National and international data show that learning and emotional well-being are directly related: children and adolescents learn better when they are healthy in an integral way. Mobile Brain’s solution was created to provide an evidence-based indicator that integrates these two facets of cognitive development — learning and well-being — giving educators more precise information to guide interventions more effectively. Our goal is to impact education networks at scale, promoting a system more committed to Holistic Education and to creating healthier learning environments for all.
Our innovation in practice takes place through a structured story collection protocol, carried out using a digital application specially developed for this purpose. During the session, the child is shown three images with positive emotional content and is invited to spontaneously tell a story for each one, in a welcoming environment, free from interference, and supported by the sensitive mediation of the facilitator. The oral narratives are recorded and automatically transcribed by artificial intelligence, then analyzed using graph theory, which represents the sequence of words as a network of connections. From this analysis, we generate the Narrative Complexity Index and the Emotional Narrative Complexity Index, which help us understand both the cognitive organization of language and the emotional aspects expressed in the stories. This protocol, grounded in over a decade of research in computational neuroscience, combines methodological rigor, advanced technology, and sensitive listening, offering a playful, standardized, and scientifically grounded way to assess children’s cognitive and linguistic development.
We currently have more than 14,000 story collections carried out across Brazil, with operations in multiple sectors: municipal and state school networks, public and private institutions, and partners from the educational third sector. This broad scope of action allows us to assess the effectiveness of the innovation across different educational contexts and, most importantly, within the diversity that characterizes the Brazilian educational landscape.
Over more than a decade of developing the solution, we have advanced our research by adding correlations between the indices and the Brazilian national curriculum — the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC). This has allowed us to establish a stronger dialogue with the educational sector, highlighting possibilities for interventions related to cognitive development in language, as well as aspects connected to Whole-Child Education and the development of socio-emotional competencies.
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