{"id":793,"date":"2011-05-25T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2011-05-25T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:18:31","slug":"the-pieces-for-educational-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-pieces-for-educational-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The pieces for educational software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who<\/strong> do you need in order to make outstanding educational software?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artistic and child psychology experts from children&#8217;s TV<\/li>\n<li>Curriculum designers and subject experts from textbooks<\/li>\n<li>Interaction designers and programmers from computer games and apps<\/li>\n<li>Teachers who know the kids and can test prototypes with them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What <strong>pieces<\/strong> do you need to bring together?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Psychological: &#8220;flow&#8221;, storyline, context<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic: beautiful, interesting, simple<\/li>\n<li>Emotional: for a purpose<\/li>\n<li>Reliable: solid programming<\/li>\n<li>Convenient: internet, app store<\/li>\n<li>Low-cost: software product that runs on widely-available devices<\/li>\n<li>Effective: learning goals are met<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/can-software-tutors-reform-education\/\">disruption<\/a> in education takes hold, software with all of these pieces will prove very popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who do you need in order to make outstanding educational software? Artistic and child psychology experts from children&#8217;s TV Curriculum designers and subject experts from textbooks Interaction designers and programmers from computer games and apps Teachers who know the kids and can test prototypes with them What pieces do you need to bring together? Psychological: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-pieces-for-educational-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The pieces for educational software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}