E-learning app blocks Facebook until kids do math

irishtimes.com

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Irish tech startup Aftermath has developed an app that uses time on social networks as a reward for completing math questions. Carrot and stick.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1015/breaking48.html

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It could be indeed. Every time you try to access Facebook.com, twitter.com or Hacker News, you'd be redirected to a web-based IDE and asked to code. For every line of code completed, you'd earn 1 minute of play time.

Interesting and innovative concept. The concept could be used in workplace environment also.

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