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Putting interference to work in the design of a whole-class learning activity

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551808

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Who's Who is a single-display groupware application designed for use by an entire class of young students. Utilizing a shared display, each user controls the state of discrete display elements using a simple interface on a handheld device; however, the semantics of user operations are left unspecified and become the subjects of guided student discovery. Interference among users is leveraged in support of student learning about the scientific principle of "control of variables," in particular, the strategy of varying one independent variable at a time in multivariate systems. We present the experience of a third-grade classroom that used Who's Who, including both an account of learning outcomes and a description of the technology and social interactions that led to those outcomes.

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Mahboob Kanafi MIivari NKinnula MSharma S(2022)Uncovering Children's Situated Design Capital – A Nexus Analytic InquiryProceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3501712.3529732(408-421)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2022
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Eriksson EBaykal GTorgersson O(2022)The Role of Learning Theory in Child-Computer Interaction - A Semi-Systematic Literature ReviewProceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3501712.3529728(50-68)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2022
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Putting interference to work in the design of a whole-class learning activity
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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Baykal GEriksson ETorgersson O(2023)Assessment of learning in child–computer interaction researchInternational Journal of Child-Computer Interaction10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.10057836:COnline publication date: 1-Jun-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100578
Mahboob Kanafi MIivari NKinnula MSharma S(2022)Uncovering Children's Situated Design Capital – A Nexus Analytic InquiryProceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3501712.3529732(408-421)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501712.3529732
Eriksson EBaykal GTorgersson O(2022)The Role of Learning Theory in Child-Computer Interaction - A Semi-Systematic Literature ReviewProceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3501712.3529728(50-68)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501712.3529728

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