Authors:
Takafumi Daikoku
1
;
Hideo Funaoi
2
;
Fusako Kusunoki
3
;
Makiko Takenaka
4
and
Shigenori Inagaki
5
Affiliations:
1
Doshisha Women’s College, Japan
;
2
Soka University, Japan
;
3
Tama Art University, Japan
;
4
Oita University, Japan
;
5
Kobe University, Japan
Keyword(s):
Tablet PC, Pointing, Annotation, Manga, Case Method, Teacher Education.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Collaborative Learning
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to develop and evaluate a system that could be used to support university
students and graduate school students desiring to become teachers by providing the knowledge and skills
necessary for them to provide instructions for scientific experiments; the system involved sharing awareness
of issues using easy to use tablet PCs. The system required learners to perform touch operations by pointing
at locations with pins of four colors, at which time they became aware of issues within the scenes of the
experiments involving the pupils depicted in the manga displayed on the screen. The learners mutually shared
the things they noticed using the sharing function. The manga displayed on the screen is a case method
learning material, developed for the purpose of educating teachers. It is embedded with a diverse amount of
knowledge and skills necessary to become a science teacher, while enabling learners to acquire the
observation skills of teachers. The sharing
function and the color-sorted frame advancing function of this
system were rated positively by the students. Furthermore, learners suggested that the system could be
improved by adding a memo function as well as a function for an overall view and for viewing arbitrary
pages.
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