Connected Learning Summit 2019

In this workshop, participants will explore playful and immersive digital projections and use Scratch code to craft an interactive story or narrative. Participants will actively bridge physical and digital worlds by using projectors, webcams and Scratch to program playful interactions, using common tools and technologies available in many learning environments. With these tools, participants interact directly with the projected animations through their bodies and other materials, and will collaborate to create transformative, full-body immersive environments. The workshop will provide participants with a context in which they can reflect on how a playful attitude can drive exploration, curiosity, and learning in the physical and digital world. At the end of this session, we will facilitate a conversation about how this experience fits into everyone’s unique learning contexts and discuss different approaches to the use of digital and analog technologies and their possible hybridization.

This workshop is hosted by a collective of educators and researchers from diverse learning environments who have a common curiosity for immersive, mixed-reality experiences. We are educators from the Exploratorium, the Scratch Team at MIT, Reggio Children Foundation in Reggio Emilia, and Future University Hakodate in Japan.