Interacting with Technology -Case study: Children and technology
Interacting with Technology
Lecture 4: Case Study: Children and Technology
Susanna Martin
Interacting with Technology -Case study: Children and technology
Overview
Introduction & Lecture 1: Children, schools and technology
Lecture 2: Mobile technologies and sensors
Lecture 3: Mobile and tangible technologies for children
Lecture 4: Case study: Children and technology
Lecture 5. Exploring spatial cognition with novel technologies
Lecture 6: Aiding spatial cognition in children
Lecture 7: Evaluating 'in the wild'
Interacting with Technology -Case study: Children and technology
Overview
Case study: Children and technology
• My PhD
• A brief history
• Example data loggers
• Case Study One- River Field Trip
• Case Study Two- ‘Sound and Graphs’
• Problems to overcome
• Questions
Interacting with Technology -Case study: Children and technology
My PhD:
‘Mobile Contextual Data for Hands on Learning’
• My PhD is sponsored by Great Western Research.
– This means I am linked between two universities, Bath (Psychology)
and Bristol (Computer Science) and I have an industrial sponsor,
ScienceScope.
– ScienceScope make data logging equipment for schools which can
either be used inside or outside of the class room.
• My PhD sits within a multitude of fields;
– education, science, computers, and outdoor learning
• The key theme running through out my research is to establish the
role context can have on learning and motivation in school
children.
• By understanding what kind of information helps children we can
disseminate this information and work with educational software
producers to improve learning tools.
Interacting with Technology -Case study: Children and technology
A Brief History
• Piaget - Belief that learning
should occur through play and
interaction.
• Vygotsky – Thought learning
should be within the learner’s
‘Zone of Proximal Development’
this was the idea that learners
should be provided with tasks
slightly harder than what they can