Community Embraces New Word Game at Mid-Year Play Day This past Sunday, families at Takoma Park’s Seventh Annual Mid-Year Play Day had the opportunity to experience OtherWordly for the first time. Our educational language game drew curious children and parents to our table throughout the afternoon. Words in Space Several children gathered around our iPads […]
Read moreImparting greater understanding through object manipulation.
Problem
An important component of understanding how something works is being able to dissect it into its vital components.
Solution
A web site can lend the sense of taking something apart or understanding how something works.
Discussion
To optimize learning, a presentation should not be linear, like a slide show. Rather, visitors should be able to freely interact with objects, and potentially make mistakes.
Online visitors can experience interaction with objects using independent and dependent variables; modeling and altering reality; interactive appliances; and real-life experiments.