This week we had a visit from a table top and teaching researcher from Durham university.
Nice clear straight forward work. here are my live notes.
class with shared tables
multiple
using two tilted tables
design and implement a new interface for education multitouch systems.
A New pedagogy
How do you support whole-class collaborative learning ?
Collaboration research
includes
Barron 2003 Quart of interaction
Webb 1983 Quality of explanations
Task and group
Status of group members cohen 1994
Priori relationship Mell & McDonals 2000 Azmitia
What are the outcomes, Successful Learning, Successful Products ( things made ), Successful interactions, suggessful grades, successful attitudes
Multi-touch compare with paper.
Doing maths and history.
Teacher, content,mode (multi-touch/paper), gender
Maths
Logic problems - sorting out school
Questions are like bits of paper, but can change size.
OK- how to evaluate
TIme on task - about same but less time wasted between tasks setting up/tearing down.
Multi touch and paper same for history test.
Looking at how children process
amount of time reading aloud, or reading to self or
Quieter kids start on outside might move to centre.
With stuff on screen students share cards rather than owning them.
But in this case does the multi-touch doing anything?
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