Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Emma Mercier, Durham University

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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