![]() ![]() ![]() Which is all very interesting when you consider that Zoombinis was actually an adaptation of Tabletop, a data visualization tool developed in the early 1990s by Chris Hancock, one of Osterweil's colleagues at the Cambridge, Mass.-based non-profit Technical Education Research Centers (TERC). "It was never to say, 'These are things kids must learn and we know we must teach them in this sequence.' We really were thinking about it as an entertainment game." "The goal was never to be curricular," Osterweil said. They allowed users to indulge their curiosity without the nagging requirement that they make their kids more competitive in school. Games of the era, including Zoombinis, reflected that.
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