A Structured Inquiry into a Digital Story: Students Report the Making of a Superball
Schools have been islands isolated from mobile technologies for a long time. In Finland, schools are investing in mobile technologies with the aim of providing a tablet for each student. This trend enables classes to adopt practices where students not only use ready-made learning materials but generate content as well. This paper aims to investigate student-generated digital stories as learning artefacts through a case example from two chemistry classes in a primary school. After introducing a method of creating digital stories from a structured inquiry, the paper presents an in-depth analysis of a specific type of story, its construction and conceptual learning outcomes related to the story's topic (i.e., chemical reaction). The results indicate that storytelling based on a structured inquiry is suited for novice science learners. In the future, teaching visual communication skills and story scripting to students should be emphasised to make the stories more sophisticated.
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2016
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Authors: | Penttilä, Johanna ; Kallunki, Veera ; Niemi, Hannele M. ; Multisilta, Jari |
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International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL). - IGI Global, ISSN 1941-8655, ZDB-ID 2614006-8. - Vol. 8.2016, 3 (01.07.), p. 19-34
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Publisher: |
IGI Global |
Subject: | Chemistry | Chemistry Learning | Digital Stories | Digital Storytelling | Inquiry-Based Learning | Primary Education | Science | Science Learning | Structured inquiry | Student-Generated Videos |
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