A New Type of Learning Experience in Nomadic Inquiry: Use of Zydeco in the Science Center

Author

Lo, Wan-Tzu ; Delen, Ibrahim ; Cahill, C. ; Kuhn, Alex ; Schmoll, Shannon ; Quintana, Chris

Author_Institution

Sch. of Educ., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

27-30 March 2012

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

61

Abstract

Zydeco is a mobile and web based system that allows students to collect and annotate multi-modal data. With the support of Zydeco, students are expected to connect their learning experiences across different learning settings. In this case study, we shadowed four 7th grade students with different achievement levels from a science class and observed how they utilized Zydeco in a science center. We analyzed their data collected with Zydeco and their final project posters to explain how students connect learning experiences in nomadic inquiry.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; information retrieval; mobile computing; natural sciences computing; 7th grade students; Web based system; Zydeco; learning experience; learning settings; mobile system; multimodal data annotation; multimodal data collection; nomadic inquiry; science center; science class; Education; Electricity; Generators; Portable media players; Reflection; Shadow mapping; Videos; informal learning; mobile learning; nomadic inquiry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (WMUTE), 2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0884-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMUTE.2012.16

Filename

6184997