鈥淏ring Your Own Device (BYOD)鈥?for seamless science inquiry in a primary school

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• 作者：Yanjie Song ; ^{ysong@ied.edu.hk" class="auth_mail}
• 关键词：BYOD ; Seamless inquiry-based learning ; Content knowledge
• 刊名：Computers and Education
• 出版年：May, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：74
• 期：Complete
• 页码：50-60
• 全文大小：1499 K

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This paper reports a one-year study on the project of 鈥淏ring Your Own Device (BYOD) for seamless science inquiry鈥?in a primary school in Hong Kong. BYOD in this study refers to 鈥渢he technology model where students bring a personally owned mobile device with various apps and embedded features to use anywhere, anytime for the purpose of learning鈥? The study aims at investigating (a) what advancement of content knowledge students made in their science inquiry in a seamless learning environment supported by their own mobile device; (b) how the students advanced their content knowledge in science inquiry; and (c) what students' perception is regarding their learning experience supported by their own mobile devices. The topic of inquiry was 鈥淭he Anatomy of Fish鈥? Data collection included pre- and post-domain tests, self-reported questionnaire, student artifacts, class observations and field notes. Content analysis and a student artifact tracing approach were adopted in the data analysis to examine and trace students' knowledge advancement. The research findings show that the students advanced their understanding of the anatomy of fish well beyond what was available in the textbook and they developed positive attitude toward聽seamless science inquiry supported by their own mobile devices.