DocumentCode
3080644
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
fYear
2013
fDate
15-18 July 2013
Firstpage
483
Lastpage
484
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICALT.2013.153
Filename
6601996
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