From Charles Peirce to Jean Piaget to David Kolb in the 1980s, learning has been understood as something anchored in action and experience. Researchers like Sian Beilock, Carly Kontra, and Susan Goldwin-Meadow have also demonstrated the power of embodied learning, in which gesture or bodily involvement proves especially effective at fostering durable memories or learning. The Digital Domain is embodied learning kicked up a few notches.

Imagine interacting with a computer, not in the abstract realm of virtual space, but in the real here-and-now tactility of actual space. Imagine dancing with orbiting planets to viscerally understand their trajectories, or interacting with forces to understand gravity or oscillating springs, or interacting with light to understand it’s properties.

A company called SMALLab has taken abstract computerized learning and thrust it into the physical realm.

https://www.smallablearning.com/smallab