https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j DISAGREE en-us 2017-12-15 14:31:48 UTC 2017-12-15 17:56:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216514570 People say that "Playing games on these screens is just a waste of time. It's going to distract children from their education." Game developers know that you can learn a lot about a player's skill by looking at the back-end data: Where did a player pause? Where did they make a few mistakes before they found the right answer? A team of scientist wanted to take that tool set and apply it to academic learning.
A group of scientist created a series of Curious George games focused on math. And researchers came in and had 80 preschoolers play these games. They then gave all 80 of those preschoolers a standardized math test. They could see early on that these games were actually helping kids understand some key skills. But our partners at UCLA wanted us to dig deeper. They focus on data analysis and student assessment. And they wanted to take that back-end game-play data and see if they could use it to predict a child's math scores. So they made a neural net -- they essentially trained the computer to use this data, and here are the results. This is a subset of the children's standardized math scores. And this is the computer's prediction of each child's score, based on playing some Curious George games. The prediction is astonishingly accurate, especially considering the fact that these games weren't built for assessment. The team that did this study believes that games like these can teach us more about a child's cognitive learning than a standardized test can. What if games could reduce testing time in the classroom? What if they could reduce testing anxiety? How could they give teachers snapshots of insight to help them better focus their individualized learning?]]> 2017-12-15 15:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216514570 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216516209 2017-12-15 15:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216516209 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216516443 2017-12-15 15:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216516443 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216517040 2017-12-15 15:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216517040 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216517152 I don't think that kids under 8 are spending too much time on their devices because more and likely they are willing to play outside and then play with devices.]]> 2017-12-15 15:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216517152 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216517664 2017-12-15 15:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216517664 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216573417 kids get annoying and devices help parents calm them so there not so annoying and just 48 minutes is not a lot but if it keeps going up we will have a problem but this not only keeps them entertained it also can help them learn. You don't know what they're doing on it; they could be playing learning game. Even if they're aren't almost any game is educational.
 ]]> 2017-12-15 17:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216573417 https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216573503 I think it is okay because adults spend so much more time than children do and most likely after 48 minutes they will get board and do something else for a while.   ]]> 2017-12-15 17:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216573503 noelabra https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216574987 I THINK IT IS OK TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME ON IT]]> 2017-12-15 17:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_horn/nyqjp1mlue5j/wish/216574987