In the January/February 2014 issue of TechTrends, Heather and Susan offer a design paper that brings together research on place-based education with research on mobile computing’s location awareness feature. In this article, we developed three design guidelines to support learners to develop rich science-related understandings within local communities.
(1) Facilitate participation in disciplinary conversations & practices within personally-relevant places
(2) Amplifying observations to see the disciplinary-relevant aspects of a place
(3) Extending experiences through exploring new perspectives, representations, conversations, & knowledge artifacts
We illustrate these design ideas with a case study from our Tree Investigator project.
To access the journal article from the TechTrends site (subscription is required), click here. To download the pdf from our website’s publication list instead, please click here and navigate to Zimmerman & Land (2014).
