Construction Toys
Construction Toy desiderata:
- Power
- Ease of Use
- Simplicity
- Structures
Construction Toys - types
- Blocks:
- Interlocking Blocks
- piled blocks
- architectural
- block-log elements
- Beam and Beam / beam and bolt
- Hub and Rod / connector and strut
- Magnetic gizmos
- Geodesics
- Buckyball
- Panels
Modes of constructor interaction with the material:
- basic motor and cognitive with trial-and-error planning.
- directed construction with constrained planning
- spontaneous construction with creative planning
NEXT: Interlocking Blocks (think Lego)