Collaborative and Constructive Learning of Elementary School Children in Experiental Learning Spaces along the Virtuality Continuum

Learning is an active, constructive and collaborative process, where people construct know ledge from their experiences in the world. Especially children need to learn through their senses and through physical activity. However, there are few experiental learning environments for school children available, which involve the senses and physical activity. Reasons put forward for this situation are the nature of the concepts to be learned and partly the lack of manipulative learning material. This contribution introduces a collaborative and constructive learning space for elementary school children designed along the virtuality continuum. It was designed through recent teaching experiments with elementary school children. The learning space itself is actively, collaboratively and constructively designed by the children themselves and allows making semiotic learning experiences during interaction with each other and with elements of the learning space along the virtuality continuum.