Jitti Niramitranon
University of Nottingham
One-to-one technology classrooms equip each child with a computing device that provides personalised learning tools. They offer promising environments to support individual and small group learning through the affordances of handheld devices such as portability, low cost and communication features. However, there are management problems in the technology-enabled classroom, for instance, lack of support for scaffolding collaborative and whole class working, design of lessons that switch easily from one to another activity, and difficulty in re-using lesson components.
The research investigates the development and evaluation of a software tool (SceDer) to enable a teacher to design and orchestrate learning in a one-to-one classroom. It begins with the studies: one-to-one classroom characteristics; currently available software tools and specifications in e-learning such as IMS LD, IMS LD compliant software tools and LAMS; research and practices in the area of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning such as CSCL Scripts; and the ideal of effective scenarios for one-to-one classrooms. A subset of the effective scenarios are then analysed to the level of activity and interaction in order to discover how technology can support the teachers and students when the lessons are mediated by the technology.
The results of the scenarios analysis, together with the requirements from relevant stakeholders such as students, teachers, researchers, and technologists captured from the literature review, are then brought together for developing the SceDer system to orchestrate learning with one-to-one technologies. SceDer consists of three main parts: SceDer Authoring, an authoring system for teachers to design lessons; an interchange language (COML), for describing lesson sequences and resources; and a delivery system based on Group Scribbles software, for enabling the teacher to deliver and manage the designed lessons in the one-to-one classrooms.
The talk relates to the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of the SceDer system which has been tested in school classrooms to assess its usability, usefulness and expressiveness. The results of usability demonstrate that the system provides intuitive designer and player tools, that can be easily used by teachers and students to achieve the lesson goals. The results of usefulness show that SceDer can manage fluid transitions between individual, group, and whole class learning activities. In term of expressiveness, SceDer is able to support teachers to rapidly design and conduct a wide range of scenarios. This includes the reflection on the work and possible approaches to further improve the system.
This event will be live streamed via http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/live/
This seminar will take place in Room 35a, Flexible Learning Room, LSRI, The Exchange, Jubilee Campus