Identifying tools to support schools' collaborative teaching and learning

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Smith, H., Underwood, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Luckin, R. and Stanton Fraser, D., 2006. Identifying tools to support schools' collaborative teaching and learning. In: eScience 2006: 2nd IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing, 2006-12-04 - 2006-12-06, Amsterdam.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2006.87

Abstract

Integration of e-Science and Grid technologies into curriculum teaching is currently an ambitious aim for teachers and school infrastructures to organise. However, it can expose classroom learners and teachers to a wider community of specialists and interested others, enriching the classroom experience beyond the knowledge of the local teacher. This paper reflects on two practical e-Science projects that utilised mobile hand-held technologies to bring the concepts of collaborative e-Science and the Grid to young scientists. Students engaged in hands-on exploration of their surroundings, and were able to communicate with pollution specialists and with a remote classroom of children who had used similar sensors. Communication and data sharing activities in these sessions exposed a requirement for a suite of tools and technologies not currently accessible to schools. From qualitative analysis of data across these two projects, we present a collection of supporting tools to help achieve this aim and future research direction.

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