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situatedness, haptics and kinesthetics

I'm reading the amazing article now from SMALLab - very helpful, but what concerns me is the lack of discussion regarding context/situation...what is the role of the location in students experiences. It is not even mentioned....the environment, whether or not it's important, or had an effect on the students who were studied....the relevance to kinesthetic and haptic learning interactions. And yet in the paper they emphasise the importance of recognising not only the social but also the physical context, referencing papert and Dourish...both of whom are all about not only social but also physical context . How might we begin to

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