Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children

by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Designed to distribute technology, to promote knowledge, and to generate social equality, the program populates laptops with books, educational materials, and games that all families can use and enjoy (see http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/uruguay.shtml). Scientists in South America designed games that children play to spur their love of learning and intellectual curiosity. Computer games are great for children if their content is created with learning science principles as a guide.14 While children are learning content, they do so in a fun, engaged, and collaborative way, with teachers and parents at their side. Uruguay’s top learning scientists have created apps that they can keep improving through research.