Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Visual learners meet visual technologies (10 Aug 2004) Quorum Tools is another technology that develops the affordances of the data projector. This tool allows multiple cursors to annotate or draw; a completely democratic input method for equal contribution. Each student uses a stylus on an individual graphics pad that adds to a shared projected image. This technology was initially designed for business meetings but is now being developed for classroom use at Furze Infants School in Romford. Visual display technologies can help to create immersive learning environments that afford greater involvement and absorption of the learner. Seymour Papert gave the example of learning French by being in France and related this to learning maths by being absorbed in maths. If the environment is apposite, then students are able to become absorbed within the learning activity and, following Papert's theory, will be in a greater position to develop understanding. VDTs may help to offer the opportunity to create immersive environments through rich visual imagery. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art31.htm Read 114 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: WIED : a Web modelling language for modelling architectural-level information flows     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy