Scaffolding science inquiry in museums with Zydeco

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3373-3378

  Kuhn, Alex ^a   Cahill, Clara ^a   Quintana, Chris ^a   Soloway, Elliot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive scaffolding; Collaboration; Context aware; Learner centered design; Mobile computing; Science inquiry learning

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; CONTEXT-AWARE; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL GOALS; INQUIRY LEARNING; LEARNER-CENTERED; MOBILE CONTEXT; MOBILE DESIGN;

BRIDGES; DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE COMPUTING; SCAFFOLDS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953105258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1753987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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