- children need to see science as relevant; scientific evidence, skills, and argumentation matters; traditional science learning is alien, boring, disconnected
- create life-relevant learning environments; scientifically meaningful experiences; it’s chaotic; personal engagement
- challenges: kids forget purpose, end investigations prematurely, fail to recognize importance of scientific investigations, need help pursuing interests and goals
- technology can support scientific inquiry and cooperative inquiry; existing technology is too structured or too open-ended; design technology to support scientifically meaningful experiences
- participatory design with children, technology designers, and educators
- Zydeco – structured support; create entry -> comment on entry -> tag entry -> aggregate data
- StoryKit – create/edit story -> add media
- Kitchen Chemistry – summer camp; how can Zydeco and StoryKit support the experiences?
- data collection -> coded data for scientific practice + personal meaning
- findings: technology supported documented experiment, scientific observations, and measurement procedures; supported personal meaning for creativity, documenting group experience, playfulness
- Zydeco: tags (reflective, short, later analysis)
- StoryKit: storytelling is a natural scaffold; supported scientific inquiry; learners wanted and likes; free form media integration; document personal experiences and personalize scientific contributions
- next steps: ScienceKit – visualization, tagging, storytelling tool
#hcil Technology for Promoting Scientific Practice and Personal Meaning in Life-Relevant Learning (Jason Yip and Tammy Clegg)
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