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Yanghee Kim; Jaejin Hwang; Seongmi Lim; Moon-Heum Cho; Sungchul Lee – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This research explored if a social robot would play a role in facilitating the development of friendship between young children while they engage in playful learning. Grounded in child-robot interaction and child development literature, we instantiated four sessions of triadic interaction activities among two children and a robot, where the robot…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, After School Programs, Robotics
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Baoqing Song; Yilin Dai; Boning Fu; Gongxin Jiang; Yunji Cai; Jun Wu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Aesthetic literacy originates from rich aesthetic experiences, one of the principal ways people gain such experiences is through arts appreciation. Sixty-seven students participated in 119 art appreciation activities at out-of-school public art venues in China. A digital education platform was used to record students' appreciation process. A…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics, Learning Experience, Informal Education
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Hsu, Pi-Sui; Lee, Eric Monsu; Smith, Thomas J.; Kraft, Carol – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how an after-school program that infused Maker education influenced Midwestern U.S. middle school youths' attitudes toward science. The researchers conducted pre- and post-interviews with six students from non-dominant backgrounds as well as the teacher, and also administered attitudinal…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scientific Attitudes, After School Programs, Shared Resources and Services
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Jiang, Shiyan; Smith, Blaine E.; Shen, Ji – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Previous research illustrates the collaborative nature of adolescents' multimodal composing processes. However, few studies have specifically focused on how different modes influence student interactions over time. This study examines how multiple modes (e.g. text, music, visuals, and animations) mediated middle schoolers' composing processes as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Interaction, Peer Relationship
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Lai, Arthur – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Immersion has been an acclaimed approach for second-language acquisition, but is not available to most students. The idea of this study was to create a mobile immersion environment on a smartphone using a mobile instant messenger, WhatsApp™. Forty-five Form-1 (7th grade) students divided into the Mobile Group and Control Group participated in a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
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Prieto, Linda; Arreguín-Anderson, María G.; Yuen, Timothy T.; Ek, Lucila D.; Sánchez, Patricia; Machado-Casas, Margarita; García, Adriana – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper presents four projects in which mobile devices are used to support authentic learning in an afterschool technology club, "La Clase Mágica" (LCM@UTSA), designed to motivate underrepresented elementary school children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The implementation of mobile devices into our LCM@UTSA is…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
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Gomez, Kimberley; Lee, Ung-Sang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
John Seely Brown suggested that learning environments should be spaces in which all work is public, is subject to iterative critique by instructors and peers, and in which social interaction is primary. In such spaces, students and teachers engage in a situated cognition approach to teaching and learning where "cognitive accomplishments rely…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interaction, Social Influences, Educational Environment