MOVE 2 LEARN
Move2Learn is an international research-practitioner collaborative project, investigating how interactive museum exhibits can be designed to help young children aged 3-6 years express, communicate, and develop their scientific thinking.
Our project looks at what types of sensory experiences and physical actions are meaningful for developing science ideas, and ways we can encourage these through both the design of interactive exhibits as well as through facilitation, affirming and supporting family interactions that in turn can impact opportunities for all children.
MOVE 2 LEARN
Move2Learn is an international research-practitioner collaborative project, investigating how interactive museum exhibits can be designed to help young children aged 3-6 years express, communicate, and develop their scientific thinking.
Our project looks at what types of sensory experiences and physical actions are meaningful for developing science ideas, and ways we can encourage these through both the design of interactive exhibits as well as through facilitation, affirming and supporting family interactions that in turn can impact opportunities for all children.
This material is based upon work supported under a collaboration between the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Wellcome Trust, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via a grant from the NSF (NSF Grant 1646940) and a grant from the Wellcome Trust with ESRC (Wellcome Trust Grant 206205/Z/17/Z).
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of NSF, the Wellcome Trust, or ESRC. This website is hosted by The University of Edinburgh.
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The Move2Learn research team share key findings from their research of embodied learning through a new animation.
Move2Learn research team poster presentation, AERA 2021 conference.
Andrew Manches and Alexia Revueltas Roux visit a local primary school to talk about their work.
On Monday 27th January, Andrew Manches and Claire Sowton (UoE) Sharon Macnab and Graham Rose from Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) were joined by Craig from PixelStag to test and discuss progress of the physical-digital exhibit designed through the Wellcome-Trust funded Children & Technology project ‘Co-creation of an embodied learning technology’ project.
Members of the Move2Learn project team, Andrew Manches and Claire Sowton, along with performer, Steven Dakers, will present an event as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2019 Summer events programme. The event will run twice on 23rd August, starting at 10am and 12.30pm
PIs Brown and Manches presented M2L at Science Learning+ Meeting, Feb 11, in Alexandria, Virginia
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Move2Learn research team poster presentation, AERA 2021 conference.
This virtual workshop was led by M2L team members Andrew Manches, Alexia Revueltas Roux, Karen Davies, Sharon MacNab, Sara Price and Minna Orvokki Nygren. Workshop goals included: increased awareness of diverse ways IDC research can have impact; increased critical understanding of challenges to building/sustaining impact; and critical reflection ways to increase impact of participants' research.
Video Analysis to Real-Time Observation of Adult-Child Interaction: The Challenge of Translation was presented in a virtual conference room at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2020 virtual conference.
The Move2Learn research team share key findings from their research of embodied learning through a new animation.
Paper titled "Designing ‘Embodied’ Science Learning Experiences for Young Children," by Move2Learn team members Rhiannon Thomas Jha, Sara Price (University College London, United Kingdom), and Alison Motion (Learning Through Landscapes, United Kingdom), was given the Best Paper Award of the 7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, in Copenhagen, on 21 July, 2020.
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Project Dates
US: March 2017 – September 2020
UK: May 2017 – Oct 2021