Reflection Sciences and Kiko Labs Partner to Pair Digital Tools to Measure and Improve School Readiness Reflection Sciences, a education technology company founded by University of Minnesota researchers, and Kiko Labs, the San Francisco developer of Kiko's Thinking Time games, are partnering to…

Press Release - Kiko Labs Adds New Games and Desktop Access to Help Early Learners Build the Foundational Cognitive Skills Necessary for School Readiness Kiko’s Thinking Time, a neuroscience-based learning solution that helps build executive function and other cognitive skills, is now accessible o…

In May and June 2016, WestEd, a leading not-for-profit educational research agency, conducted a study to determine the feasibility of using Kiko's Thinking Time in the classroom. The goal of the study was to determine the extent to which Kiko's Thinking Time can be used within the requirements and…

On December 8th, 2015, we were invited by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, along with a select group of 20+ developers, to participate in a session on Games for Assessment. The timing of this event could not have been more perfect. The passage of the Every Student Succeeds…

The full text of the press release follows:. Scientific Learning Corp. Partners with Kiko Labs to Help Pre-K Students Increase School Readiness Kiko’s Thinking Time, a neuroscience-based learning solution for preschool students, targets memory, attention and cognitive skills to build school r…

This article was published on Scientific Learning's blog. Over the past few weeks, millions of children across the United States began kindergarten. Whether graduating from a full-day preschool or parent-led homeschool or something in between, children will transition into their first year of a…

We are thrilled to announce that Kiko Labs has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award! This is a follow up to the Phase I grant that we received in 2014 from the Department of Education. We could not be happier with the strong validation of our concept and the…

We're extremely thrilled to announce the arrival of our new app, Kiko's Thinking Time! We've been working feverishly around the clock to get everything just right for this launch. This app builds upon the success of our first product, Thinking Time, and includes substantially more content: 10…

Where in the World is Innovation in Education? Verizon announces 2014 finalists in Powerful Answers Award’s Education category. Kiko Labs is so excited and honored to be selected as one of 10 finalists for the Verizon’s 2014 Powerful Answers Award! As we emerge as finalists from over 1870 sub…

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is tracking various companies designing educational games; exploring their design processes, lessons learned, funding woes, strategic business decisions, and research findings. This initiative is featured on Games and Learning.org. We are grateful for the experience of…

Kiko Labs among 12 awardees of a grant by Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) for Fiscal Year 2014! We're honored to be one of the 12 businesses to be awarded a grant through the Department of Education's SBIR program in 2014. The program is a highly competitive program that…

We're excited and honored to be chosen as part of co.lab's second cohort - a group of seven startups deemed most promising in the edtech space. Full text of co.lab's press release follows: co.lab, the Edtech Accelerator Founded by NewSchools Venture Fund and Zynga.org, Announces Second Cohort SAN…

We're excited to share the news of our first product, Thinking Time, now available on the App Store. Research shows that cognitive skills like working memory, reasoning and flexibility predict children's success in school better than raw IQ. These skills are trainable. So we created an app that can…

Many of us have seen the famous marshmallow test. Put a kid in a room with a marshmallow in front of her. Tell her that if you're leaving for a few minutes, and if she waits for you to return without eating the marshmallow, she'll get another one. The results are pretty comical (and agonizing for…

One of the cool things about our work at Kiko Labs is that we get the privilege of working with academic experts like Jenny Thomson, who is a member of our Scientific Advisory Board. For the past 6 years, Jenny has been an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School where she researches and …

Research indicates that if you look at what predicts how well children will do later in school, more and more evidence is showing that executive functions actually predict success better than IQ tests. What are executive functions, exactly? In the brain, the ability to hold onto and work with …

I love playing memory cards with my three-year old daughter, if nothing more, just to see the look of concentration on her face as she tries to pick the right card, and the ensuing delight when she gets it right. I'd like to believe playing these sorts of thinking games is doing something more than…

Thank you for checking us out! It’s my first post and I thought I’d start by describing the intent behind this blog: As a parent, raising children in today’s technologically advanced world is both a challenge and a privilege. It’s a challenge because it’s tough to make informed choices without sifting t…