TY - GEN
T1 - How learners employ semiotic resources for collaborative meaning-making in outdoor mobile learning
AU - Tan, Esther
AU - So, Hyo Jeong
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by the FutureSchools@Singapore project under the Singapore National Research Foundation?s (NRF) Interactive and Digital Media (IDM) in Education Research and Development (R&D) Programme. We thank Corrine Ho for her contribution in transcription and video-based interaction analysis.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper attempts to investigate how learners employ semiotic resources present in the material and physical world to construct and to negotiate shared meanings in an outdoor mobile learning context. We investigate the collaborative meaning-making and interaction process of two groups of 13-year-old students (Grade 7) during an outdoor mobile learning trail exploring the history and geographical features of World War II battle site. Methodologically, we employ video-based interaction analysis, which facilitates a micro-level analysis of human interaction, to understand how learners deploy and assemble the material and social resources available in the outdoor learning context. We surface two noteworthy patterns about a) how learners in small groups leverage semiotic resources to negotiate, repair and converge at shared meaning in changing contextual configurations and b) how prior learning experiences affect the way learners employ semiotic resources. The findings provide helpful insights into the design and implementation of mobile learning activities in outdoor settings.
AB - This paper attempts to investigate how learners employ semiotic resources present in the material and physical world to construct and to negotiate shared meanings in an outdoor mobile learning context. We investigate the collaborative meaning-making and interaction process of two groups of 13-year-old students (Grade 7) during an outdoor mobile learning trail exploring the history and geographical features of World War II battle site. Methodologically, we employ video-based interaction analysis, which facilitates a micro-level analysis of human interaction, to understand how learners deploy and assemble the material and social resources available in the outdoor learning context. We surface two noteworthy patterns about a) how learners in small groups leverage semiotic resources to negotiate, repair and converge at shared meaning in changing contextual configurations and b) how prior learning experiences affect the way learners employ semiotic resources. The findings provide helpful insights into the design and implementation of mobile learning activities in outdoor settings.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85057052537
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 268
EP - 275
BT - Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning
A2 - Lindwall, Oskar
A2 - Hakkinen, Paivi
A2 - Koschmann, Timothy
A2 - Tchounikine, Pierre
A2 - Ludvigsen, Sten
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
T2 - 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning, CSCL 2015
Y2 - 7 June 2015 through 11 June 2015
ER -