Transcript Diapositivo 1

Children as Authors of
Georeferenced Multisensory Information:
Towards the Design of
Simulation and Editing Tools for an
Educational Context
Maria João Silva
Carlos Brigas
Cristina Azevedo Gomes
Maria José Marcelino
Cristina Gouveia
ED-MEDIA 2008, 1 de Julho
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Summary
• The SchoolSenses@Internet project
• Goals of the present work
• Related Work
• Methodology
• Browsing and authoring activities
• Conclusions
Children as Authors of Georeferenced Multisensory Information:
Towards the Design of Simulation and Editing Tools
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The Schoolsenses@Internet project
The Schoolsenses@Internet project explores
georeferenced multisensory information
to improve the quality of learning in primary schools
Multisensory
Geographic information
Collaboration
Learning in context
Multiple representations
Multiple views
Improve the learning of complexity
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Towards the Design of Simulation and Editing Tools
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Goals of the present work
• To understand how elementary school children interact with :
– a multimedia simulation tool to explore georeferenced
multisensory information while studying environmental problems
– a multimedia editing tool to explore and create georeferenced
multisensory information
• To invite children to be explorers and creators of multisensory
information in georeferenced environmental contexts
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Related Work
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Senses@Clipart (Silva et al. 2003): a case library of multisensory messages integrated
in a collaborative website, which allowed to geo-reference the citizen collected data and
used the metaphor of postcards to create messages.
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HyConExplorer (Bouvin et al. 2005): a spatial hypermedia system to improve learning
that allowed children, aged 11 to 14, to georeference visual and aural information.
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A New Sense of Place? (Williams et al. 2005): children, aged 9 to 10, used a GPS to
create and explore outdoor soundscapes, which were afterwards edited.
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Nature Talk (Ohashi et al. 2006): children were able to record sounds and position
information to create a virtual sound map (sounds were layered on GoogleMaps).
Simulation, multimedia and geographic information tools to explore and georeference
sensations, such as colors, heat, humidity and vibration are not sufficiently used in
elementary schools.
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Methodology
Two workshops:
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Used a curriculum-focused design, which is a variant of Druin's
cooperative inquiry (Rode et al. 2003)
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Included a whole class (20 children, aged 9-10) from an elementary
school in Viseu, a city located in inner central Portugal
An appealing context to engage teachers and children in the activities of the
workshops was created by a call from the University of Lisbon inviting all
Portuguese elementary schools to create stories on the curricular topic of
“climate and climate change”
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Methodology
Activities
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Presentation of the “climate change” challenge using georeferenced
sensory information.
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Exploration of climate change issues using a multisensory simulation
tool: Simulkid.
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Creation of stories on climate change by the children using geo-referenced
multisensory information.
– Google Earth was the virtual globe used to engage children in
geographic information browsing.
– Kid Pix® Deluxe 4 was the multimedia edition tool selected, due to its
ease of use and diversity of tools, as well as to its structure of
customizable libraries and cliparts.
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Towards the Design of Simulation and Editing Tools
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Browsing and authoring activities:
Multisensory Simulation Tool
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Users can control the increase and
decrease of temperature and
precipitation.
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Simulkid displays colors,
animations, icons and sounds to
convey information such as the rise
of temperature or precipitation, the
increase of wind speed, the water
flooding houses or the drought of
fertile fields.
Simulkid portrays a watershed in Portugal
and presents the probable impacts of
climate change in this region.
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Browsing and authoring activities:
Multisensory Simulation Tool
Children showed no difficulty with the
interpretation of the multisensory
cues
Using a Multisensory Simulation Tool
“Look at the color of the sky. It’s raining
heavier.”
“The river is rising”
“The snow has melted. Look at the
color of the mountains”
“The green field is now brown”
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Towards the Design of Simulation and Editing Tools
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Browsing and authoring activities:
Creating Stories on Climate Change
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Browsing and authoring activities:
Creating Stories on Climate Change
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Towards the Design of Simulation and Editing Tools
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Browsing and authoring activities:
Representing Sensations
Using icons to represent sensations
Icons adapted from: Tullet, H. (2005). The five senses. London: Tate Publishing.
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Conclusions
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The use of multisensory information to teach and learn environmental
phenomena is a meaningful strategy
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To georeference information also contributes to increase the quality of
learning
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Google Earth is a powerful and easy to use virtual globe that creates
engagement and enthusiasm
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The creation of multisensory information by children benefits from the
exploration of case-based libraries with images, sounds, animations and
icons with multiple levels of abstraction
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Thank you!
http://schoolsenses.dei.uc.pt
Maria João Silva
Instituto Politécnico do Porto,
Escola Superior de Educação do Porto,
Porto, Portugal,
Carlos Brigas
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda,
Escola Superior de Educação, Guarda, Portugal
[email protected]
[email protected]
Cristina Azevedo Gomes
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu,
Centro de Estudos em Educação,
Tecnologias e Saúde, Viseu, Portugal
Maria José Marcelino
Universidade de Coimbra,
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia,
Dep. Engenharia Informática, Coimbra, Portugal,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Children as Authors of Georeferenced Multisensory Information:
Towards the Design of Simulation and Editing Tools
Cristina Gouveia
Ydreams, Caparica, Portugal,
[email protected]
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