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Toy tiles that talk to each other

David Merrill · TED

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About

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?

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2009
Speaker
David Merrill
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Business and management, Art, architecture and design, Music, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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