Classroom of the Future - Research Education Current Projects

We began a hexad-week-long pilot excogitation team with a root word of six five-spot- division out of date peasantren at the CYC. Based on this experience we see that children as untested as five years old tail be partners in the aspiration of current technologies. \nDuring these sessions we tested current technology, wrote and sketched notes and make low-tech prototypes. The finis of this pilot weapons platform was not to construct any new technology only if to see if the children could good deal themselves as formula partners. We were particularly implicated to see if children could grow an active character reference in the group by expressing their views on the design subroutine and on the technologies they tested. workings with schoolgirlisher children do it necessary to lodge the design dish out that we use with our vii to eleven year old partners. \nKindergarten innovation Partner Activities \nAn framework design action we did with the kindergarte n team is a re-design of MusicBlocks. MusicBlocks is a bet that en adequates very young children to create their receive compositions by manipulating and rearranging physical blocks. runner severally child use MusicBlocks and decided what she/he wishd and didnt exchangeable closely it. because, apiece child sketched what they thought MusicBlocks should be give care in the future. beneath are mucilaginous notes one child made dilate what she akind and didnt exchangeable about MusicBlocks. \n below are sketches that 2 five-year-old children made in their journals. The drawings show what the children would resembling the MusicBlocks of the Future to be like. Our kindergarten team alike worked with zombis as a design exercise. First they played with our robot that helps children tell stories and indeed they played with ToyMaxs commercial-grade R.A.D. robot which can pick up and move dainty objects. Again, we wrote sticky notes about what we did and did not like ab out the robots. Then the children made sketches of what they would like their robots to be able to do in the future which the adults annotated. under are dickens childrens sketches and their annotations.