Facilitator, functionary, friend or foe? Studying the role of iPads within learning activities across a school year
Abstract
We present the findings from a longitudinal study of iPad use in a Primary school classroom. While tablet devices have found their way into classroom environments, we still lack in-depth and long-term studies of how they integrate into everyday classroom activities. Our findings illustrate in-classroom tablet use and the broad range of learning activities in subjects such as maths, languages, social sciences, and even physical education. Our observations expand current models on teach- ing and learning supported by tablet technology. Our findings are child-centred, focusing on three different roles that tablets can play as part of learning activities: Friend, Functionary, and Facilitator. This new perspective on in-classroom tablet use can facilitate critical discussions around the integration and impact of these devices in the educational context, from a design and educational point of view.
Citation
Mann , A-M , Hinrichs , U , Read , J C & Quigley , A J 2016 , Facilitator, functionary, friend or foe? Studying the role of iPads within learning activities across a school year . in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . ACM , New York , pp. 1833-1845 , 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16) , San Jose, CA , California , United States , 7/05/16 . https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858251 conference
Publication
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Type
Conference item
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© 2016, the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at dl.acm.org / https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858251
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This work is supported by ESPRC and SICSA.Collections
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