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Scanlon, E.; Anastopoulou, S.; Kerawalla, L. and Mulholland, P.
(2011).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00414.x
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.
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- Item ORO ID
- 27251
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1365-2729
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set 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 or School
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Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood and Youth
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood, Youth and Sport
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
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Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Childhood Youth and Sport Group (CYSG)
Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) - Copyright Holders
- © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Depositing User
- Eileen Scanlon