Name
Title | ||
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Zydeco: using mobile and web technologies to support seamless inquiry between museum and school contexts |
Abstract | ||
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Museums and other out-of-school settings, are ideal contexts for children to engage in authentic scientific inquiry. However, students need support to successfully do inquiry outside of the classroom, and to make connections between what they are learning in and outside of school. Zydeco is a new system that aims to support students in seamlessly conducting inquiry across contexts. Zydeco includes an online web component that allows students to define goals, questions, and categorical information for their science investigations. This information is uploaded to a handheld device, which allows students to photograph, tag, and annotate information in a museum. Students can then access their museum work in the classroom to complete their investigations. Here we describe the Zydeco system, highlighting strategies for addressing challenges of mediating inquiry across class and museum contexts. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1145/1810543.1810564 | IDC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
ideal context,categorical information,annotate information,handheld device,museum work,mediating inquiry,school context,museum context,authentic scientific inquiry,seamless inquiry,new system,zydeco system,web technology,mobile devices,scaffolding,mobile device | Informal learning,Categorical variable,Computer science,Upload,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Learner centered design,Multimedia | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.79 | 3 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clara Cahill | 1 | 48 | 5.37 |
| Alex Kuhn | 2 | 58 | 7.03 |
| Shannon Schmoll | 3 | 42 | 3.72 |
| Alex Pompe | 4 | 56 | 3.89 |
| Chris Quintana | 5 | 214 | 36.25 |