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In the Learning Moments CD, Children with Learning Challenges, one of the ten video clips follows Teddy as he experiments with building a ramp.  George Forman, creator of Videatives, makes this comment on ramp building:

"At this point we should pause and think about the way that Teddy shifts back and forth between making a ramp that works (a functional orientation) and creating an arrangement of blocks to have a definite pattern (a design orientation).  Young children often do this.  Sometimes a child will place a block because it closes a gap in a roadway and the car will roll better.  Sometimes a child will place a block because it replicates or completes a design, such as making both sides symmetrical.  This interplay between function and design causes the child to accidentally invent: sometimes a new solution precipitated by a design placement; sometimes a new design precipitated by a functional placement."

You can view the video clip, Teddy Builds a Ramp, as well as read all of Forman's commentary on the clip.

Learning Moments CDs (for use on a computer) present real-life video files that are the perfect complement to workshops, lectures, and online courses on how young children learn through play. They make general principles of child development and early education come to life by revealing children's natural process of discovery, invention, and learning.

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