KineticCitySmartFoot

SmartFoot Dance Pad: Thinking with your Feet By Bob Hirshon, Senior Project Director, AAAS

What is AAAS?
Established in 1848
World’s largest general science organization
Publisher of Science, founded by Thomas Edison, the leading peer-reviewed science journal in the world
Originator of Project 2061 Benchmarks for Science Literacy , the foundational national science standards project
Mission to advance science and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people

Science
Founded in 1880
Available in print, Science Digital, and Science Online
Largest circulation of any multidisciplinary science journal:
131,000 individual and institutional subscribers
740,000 weekly readers leading peer-review journal
10,000 papers submitted each year; only 1 in 13 accepted
51% peer-reviewed original research; 49% news & other editorial features

Kinetic City
Fully interactive resource for kids 9 to 12 yrs. old
Benchmarks-based after-school program
Games, experiments, art, phys ed activities, and creative writing projects
Science learning online and offline
Winner of the 2004 Codie Award for Best Educational Software Solution

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In the Control Car, kids can select a Deep Delete virus to battle.
Each virus represents a Project 2061 Benchmark sub-chapter topic

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For each virus, or topic, there are five activities
The Mind Game is a computer game or simulation
Fab Lab is a hands on activity
Move Crew is a phys ed challenge
Smart Art is an art activity
Write Away is a creative writing exercise

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Mind Games are fun computer-based activities
Each is either a game or a science simulation

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After completing the five activities, children take the Mission to Vearth challenge to test their knowledge
Children win points in their on-line accounts by playing the games successfully

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In Smart Attack, children must select a box when a statement that matches the information in the box passes by.
Users can also gain extra time when a clock goes by, extra lives when a heart goes by, and extra points when a number goes by.
Clicking on a virus results in the loss of one life

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Individual point totals and ranks, as well as club point totals, appear in the Club Car
A scoreboard displays high scores of players around the world

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Official Kinetic City Clubs create their own Club Website
Each Club Website displays Club point totals, as well as the point totals for each Crew, or team

SmartFoot
While visiting our programmer, I noticed an eviscerated game pad...
Discussed programming it for Kinetic City use

SmartFoot
Upcoming high-profile event on Obesity and Nutrition

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So I thought, what if we combine this with this ???

SmartFoot
To do, that we’d need a field-tested, research-based curriculum to provide the content...

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We’d end up with something like this:

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Printed pads enroute from China, due May 20
Playing around with the game to make it faster and funner
Considering giving teachers the XML file to use their own content
Adapting Bug Blaster, too
Creating new games that provide feedback based on activity

SmartFoot
We’d love to work with Konami or other companies to optimize these and get these distributed more widely
We’d be happy to partner with other organizations on this, too, for distribution, research, etc.
We’d also like to work on other ideas and other platforms. We’ve already kicked around some WII controller ideas and will probably do something on that over the summer.
Ask me later about Science Gym and Science of Yo-Yos

Contact me with questions/comments/offers of large sums of money at:
[email_address]

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