Monday, March 9, 2009

Siftables: Toy Blocks that Think

Wait until you're about 5 minutes in until they demo the music application.
You can assign sounds to each tiles and arrange them into a sequence. Tilting the tiles can fade the sounds in and out. It's cool.


About this talk:
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?


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