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\"\"The Shadow Box is a tangible computing project that exploits visual association and auditory clues to teach children pre-reading skills. An augmentation of the wooden alphabet blocks traditionally used to teach children letter identification, the Shadow box focuses on word-object relationships, allowing children to explore the higher level concept of word recognition in a fun and engaging environment. Through the process of matching words with their visual representations, children will explore the relationship between a word and its meaning, providing the conceptual framework necessary to acquire higher level pre-reading skills leading up to phonemic awareness. By permitting children to explore reading independent of a parent or teacher, a sense of play is maintained and the benefits of constructivist learning are enhanced.<\/p>\n

The Shadow Box consists of three primary components: the shadow box itself, picture blocks, and word blocks. In order to activate the Shadow Box, a single block or a matching pair of blocks must be placed inside the box.\u00a0 If the child inserts a word block, the box pronounces and spells the word and prompts the child to look for its matching picture by projecting a static shadow image of the object.\u00a0 A similar sequence is initiated when a child inserts a picture object during which the child is prompted to find the matching word block. When the child successfully places a picture block and its corresponding word block inside the Shadow Box, they are rewarded with an animated movie clip.<\/p>\n

Project Site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Shadow Box is a tangible computing project that exploits visual association and auditory clues to teach children pre-reading skills.Through the process of matching words with their visual representations, children will explore the relationship between a word and its meaning, providing the conceptual framework necessary to acquire higher level pre-reading skills leading up to phonemic awareness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"\"\"The Shadow Box is a tangible computing project that exploits visual association and auditory clues to teach children pre-reading skills. An augmentation of the wooden alphabet blocks traditionally used to teach children letter identification, the Shadow box focuses on word-object relationships, allowing children to explore the higher level concept of word recognition in a fun and engaging environment. Through the process of matching words with their visual representations, children will explore the relationship between a word and its meaning, providing the conceptual framework necessary to acquire higher level pre-reading skills leading up to phonemic awareness. By permitting children to explore reading independent of a parent or teacher, a sense of play is maintained and the benefits of constructivist learning are enhanced.\n\nThe Shadow Box consists of three primary components: the shadow box itself, picture blocks, and word blocks. In order to activate the Shadow Box, a single block or a matching pair of blocks must be placed inside the box.\u00a0 If the child inserts a word block, the box pronounces and spells the word and prompts the child to look for its matching picture by projecting a static shadow image of the object.\u00a0 A similar sequence is initiated when a child inserts a picture object during which the child is prompted to find the matching word block. When the child successfully places a picture block and its corresponding word block inside the Shadow Box, they are rewarded with an animated movie clip.\n\nProject Site<\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux_design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levisohn.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}