Editor
Elaine F. Walker
Editorial Board
J. Lawrence Aber Elliot Aronson Stephen J. Ceci David A. Dunning Morton Ann Gernsbacher Steven D. Hollon Richard J. Klimoski Ann M. Kring Elizabeth F. Loftus Henry L. Roediger, III Daniel L. Schacter Keith E. Stanovich Laurence Steinberg Robert J. Sternberg John A. Swets Carol Tavris Wendy M. Williams See the incoming Editorial Board
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  Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Volume 16, Number 1
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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University), Jennifer M. Zosh (Penn State University), Roberta Michnick Golinkoff (University of Delaware), James H. Gray (Sesame Workshop), Michael B. Robb (Saint Vincent College), and Jordy Kaufman (Swinburne University of Technology)
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Although many digital applications (apps) are described as being education- or learning-based, there are currently no science-based standards to guide this determination. This has left parents and teachers wondering how to tell the educational apps from the "educational" apps.
Reviewing research from the science of learning, PSPI authors Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jennifer M. Zosh, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, James H. Gray, Michael B. Robb, and Jordy Kaufman describe how apps can be designed to promote learning and how they can be evaluated for educational effectiveness.
This research indicates that the best learning experiences are mentally and intellectually active rather than passive, engaging but not distracting, socially interactive rather than solitary, and meaningful to the child. Apps that promote active, engaged, meaningful, and socially interactive experiences are more likely to lead to significant learning when embedded in an educational context that supports scaffolded exploration, questioning, and discovery in relation to well-defined learning goals.
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Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University
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Judging apps on these four factors, as well as whether the app has a stated learning goal, is a quick and easy way to compare the educational potential of different apps and to categorize them as educational, entertaining, or neither.
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