Tangibles in the balance: A discovery learning task with physical or graphical materials

TEI'10 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-160

  Marshall, Paul ^a   Cheng, Peter C H ^b   Luckin, Rosemary ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance beam task; Graphical; Physical; Tangibles

Indexed keywords

BALANCE BEAM; COVARIATES; DISCOVERY LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GRAPHICAL MATERIALS; LEARNING MATERIALS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

MATERIALS;

EID: 77950818713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1709886.1709914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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