Developing an RL agent for cognitive impact

I'm sure the parents amongst us are familiar with the dilemma of handing your kid an iPad to watch YouTube and get a few minutes of rest, knowing it might not be the best pedagogical experience (even if we won't admit it publicly). To put this in a more serious manner, a study by Prof. Horowitz-Kraus seeks to examine the cognitive impact of this dilemma. An experiment was conducted in a number of kindergartens to determine whether a child's cognitive development is affected when a person reads him a story as opposed to when he watches the same story on a tablet. I would recommend reading the full articles, but in brief, unsurprisingly the child shows more cognitive improvement in his social and language skills when there is a social interaction compared to the interaction with the tablet. While most of these situations don't necessarily come from laziness, sometimes there are situations where we are just not able to have one-on-one experiences with the children, for instance in hospitals.