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[[File:Recall-icon.svg]]
[[File:Recall-icon.svg]]
The Recall Activity is a series of three memory games, each of increasing difficulty.
The Recall Activity is a series of four memory games, each of increasing difficulty.
[[File:Recall.png]]
[[File:Recall.png]]
== Where to get Recall ==
== Where to get Recall ==
The Story activity is ''soon to be'' available for download from the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Sugar activity portal]: [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4567 Recall]
The Story activity is ''soon to be'' available for download from the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Sugar Activity Library]: [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4567 Recall]
The source code is available on [http://git.sugarlabs.org/recall the Sugar Labs Gitorious server].
The source code is available on [https://github.com/sugarlabs/recall/ github].
== Using Recall ==
== Using Recall ==
Simply launch the activity and the games will begin.
Simply launch the activity and the games will begin.
Each game has six levels of difficultly. As you complete a level – by getting four correct answers in a row – you automatically advance to the next level. Once you complete Level 6 in Game 1, you advance to Game 2. Similarly, completing Level 6 of Game 2 causes you to advance to Game 3.
Each game has six levels of difficultly. As you complete a level – by getting four correct answers in a row – you automatically advance to the next level.
The first game prompts the learner to observe which images are repeated in the grid. It starts easy, with just three images, but as more images are added, it becomes more challenging.
The first game prompts the learner to observe which images are repeated in the grid. It starts easy, with just three images, but as more images are added, it becomes more challenging.
[[File:Recall-game-3-question.png|300px]]
[[File:Recall-game-3-question.png|300px]]
A fourth game is similar to Game 2, except the images are in color.
[[File:Recall-color.png|300px]]
[[File:Recall-color-2.png|300px]]
=== The Toolbars ===
=== The Toolbars ===
:from left to right
:from left to right
;Activity-toolbar Button: opens standard Sugar activity toolbar
;Activity-toolbar Button: opens standard Sugar activity toolbar
;Reload-images Button: loads a new game at the current level
;Repeat-game Button: loads a new 'repeat' game
;Missing-game Button: loads a new 'missing' game
;N-back game Button: loads a new 'n-back' game
;Color Missing-game Button: loads a new 'missing' game using color
;Label: special instructions appear here
;Label: special instructions appear here
;Stop Button: used to exit the activity
;Stop Button: used to exit the activity
== Learning with Recall ==
== Learning with Recall ==
Recall is a fun way to practice observation and memory skills. It is based in part on some of the observations and claims made by memory researchers (See [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?_r=2&ref=magazine]).
Recall is a fun way to practice observation, attention, and memory skills. Two types of games are available: attentional retraining and n-back.
Games 1, 2, and 4 are variants of "attentional retraining". The task is to observe randomly presented symbols and subsequently recall some difference, such as a repeated symbol (Game 1) or a newly introduced symbol (Games 2 and 4). It is theorized that cognitive retraining can generalize to attentional processes employed in every-day life ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentional_retraining]).
Game 3 is an n-back game. "Games based on N-back tests require players to remember the location of a symbol or the sound of a particular letter presented just before (1-back), the time before last (2-back), the time before that (3-back) and so on. Some researchers say that playing games like this may actually make us smarter." ([http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?_r=2&ref=magazine]).
== Extending Recall ==
== Extending Recall ==
== Credits ==
== Credits ==
Recall was written and is maintained by [[User:Walter]].
Recall was written and is maintained by [[User:Walter]] , [[User:Ignacio_Rodríguez]]
Most of the images are from the [http://thenounproject.com/ The Noun Project].
Most of the images are from the [http://thenounproject.com/ The Noun Project].
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