whole new memory for me. I remember seeing these guys on PBS Kids all the time back in the day!
I don't know how but I came in contact with a DVD from the show "Beakmans World" as a kid, which was a lot like BillNye despite coming out about a year earlier
but more focused on actually making projects by hand while the host, Beakman who was much more chaotic than bill would guide the audience on how to make the projects.
It was really fun and I watched it a few times as a kid
Omg great video! Just got recommended this randomly and was very engaged through the whole thing! Also that i-ready rap video flows even worse than I remember lmao
Yo Starfall was my favorite back then, thanks for bringing it up again
Omg i remember organwise guys. 😭 they used to do those shorts a ton of times inbetween shows on pbs kids. The bone thing always scared tf out of me.
When I was in elementary school 2005-2010 we used a program called SuccessMaker. It is kind of like I ready now of days but a bit more trippy. There was a reading and math portion. The beginning of every year you would pick a different mascot for the math one, witch was a dog, a Dino and I think a robot. They would have little animations in the correct when you got problems wrong or right. The math would be set to what your teacher was teaching. The reading side had the same mascots, the one I remember the most was a ferret and a chameleon. But that side of it was a lot like I ready because it would first be set up with how your teacher think what level everyone should be at but it would adjust as you use it. It was such a werid program and outside of the schools I went to no one has heard of it and if it wasn't for the fact I found pictures of it I would of thought I made up the program. If anyone has used it please tell me.
I remember coming to America from Ukraine in the second grade in November, coming in, I had no English knowledge, not even how to say hello, & half of the time I was in ESL, but in ESL we never had starfall or anything like that, we had just I-Ready and Schoolhouse Rock, and the teacher’s lessons.. I despised English because it was so hard, I actually have memories of crying when I was trying to pronounce words like I remember we learned how to pronounce “four” and when we were guessing how to say “hour” I accidentally said “w**re” instead of “hour”, and I still cannot pronounce a th, a W, or that vowel in words like “nurse” and “girl”, And I remember failing all of the English tests, when I finally got to a fourth grade English class, I failed the class. Repeated the year TWICE, and I hated English class. I hated when people asked me how to say the alphabet because in ESL we never learned the alphabet (I still don’t know how to say letters of the alphabet in English) and I remember I-Ready, my worst nightmare, I remember we would have phonics tests and I would get 1st grade level English lessons on I-Ready. English was my worst nightmare but I’m glad I can speak English at a 6th grade level now
i was obsessed with starfall as a kid!! and i remember when i was in like the 5th grade i was in the gifted program and we used this site called First In Math, and we had to complete a certain amount of things (i think it was to get a bunch of achievement stickers) before a deadline, and i remember i spent like a whole day (obviously the day before the deadline) to do all of it. i dont remember if it was actually cool or not but we all got rubber bracelets for completing it lmao. i also remember we used khan academy, and for some reason vi-hart was on there so i would spend so much time just watching her videos on there
YOU OPENED UP A FLOOD OF MEMORIES FOR ME!!!!
no one EVER remembers the organ wise guys but i LOVED them
Me too. I had a big obsession with puppets at the time (and I still do).
There was a lesson in I-ready and it was about butterflies and I remember absolutely DESPISING it. I kept getting it wrong over and over again, and that’s the only reason I remember it.