Paper Info
Title
Technology for promoting scientific practice and personal meaning in life-relevant learning
Abstract
Children often report that school science is boring and abstract. For this reason, we have developed Life-relevant Learning (LRL) environments to help learners understand the relevance that scientific thinking, processes, and experimentation can have in their everyday lives. In this paper, we detail findings that aim to increase our understanding of the ways in which technology can support learners' scientific practice and their personal meaning in LRL through the integration of two mobile apps into an LRL environment. Our analysis of the artifacts created in these systems show that technology must strike a balance between structured scaffolds and flexible personal design to support learners' scientifically meaningful experiences. Our data suggests that integration of media forms and mobile technology can provide creative ways for learners to express their scientific thinking, make artifacts of their personally meaningful experiences, and individualize artifacts in scientifically meaningful ways.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2307096.2307114
IDC
Keywords
Field
DocType
life-relevant learning,mobile apps,meaningful experience,scientific thinking,flexible personal design,lrl environment,personal meaning,scientific practice,mobile technology,meaningful way,mobile computing,mobile computer
Mobile computing,Mobile technology,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Mobile apps
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.74
13
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tamara Clegg18413.99
Elizabeth Bonsignore224026.41
Jason Yip318426.10
Helene Gelderblom4709.19
Alex Kuhn5587.03
Tobin Valenstein690.74
Becky Lewittes7111.78
Allison Druin83110375.37