WallCology: Designing interaction affordances for learner engagement in authentic science inquiry

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 163-172

  Moher, Tom ^a   Uphoff, Brian ^a   Bhatt, Darshan ^a   Silva, Brenda López ^a   Malcolm, Peter ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded phenomena; Science inquiry learning; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES; COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED WORKS; EMBEDDED PHENOMENA; PILOT STUDIES; SCIENCE INQUIRY LEARNING; SCIENCE LEARNING; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS; VIRTUAL ECOSYSTEMS;

EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 57649143434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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