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Week 3

I found the Hirsh-Pasek article incredibly compelling due to its potential real world applications. Particularly, I came away wondering how we could assure that parents and app developers had access to/considered this information when making choices about apps for children. As the article mentioned, the potential effects on the achievement gap that could be achieved by… Read more Week 3

A Delicate Balance

A major theme that kept popping up in “Putting the Education back in ‘Educational’ Apps” was that of between potentially conflicting “pillars of Learning Science.” The largest conflict was that which exists between making an app entertaining, but not to the level where it becomes distracting to a child(or adult for that matter!). I feel… Read more A Delicate Balance