Search results for author:"Mike Sharples"
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The Sense-it App: A Smartphone Sensor Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning
Eileen Scanlon; Mike Sharples; Maria Aristeidou; Eloy Villasclaras-Fernández; Christothea Herodotou
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 9, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 16–38
The authors describe the design and formative evaluation of a sensor toolkit for Android smartphones and tablets that supports inquiry-based science learning. The Sense-it app enables a user to access all the motion, environmental and position...
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Personal Inquiry: Orchestrating Science Investigations within and beyond the Classroom
Mike Sharples; Eileen Scanlon; Shaaron Ainsworth; Stamatina Anastopoulou; Trevor Collins; Charles Crook; Ann Jones; Lucinda Kerawalla; Karen Littleton; Paul Mulholland; Claire O'Malley
Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 24, No. 2 (2015) pp. 308–341
A central challenge for science educators is to enable young people to act as scientists by gathering and assessing evidence, conducting experiments, and engaging in informed debate. We report the design of the nQuire toolkit, a system to support...