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- Apiola, Mikko, et al.
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An OLPC Workshop in Rural Tanzania : Preliminary Results
- 2013
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Ingår i: 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. - : IEEE. - 9780769550091 ; , s. 107-109
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One-to-one computing is an active and widely researched topic in educational technology. Its benefits include, for instance, easily updatable material base, anywhere-anytime learning, adaptability, and simulated experiments in science. The use of one-to-one computing in a developing country context has recently become an active research topic. However, the materialization of the educational benefits requires proper contextualization regarding the necessary pedagogical, organizational, institutional, and other types of adaptation. This paper presents preliminary results from an action research study in a primary school in rural Tanzania. In that study, the utilization of one- to-one computing in a combination with modern pedagogical approaches to teach ICT and health care topics was studied.
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- Apiola, Mikko, et al.
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Results From an Action Research Approach for Designing CS1 Learning Environments in Tanzania
- 2012
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Ingår i: 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. - : IEEE Computer Society. - 9781467313520 ; , s. 830-835
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the most debated areas of computer science education is how to arrange programming courses. One of the debates is concerned with the amount of guidance a learning environment should grant to the learner. This research study reports on development and testing of a model where students work on their homework under guidance, facilitated by active student-teacher collaboration, continuous feedback, and student support. While qualitative results, observations, and student feedback about the intervention were exclusively positive, controlled experiment showed no significant advantage over the control group. This paper reports the results of the experiment described above, and suggests ten hypotheses for further research.
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- John, Pajunen, et al.
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Viewpoints from Computing to the Epistemology of Experiments
- 2013
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Ingår i: IACAP 2013 Proceedings. - : International Association for Computing and Philosophy.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although experiments have been a core element of the scientific method since the 1600s, experiments per se only caught philosophers' interest in the 1980s. Since the 1980s dozens of philosophical analyses of experiments have been presented, based mostly on physics and biology. A number of philosophers of science have called for bottom-up, "naturalistic" investigations of experiments in various disciplines, especially fields other than physics. This paper presents an epistemological analysis of experiments in computing fields in terms of epistemological characteristics, research milieux, and epistemological features of results. Our analysis of experiments, based on how the term is operationalized in computer science papers, opens new critical viewpoints to the role of experiments in computing, as well as complementary viewpoints to the concept of experiment in the philosophy of science.
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- Pakarinen, Saila, et al.
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Designing OLPC Learning Environments : A Case on 1:1 Pedagogy in Rural Tanzania
- 2013
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Ingår i: Africon 2013. - : IEEE conference proceedings. - 9781467359436 ; , s. -5
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the past two decades computers have become a standard educational tool in the industrialized countries. Recently, equipping each student with a personal device (one- to-one computing, OLPC) has been enthusiastically advocated for developing countries, too. However, despite a number of pioneering research studies, broader analyses of pedagogical, technical, and organizational aspects of one-to-one computing in developing countries are largely missing. In this participatory action research in a rural Tanzanian primary school, we identified a number of pedagogical elements that were beneficial for teaching and utilizing ICT in the classroom. We pinpointed exploratory and self-regulated learning, group problem solving, and constructive principles as facilitators of learning within the one-to-one computing paradigm in this context. Our results show that the introduction of children’s computers also triggered a number of changes in dynamics both within the school but also outside the school.
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- Tedre, Matti, et al.
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Experiments in Computing : A Survey
- 2014
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Ingår i: Scientific World Journal. - : Hindawi Limited. - 1537-744X .- 2356-6140. ; , s. 549398-
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Experiments play a central role in science. The role of experiments in computing is, however, unclear. Questions about the relevance of experiments in computing attracted little attention until the 1980s. As the discipline then saw a push towards experimental computer science, a variety of technically, theoretically, and empirically oriented views on experiments emerged. As a consequence of those debates, today's computing fields use experiments and experiment terminology in a variety of ways. This paper analyzes experimentation debates in computing. It presents five ways in which debaters have conceptualized experiments in computing: feasibility experiment, trial experiment, field experiment, comparison experiment, and controlled experiment. This paper has three aims: to clarify experiment terminology in computing; to contribute to disciplinary self-understanding of computing; and, due to computing's centrality in other fields, to promote understanding of experiments in modern science in general.
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