EdMotion Inc published a meta-analysis of 52 studies showing that embodied vocabulary learning improved outcomes, with the most consistent factor being whether movement meaningfully represented what students were learning.
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“A new meta-analysis of 52 studies found that embodied vocabulary learning improved outcomes, but the most consistent factor was not how much students moved. It was whether the movement meaningfully represented what they were learning.”
— Alton Delane|EdMotion Inc team
Company
EdMotion Inc
Provider of 3D embodied learning software solutions for K-12 schools
- Industry
- Software Development
- Location
- Cary, US
- Company size
- 5 employees
EdMotion's SMALLab is a one-of-a-kind, 3D interactive classroom experience in which students participate and collaborate with classmates in standards-based embodied learning activities. Initially funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and Intel Research, SMALLab produced an 86% increase in student understanding, a 6.7X increase in student to student collaboration, and a 33% increase in teacher performance.
Founded 2021