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Montessori-Inspired Manipulatives | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By TheFancy on February 24, 2010. Out of all their design guidelines, I find the “Level of Abstraction” criterion the most exciting. To quote:. 2) Level of Abstraction – maintain a high level of abstraction of the constructed simulations and structures so concreteness would come from a child’s analogies rather than a structure’s visual form (e.g. the constructed creation should not look like something familiar from real-life). It is this gap in understanding that I am inte...
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Think Geek = Best Thing Ever? | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Think Geek = Best Thing Ever? Posted in Inspirational Toys. By TheFancy on March 9, 2010. I just came across Think Geek: Stuff for Smart Masses. I’m obsessed with their toys. Here are a few examples:. Example of Super Mario Theme for the box:. Quadrilla Music Melody Composer:. They also sell fun instruments like the Stylophone and an updated and small version of the Tenori-on. Things like this make life worth living. Check out this Digital Recording Station for KIDS:.
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DAP Poster Session | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By TheFancy on April 13, 2010. Tangible Musical Interfaces for Children. Seth Garrison / First Poster Session. 8211; Coined by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer in the paper Tangible Bits. 8211; TUI’s refer to devices that augment the real physical world by coupling digital information to everyday physical objects and environments. 8211; Intended to bridge the gap between the physical environment and digital technologies. Examples TUI’s in Music:. 8211; Mozart Magical Cube.
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reacTable | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Posted in Inspirational Toys. By TheFancy on February 23, 2010. A pretty complex interface utilizing reacTIVision. As soon as any puck is placed on the surface, it is illuminated and starts to interact with the other neighboring pucks, according to their positions and proximity. These interactions are visible on the table surface which acts as a screen, giving instant feedback about what is currently going on in the Reactable turning music into something visible and ta...
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Hayes Raffle – Sculpting Behavior Thesis | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Hayes Raffle – Sculpting Behavior Thesis. Posted in General Ideas. By TheFancy on February 23, 2010. I just came across this thesis that makes a cogent connection between constructivist theories and “tangible user interfaces.”. This abstract concisely defines the motivation behind my own investigations:. You can preview the entire thesis on MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Groups publication site. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Block Jam | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Toys: Good and Bad. By TheFancy on February 24, 2010. Let me start by saying that Block Jam. It is an inviting, accessible and modular interface that allows multiple users to “create” and combine complex musical sequences. 8221; as a desired user experience. In this light, it is less of a pedagogical tool than it is a breaking down of the traditional barriers inherent in music production. It removes the necessity of what Peter Webster. Tagged with: Block Jam. Address never...
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Body Tone (1) | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Posted in General Ideas. By TheFancy on February 23, 2010. I presented this piece last semester as the final project for Advanced Computer Music Comp. It will be included on the upcoming Polyphaisic. Release — a surround sound DVD featuring video work by various artists. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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reacTogon | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Posted in General Ideas. By TheFancy on February 23, 2010. You can read about it on make:online. It’s fascinating. if i had the chance, i would play with it for hours. But could i afford it or access to it? Can we make a manipulative-on-a-budget? And if so, how? In other words, how do you make knowing how something works the same as knowing how to use it? Tagged with: affordability design. Laquo; Look Ma! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Build a website...
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A History of Manipulatives in Education | Electronic Arms
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. A History of Manipulatives in Education. By TheFancy on February 28, 2010. Johann Heinrich Pesalozzi (1746-1827): “advocates for ‘hands-on-learning,’…asserted that students need to learn through their senses and through physical activity, arguing for ‘things before words, concrete before abstract.'”. Friedrich Froebel: creates first kindergarten in 1837. Influenced by Pestalozzi, he created a set of 20 “gifts”. Jean Piaget: “provided an epistemological foundation for...
