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iPad pilot program helps El Monte students learn before using device to play games The El Monte City School District has partnered with a unique learning app called "Learn It To Earn It" that allows children to play games on an iPad, but only if they complete a set of educational exercises on the device first.

Originally, when we began this project, we started out with children earning different amounts of time (much higher than they are now). Over time, we’ve been looking into user usage data and tweaked these values to 75 minutes for a 100% score, 45 minutes for a 90-99% score, and 30 minutes for an 80-89% score. When tuning rewards for children, it’s important to keep in mind that there is a balance that should be had. Our average time we saw spent on exercises was about 25 minutes and as such, we decided that a 3:1 ratio would be ideal for a perfect score. Too much time given, and it removes the incentive to study. We saw that children would complete an exercise or two and continue on to game the whole day away. On the opposite side of the coin, too little time is disheartening for children. Rewarding too little time saw a huge drop off in user activity as the child no longer had any desire to use their devices. . .
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