Memorize + Sensors = Mesmerize?

In so many schools with XO laptops, one of the teachers' favorite activities is Memorize. It's a simple matching game where students and teachers can create cards to review vocabulary or match letters. Tiles can have writing, photos, and audio.

Since this activity is kid-friendly and creative, and the sensor-reading activity, Measure, is decidedly technical and imposing, I'm wondering whether sensors could be part of the matching game. The student clicks a card on their screen, it says stomach, they connect to a contact on posterboard, such as a marker on the large intestine, and the computer senses the match. There could also be a cheat-mode where sensing the poster reveals a matching photo, audio, or website on the student's computer.

Concept:


Before I leave, I want to have a talking map of South America.

March 18 Update talking map is working, thinking about adding website browser, too

In our future...

In our future, there is no technology. There is no non-technical, either -- even a piece of string or a droplet of water is wired.

There are people we meet	A student explains the water cycle
and things we build	Paraguay: students take apart laptops

How's that for a test post?

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Photo cc-by Bernie Innocenti at codewiz.org