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A Contribution to Collaborative Learning Using IPads for School Children

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Immersive Education (EiED 2014)

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Collaboration has a very positive effect on students’ learning experiences as well as their social interactions. Our research study aims towards enhancing the learning experience, stimulating communication and cooperative behavior to improve learning. Making use of recent technological advancements (tablets) and gaming as a motivational factor, a prototype application in form of a multiplayer learning game for iPads was designed and developed. In a face-to-face setting, connecting up to four devices, the players (learners) have to solve word puzzles in a collaborative way. Furthermore, a web-interface for teachers provides the possibility to create custom content as well as to receive feedback of the children’s performance. A first field study at two primary schools in Graz showed promising results for the learning behavior of school children.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/id736836885?mt=8.

  2. 2.

    All apps are available at http://app.tugraz.at/.

  3. 3.

    http://ellislab.com/codeigniter.

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    The user-management system will be explained in Sect. 4.3.

  5. 5.

    Translation of the screen elements, from top to bottom: textfield (Nr. 3) „At this time of year it is very hot.“, yellow railway signs “Send Letter”, word-to-guess (Nr. 2) “Summer”, button “Back”, button “Help”.

  6. 6.

    http://buchstabenpost.tugraz.at.

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    Martin Ebner & Benedikt Kienleitner

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    Martin Ebner

  2. University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Kai Erenli

  3. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Rainer Malaka

  4. Graz Univ. of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Johanna Pirker

  5. Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Ebner, M., Kienleitner, B. (2015). A Contribution to Collaborative Learning Using IPads for School Children. In: Ebner, M., Erenli, K., Malaka, R., Pirker, J., Walsh, A. (eds) Immersive Education. EiED 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_1

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