Designing better mobile collaborative laboratories for ecology field work for upper secondary schools

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This paper presents the next step in the iterative design process of a four-year project that explores how to use technology in the everyday ecology classroom for fieldwork. In order to proceed in making mobile science inquiries more accessible to the everyday teacher and to better understand how to design the final phases of the project we investigate how small groups of students' use new media tools to conceptualize science. The findings point to design implications that include the need to provide skills concerning the utilization of new media for small group teamwork along with more comprehensive inquiry tools for the learners to support mobile fieldwork.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 2012 17th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, WMUTE 2012
Number of pages5
Publication date2012
Pages77-81
Article number6185001
ISBN (Print)9780769546629
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 17th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, WMUTE 2012 - Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
Duration: 27 Mar 201230 Mar 2012

Conference

Conference2012 17th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, WMUTE 2012
LandJapan
ByTakamatsu, Kagawa
Periode27/03/201230/03/2012
SponsorIEEE Computer Society, IEEE Japan Council, Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation, Support Cent. Adv. Telecommun. Technol. Res. Found. (SCAT), Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement

    Research areas

  • collaboration, design-based research, inquiry science, mobile learning

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