Title :
Integrating Mobile Device and Collaborative Mind Map to Enhance Sixth Graders´ Creative Writing Abilities
Author :
Ah-Fur Lai ; Shun-Te Chiu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Taipei Municipal Univ. of Educ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The main purpose of this study is to apply mobile device and collaborative mind map on writing activities, and investigate its effect on creative writing abilities. Based on process-oriented model, this study proposed a MCW model of writing pedagogy and conducted a quasi-experiment for two months. The subjects are 57 six grade student, divided into experiment group and control group. Through highly social interaction, the experiment group outperform than the control group on creative writing abilities including sensitivity, fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; groupware; mobile computing; MCW model; collaborative mind map; creative writing abilities; mobile device; process-oriented model; social interaction; Collaboration; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Mobile handsets; Sensitivity; Writing; Collaborative Mind Map; Creative Writing Abilities; Mobile Device; Sixth Graders;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2013.153
