The interactive River of Grass virtual reality exhibit is a large room stuffed from floor to ceiling with technology to give young children and their parents the experience of a fully animated interactive day in the Everglades.
Formula D Interactive. (2017 September 4). River of grass: virtual reality interactive everglades tunnel exhibit [Video post]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9tK4W0xevs
Immersive Experiences for Children and their Parents
Using EBSCOhost (through the Full Sail online library research database) and an online article, identify three to five learning engagement principles based upon your research. Explain in your own words, (150–250 per principle), how immersive learning environments are effective in engaging young students through kinesthetic play, as a comment to this blog. Remember to use proper APA-style formatting for in-text citations and references in your writing.
1. Animation The animation is considered a visceral level engagement experience, according to Peters (2013). When teamed with today's digital technology, such as projections, animations, and interactive activities (interactive multimedia environment), as depicted in the video, we are engaging the student at multiple levels. These type of learning strategies provides the student the motivation in such interesting ways to keep them immersed by promoting interaction and integration of knowledge while learning as they interact with the multimedia environment. The artful design of cartoonish elements makes it an ideal resource for kids to keep them even more engaged as our human brain tends to be attracted to cartoons, especially at an early age. Cartoons are a more simplified example of visuals an…