Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples , Mike; Wright , Michael; Martin , Hazel; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Benford , Steve; Crook , Charles; Greenhalgh, Chris and O'Malley, Claire
(2008).
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Abstract
The paper describes a project to support personal inquiry learning with handheld and desktop technology between formal and informal settings. It presents a trial of the technology and learning across a school classroom, sports hall, and library. The main aim of the study was to incorporate inquiry learning activities within an extended school science environment in order to investigate opportunities for technological mediations and to extract initial recommendations for the design of mobile technology to link inquiry learning across different contexts. A critical incident analysis was carried out to identify learning breakdowns and breakthroughs that led to design implications. The main findings are the opportunities that a combination of mobile and fixed technology bring to: manage the formation of groups, display live visualisations of student and teacher data on a shared screen to facilitate motivation and personal relevance, incorporate broader technical support, provide context-specific guidance on the sequence, reasons and aims of learning activities, offer opportunities to micro-sites for reflection and learning in the field, to explicitly support appropriation of data within inquiry and show the relation between specific activities and the general inquiry process.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2008 The Authors |
| Keywords: | inquiry learning; 21st century science; contextual learning |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 31290 |
| Depositing User: | Mike Sharples |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2012 12:17 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2016 01:14 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/31290 |
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