One particular moment in the Makeshop with the four year-olds stuck out to me. During the exploration of projectors, I saw each of the children sticking to one particular task. It wasn’t necessarily one thing about the projectors that piqued their interest, each child was drawn to something in particular. For one little boy, once he found that he could move the top light to change where the images were projected, he spent the rest of the session playing with that. For another little boy, it was continuously exploring what objects, how many, what kinds could be placed on the surface to be projected. While these things that caught their attention are different, the commonality between them is that they are all aspects of the task that hold depth. The combination of objects was endless, the ability to distort the images was unbounded; that’s what holds the children’s attention after initially sparking an interest. In addition, these individual tasks held meaning because it resulted in a larger-than-life product to the kids. Their actions contributed to the greater creation of that image being projected on the wall.
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