Grace Wardhana
About
Grace Wardhana is co-founder of Kiko Labs, an educational company that creates learning games based on principles of neuroscience. She has been PI on two IES SBIR grants and was recently named one of “Eight Innovators to Watch in 2016” by Smithsonian Magazine. Prior to founding Kiko Labs, Grace was Vice-President, Product at Gaia Interactive, a social gaming company. Her past life also included stints at Microsoft and McKinsey & Company. Grace holds an AB in Economics and MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Her research interests include game-based learning and assessment, as well as applying technology-infused learning to all facets of school readiness.
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A Game-Based Intervention to Promote Executive Function and Reasoning in Early Learning
This project will develop and test Kiko's Thinking Time, a series of game apps designed to strengthen children's cognitive skills related to executive functioning and reasoning. A principle objective of preschool is to prepare children for later success in school. Most programs focus on activities to support children's social and emotional development, and to strengthen pre-reading and mathematics competencies. Fewer programs explicitly focus on fostering children's executive function and re...
Federal funding program:
Contract number:
EDIES15C0022
Contract
A Game-Based Intervention to Promote Executive Function and Reasoning in Early Learning
The project team is developing a prototype of Thinking Time, a tablet-based app and game for early learners (ages 3- to 6-years-old) that provides cognitive training games based on neuropsychological research. Game play will be self-guided and adaptive, and will support the development of working memory, attention and impulse control, and flexibility. The goal is to promote academic readiness by scaffolding cognitive skills during the early years of heightened brain plasticity.
Federal funding program:
Contract number:
EDIES14C0047
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