Title
Embodied experiences of place: a study of history learning with mobile technologies.
Abstract
This paper reports an empirical study that takes a multimodal analytical approach to examine how mobile technologies shape students' exploration and experience of place during a history learning activity in situ. In history education, mobile technologies provide opportunities for authentic experiential learning activities that have the potential to re-mediate students' understanding of space and place through enacted interaction, and to make the learning more memorable. A key question is how learners work with the physical and digital information in the context of that learning experience, and how this supports new experiences and understanding of space and place. Findings suggest that embodied mobile experiences foster the creation of both physical and digital markers, which were instrumental in concretizing the history experience and developing new narratives. The findings also show how different representational forms of digital information mediated interaction in specific ways and how digital augmentation can lead to conflation in student understanding of space and time. These findings inform our understanding of the value of mobile applications in supporting embodied learning experiences and provide key implications for pedagogical design, both in situ and back in the classroom.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1111/jcal.12137
J. Comp. Assisted Learning
Keywords
Field
DocType
embodied learning,history learning,mobile technologies: iPads,physical-digital interaction
Mobile technology,Experiential learning,Educational technology,Technology integration,Psychology,Embodied cognition,Teaching method,Computer-mediated communication,Pedagogy,Empirical research
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
4
0266-4909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sara Price116110.69
Carey Jewitt2446.44
Mona Sakr300.34