A very nice summary of some of the impact of the educational technology research in Open Lab can be found at Open Lab's "USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING FOR HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN" blog post
References
More about the research behind this work can be found in the following papers
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