Enhancing Spatial Thinking Through Playful Online Training from Elementary School Through University

Günter Maresch
University of Salzburg, Salzburg

This workshop will introduce participants to the two free learning platforms, RIF4students and RIF3.0, from both the teachers’ and students’ perspectives, and provide hands-on experience with them. The workshop will also begin by discussing the importance of fostering spatial ability from the perspectives of society and science. To date, more than 6 million exercises have been completed on these two platforms by over 170,000 learners from 64 countries worldwide. A wide variety of interactive exercises designed to foster and assess learners’ spatial awareness are available to anyone interested in numerous languages.