Free cookies as an incentive not to use the smartphone during lectures
Second-year student of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania Emily Turner using the specially developed iOS application Pocket Points is trying to solve the problem of using smartphones during class. The student audience, buried in a lecture on the screens of their gadgets, is unlikely to take something useful out of class: Emily intends to fix it, motivating young people with free food and discounts in the bookstores of the university.
Having installed the application on your smartphone, the student should start the class and start the screen of the gadget when the class starts. If in 20 minutes he doesn’t have a desire to check new messages on Facebook, one point will be added to the student’s personal account. If the shutter speed is not enough, the application, noting the fact of unlocking the screen, will leave the bill unchanged. It is possible to score points faster: if several students launch the application at the same time (in other words, they start to study), then the 20-minute gap is reduced.
Example of Pocket Points
For 15 points earned, you can get two cookies for free at a local cafe, for 10 points in a university bookstore a student is given a 15% discount. In the future, Emily plans to add to the list of rewards more institutions and more awards that can be obtained.
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In order to avoid fraud, Pocket Points keeps track of its location - leaving the smartphone locked outside the campus will not work.
A study by economists Jacob Wigdor and Helen Ladd, who track students' academic performance over five years, has shown that computer use in teaching can be greatly overestimated. The authors of the work noted that adolescents who study in middle classes and who have access to a computer demonstrate a decrease in mathematical and reading skills in comparison with those who in the old way manage with books.
Having installed the application on your smartphone, the student should start the class and start the screen of the gadget when the class starts. If in 20 minutes he doesn’t have a desire to check new messages on Facebook, one point will be added to the student’s personal account. If the shutter speed is not enough, the application, noting the fact of unlocking the screen, will leave the bill unchanged. It is possible to score points faster: if several students launch the application at the same time (in other words, they start to study), then the 20-minute gap is reduced.
Example of Pocket Points
For 15 points earned, you can get two cookies for free at a local cafe, for 10 points in a university bookstore a student is given a 15% discount. In the future, Emily plans to add to the list of rewards more institutions and more awards that can be obtained.
')
In order to avoid fraud, Pocket Points keeps track of its location - leaving the smartphone locked outside the campus will not work.
A study by economists Jacob Wigdor and Helen Ladd, who track students' academic performance over five years, has shown that computer use in teaching can be greatly overestimated. The authors of the work noted that adolescents who study in middle classes and who have access to a computer demonstrate a decrease in mathematical and reading skills in comparison with those who in the old way manage with books.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/376143/
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