<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"> "I've discovered that using internet access as a currency results in effective learning."</span><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Do you have some documentation regarding this assertion? I find it suspect.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>No documentation, but I'd say plenty of potential for future publications and research. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Historically, the idea of a credit-meter came second. I was still at work and my kids were home from school. I would send them emails with links to articles I wanted them to read. One day I saw my daughter's email account and all of my emails were unread. Imagine that :) So I made this JavaScript app which took an input file (pasted-together Wikipedia article, according to my own formatting conventions, for example) and parsed it back to the kid 1x paragraph at a time, first in complete form, then with a configurable percentage of words from the passage replaced with drop-down selections. So it's a "paragraph reconstruction" exercise. That app ensured that they read carefully. The effectiveness depends on the app, in general, not the currency. So I had an effective app but they weren't getting the most out of it, because it was a burden and they were being used as guinea pigs again, etc. Anyway, it wasn't much of mental leap from that point to conceive of a credit meter. Particularly because the app was html and the immediate first thing that happens is they pop another tab and start doing something else. Watching that happen, after so much hard work, resulted in credit-meter v0.1 within hours. And that did prove to be the magic, missing ingredient. Using it the first time after building v0.1 did feel like a scientific discovery. Maybe something analogous to breaking the speed of sound in an aircraft, where there's violent shaking in the build-up and then the threshold is crossed and everything is smooth ... the self-serve kiosk takes over and you're suddenly not at the center of any study-related drama anymore.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I am not sure that the nature of most Sugar Activities maps well to this model: most are tool-oriented as opposed to a specific set of tasks or achievements that can be marked as completed. Curious as to how we could map their use onto your model of measurement.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For sure, I see that too. I would certainly find a way to implement a goal with the Gears Activity, and several others. Maybe not all Sugar Activities can incorporate easily the concept of a goal, but going forward, all ideas for credit-earning activities that I can think of seem like they would also be suitable for use in the greater Sugarizer environment, so there's that. And with a working incentive system and careful "marketing" who knows? It could work really well and lead to all kinds of interesting new software. <br></div><div><br></div><div>-Charles<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">regards.</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">-walter</span></div></font></span><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-8659898444992670038gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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