Fostering geospatial thinking in science education through a customisable smartphone application

被引：22

作者：

Price, Sara ^{[1
]}

Davies, Paul ^{[2
]}

Farr, William ^{[3
]}

Jewitt, Carey ^{[3
]}

Roussos, George ^{[4
]}

Sin, George

机构：

[1] Inst Educ IoE, London, England

[2] IoE, PGCE Secondary Sci & MA Sci Educ, London, England

[3] IoE, London, England

[4] Univ London Birkbeck Coll, London WC1E 7HX, England

来源：

BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY | 2014年 / 45卷 / 01期

关键词：

Teaching; -; Smartphones;

D O I：

10.1111/bjet.12000

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

Enhanced capabilities of modern smartphones offer the potential to design tools that support new forms of teaching and learning. Increased access to mobile-networked environments and geospatial systems provide opportunities for developing new educational experiences that support a geospatial approach to science, fostering new ways of thinking about science. However, designing effective innovative educational mobile applications remains a challenge. Applications need to be accessible to teachers that are not tech-savvy as well as those that are, foster active learning pedagogies, enable flexible and creative use, as well as fit within the curriculum. This paper describes a smartphone application developed together with pre-service science teachers, designed to be customisable by teachers while supporting a geospatial approach to science education. The design process and trial illustrate application use, how it supports a geospatial approach to science education and raises issues around mobile technologies, teacher pedagogies and adoption.

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