• Users are awarded points for doing tasks within a sequence
• Encourage users to answer questions from other users, this can be one of the tasks that points get awarded for
• Points = Badges

Tasks

• Asking questions
• Answering questions
• Uploading photos of projects
• Uploading code
• Commenting on content
• Commenting on other people’s content

Does it matter if it’s any good?

Mitra’s “method of the grandmother” was enough to increase scores of children learning in a self-directed way – i.e. Standing there and being encouraging.

“I said, “I’ll tell you what. Use the method of the grandmother.”

So she says, “What’s that?”

I said, “Stand behind them. Whenever they do anything, you just say, ‘Well, wow, I mean, how did you do that? What’s the next page? Gosh, when I was your age, I could have never done that.’ You know what grannies do.”

So she did that for two more months. The scores jumped to 50 percent. Kallikuppam had caught up with my control school in New Delhi, a rich private school with a trained biotechnology teacher. When I saw that graph I knew there is a way to level the playing field.”

The principle is rewarding the activities that lead to learning as learning doesn’t happen in a linear fashion and a defined time.