Scanlon, E.; Anastopoulou, S.; Kerawalla, L. and Mulholland, P.
(2011).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00414.x |
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Abstract
The Personal Inquiry project is an investigation into the role that technologies can play in enabling effective inquiry. Whilst it is generally agreed that inquiry based learning has potential for student learning, especially in science, three main challenges remain. The first is to provide effective support for inquiry learning, for both students and teachers; the second is to be able to support inquiry learning across a range of contexts including formal settings such as classrooms and informal settings such as the home and the final challenge is to support inquiries that engage the students.This paper addresses how inquiry based activities for students and the teacher orchestration of such activities across time and contexts can be supported by technology, using scripting. Personalisation of the inquiries in terms of relevance and providing students with choice about the inquiries they carry out is an important part of the project’s objective to engage students. A framework for the inquiry learning process is presented and how this framework has influenced the design of the software nQuire is illustrated. Examples are drawn from trials with the software in several different settings with children working on science and geography investigations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
| ISSN: | 1365-2729 |
| Funders: | Technology Enhanced Learning program of the ESRC/EPSRC joint research council initiative. |
| Extra Information: | Accepted Jan 2011; first published online 10-05-2011 |
| Keywords: | inquiry-learning; mobile technology; personalization; scripting |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology Education and Language Studies > Childhood, Development and Learning Knowledge Media Institute |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 27251 |
| Depositing User: | Eileen Scanlon |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2011 15:31 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2012 14:39 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/27251 |
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