I subscribe to Sharing Good Practice from ictopus – which is always a fantastic source of inspiration. Thanks to Howard Lovell’s article in the current edition for this resource.
Poisson Rouge is a really high quality (and non-age-specific) site. Used alongside Basicmouse it will fit really well into the SLD curriculum. There is almost no text on the site. It consists of a series of games that fit together in the most intuitive and delightful way. The user guide describes the principles better than I could ever do:
There are no instructions on the site and there are some good reasons for that: most people, even adults, do not read instructions, children who cannot read will ignore written text anyhow, but most importantly for us, there is no need and in fact, instructions get in the way of the experience : the navigation through the various sections of the site is purposefully simple and intuitive, the functionalities within games are carefully thought out to afford a maximum of possibilities while keeping that special relationship to the real World.
When small children pick up objects, they invent new ways of holding and using them. Thus there is no right or wrong way of using anything on this site. It’s up to the children to find what they want and to grow their naturally exploring mind. We found that what they don’t discover straight away, they’ll find later, what they don’t know how to do at first, they’ll learn when they are ready and, as many of you know and/or have found out, that is extremely powerful and confidence building.
Take a look!
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