‘Talking Tools'

2016 ◽  
pp. 1770-1788
Author(s):  
Annika Wiklund-Engblom ◽  
Kasper Hiltunen ◽  
Juha Hartvik ◽  
Mia Porko-Hudd ◽  
Marléne Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Compulsory Subject ◽  
Design And Manufacture

The study presented is part of a work-in-progress project of developing a mobile application for smartphones, Talking Tools (TT). The first context TT is developed for and tested in is sloyd education [Swedish: slöjd], a compulsory subject taught in Finnish schools. In sloyd learners design and manufacture unique artifacts in various materials (textiles, wood, metal, and electronics). The process-based work flow of sloyd lends itself well to this kind of educational tool, which aids multimodal documentation, communication, and instruction. The empirical study targets what student teachers (N=11) microblogged about and the character of the blog posts during a sloyd project. A sociocultural perspective of appropriating new tools for learning is used as a theoretical frame, as well as views on multimodality and transmedia. Their sloyd process is discussed in terms of transmedia storybuilding, as learners build their own story as a flow of content through their documentation and interactions.

‘Talking Tools'

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Wiklund-Engblom ◽  
Kasper Hiltunen ◽  
Juha Hartvik ◽  
Mia Porko-Hudd ◽  
Marléne Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Compulsory Subject ◽  
Design And Manufacture

The study presented is part of a work-in-progress project of developing a mobile application for smartphones, Talking Tools (TT). The first context TT is developed for and tested in is sloyd education [Swedish: slöjd], a compulsory subject taught in Finnish schools. In sloyd learners design and manufacture unique artifacts in various materials (textiles, wood, metal, and electronics). The process-based work flow of sloyd lends itself well to this kind of educational tool, which aids multimodal documentation, communication, and instruction. The empirical study targets what student teachers (N=11) microblogged about and the character of the blog posts during a sloyd project. A sociocultural perspective of appropriating new tools for learning is used as a theoretical frame, as well as views on multimodality and transmedia. Their sloyd process is discussed in terms of transmedia storybuilding, as learners build their own story as a flow of content through their documentation and interactions.

Qualitative Changes in Conceptions of the World around Us as an Educational Outcome: Pre-school Student Teachers’ Way of Apprehending Children at Play

1982 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Biörn Hasselgren ◽  
Ference Marton
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Temporal Sequence ◽  
Developmental Pattern ◽  
Educational Outcome ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Changes

An alternative model for describing effects of education is argued for. This model is based on the conceptualization of learning as a qualitative change in our way of understanding some aspect of the world around us; and it follows from this that, when describing educational effects, we should aim at finding out what changes have taken place and to what extent. This particular research approach is illustrated by an empirical study of how pre-school student teachers’ apprehensions of children at play change as a function of their education. There were four distinctively different ways of apprehending discerned:fragmentary (enumeration of various details without any coherence); partialistic (focus is on one part of the whole scene depicted, the rest is left out); chronological (events are ordered in a temporal sequence); and abstracting (the scene is seen as illustrating a superordinate idea). There was a developmental pattern observed going from either a fragmentary or a partialistic apprehension to a chronological one and from there to an abstracting apprehension.

Work in progress _ an educational tool for teaching linear and control systems

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel A. Gonzalez ◽  
Martin Christian G. Leonor ◽  
Pauline Anne T. M. Mangulabnan ◽  
John Jessie S. Lu Chui Kau ◽  
Marlon Wilson U. Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Visitors’ Experience at Kuching Orchid Garden with Mobile Guide Application

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Kamal Othman ◽  
Khairul Izham Idris ◽  
Shaziti Aman ◽  
Prashanth Talwar
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Museum Experience ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
And Control

This empirical study was conducted to measure visitors’ experiences with a mobile guide application at Kuching Orchid Garden (KOG). A between-group experimental design with 114 participants was conducted to test three groups;(1)a group using the mobile guide application as an information aid,(2)a control group (with no information aid), and(3)a group using pamphlets to explore the KOG. The Museum Experience Scale (MES) was used to evaluate visitors’ experience for all participants, whilst the Multimedia Guide Scale (MMGS) was used to evaluate the visitors’ experience with the mobile guide group. The most notable result from the Museum Experience Scale (MES) showed an impact on the visitors in terms of knowledge and learning when using the mobile guide application. However, the study found that enhancing visitors experience goes beyond simply providing interactive technologies in public settings to aid with information delivery. A limitation was providing relevant information in a timely and seamless manner due to inaccuracies of mapping between physical and digital environments. Future works should consider beacons and other Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology to address the issues with location based devices. It is also important to highlight that the use of one’s own device had a significant impact on learnability and control of the device, thus suggesting that the BYOD concept should be widely used in informal educational settings implementing mobile guide applications. The use of MES and MMGS informs future researches with an understanding of the different dimensions of visitors’ experiences with mobile guide technology in public spaces to inform mobile application development that may further boost visitors’ engagement, emotional connection, and meaningful experience.

scholarly journals Expertise and the formation of university museum collections

1970 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Terje Brattli ◽  
Morten Steffensen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

This text is a project presentation of work in progress. The objective is to introduce an alternative analytical approach to university museum collections as a phenomenon. This endeavour has been motivated by our experiences of the dynamic and multiple practices and versions of collections by these museums, rather than of the collections as static and uniform. Based on an approach inspired by ontological politics, we analyse the university museum collection as a result of different enactments rather than as a homogeneous entity that either just is, either passively observed or strategically and/or competitively constructed. These theoretical reflections, in addition to observations made in an initial empirical study of practices at a university museum, indicate the need to acknowledge the coexistence of several parallel versions of the university museum collection as expertise performance. This allows for the understanding of the university museum collection as multiple, and the second phase of this project will consist of analysis of relationships between various simultaneous practices and versions.

Children’s socialisation into literate practices through engaging in translation activities in immersion preschool

2019 ◽  
pp. 146879841986560
Author(s):  
Anne Kultti ◽  
Niklas Pramling
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Zone Of Proximal Development ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Literate Practices ◽  
Interpretive Skills ◽  
Interpretive Practices ◽  
Communicative Actions

In this empirical study, we analyse how five-year-old children are socialised into particular interpretive practices indicative of a literate mind. The data come from translation activities where children with their teacher listen to and then talk about how to understand the lyrics to a popular children’s song. The setting is a Finnish–Swedish immersion programme, where Finnish-speaking children are immersed in Swedish. Three such activities were audio recorded. These are analysed according to the principles of Interaction Analysis, that is, how participants sequentially respond to each other’s communicative actions. Theoretically, the study is informed by a sociocultural perspective, highlighting how intramental function, such as reasoning and problem-solving, are contingent on intermental communication. How participating children are introduced to literate distinctions and concepts of interpreting text is therefore premised to be critical to their emerging literate interpretive skills. The results highlight how the children are constantly challenged and supported by the teacher in a zone of proximal development where their abilities to interpret the lyrics discussed are stretched.

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