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"While I'm here at the LAUNCH Education &amp;amp; Kids conference, I've already seen quite a few interesting companies that hope to bring more technology to schools.  There's a nice mix of companies who want to serve both administrators as well as the students who attend classes.\r\n\r\nOne of the most interesting demonstrations that I've seen is from a company called SMALLab Learning which has a product that it calls &amp;quot;Flow&amp;quot;, which brings Xbox Kinect to classrooms with a series of learning software and games.\r\n\r\nThe company has a list of interesting investors, including the Bill Gates Foundation.  Here's how SMALLabs explains its Flow product:\r\n\r\nStudents use their hands in real 3D space to manipulate images, sounds, text, and graphics. This kinesthetic engagement opens new pathways to learning.\r\n\r\nClearly, bringing game mechanics and devices to a school environment grabs the interest of kids of any age.  \r\n\r\nCheck out a few demos of the types of thing Flow can do:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56PZZD9FAM&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeom8-MvErw&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded\r\n\r\nThe company says that students using its products are seeing 20% test score increases, which is extremely impressive.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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