Paper Info
Title
The digital economy: a case study of designing for classrooms
Abstract
We present the results of an empirical study of elementary school classrooms and show how these results informed the design of a mobile web application for teachers to manage "digital economies" in their classrooms. A Classroom Economy is a program that aims to teach financial literacy while encouraging focus and on task behavior. The Digital Economy captures transaction data as students participate in a Classroom Economy, replacing paper-based transactions and record keeping. The design of the Digital Economy application builds on our own prior work in which we partnered with teachers to collaboratively design ubiquitous computing technologies for classrooms. Our design is based on our analysis of classroom observations, interviews with teachers, design workshops and a usability study of a prototype application. We consider three major guidelines for designing for classrooms: classroom flow, individual assessments, and peer groups. We describe the negotiation of these guidelines when designing for the management and curriculum goals of teachers. This case study demonstrates how guidelines that emerged from the design research process were negotiated in the development of this financial literacy tool for classrooms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2485760.2485832
IDC
Keywords
Field
DocType
design ubiquitous computing technology,design workshop,digital economy,mobile web application,design research process,prototype application,digital economy application,empirical study,case study,digital economy captures transaction,classroom economy
Financial literacy,Participatory design,Computer science,Usability,Knowledge management,Digital economy,Curriculum,Design research,Ubiquitous computing,Multimedia,Empirical research
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.54
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meg Cramer1312.93
Gillian Hayes21852155.64