Week 7: Role of technology in simple interventions

What I got out of the readings is that interventions can be really simple and don’t have to involve high technology. Interventions like talking kids through math problems and solutions, and supervising on which websites to go to, can make a huge difference. It reminds me of a conversation I had with a professor, who told me that simply asking kids to predict how much everything in the shopping cart costs would greatly foster math learning.

Since these interventions are so easy to do but usually ignored, how can technologies play a role transforming them into habit? I am thinking of using text messages daily or weekly to give parents guidance on what to do. It’d be helpful for the content of the messages to be determined by the location parents are in.