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2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'04)
p. 109
Musex: A System for Supporting Children’s Collaborative Learning in a Museum with PDAs
Koji Yatani, University of Tokyo
Masanori Sugimoto, University of Tokyo
Fusako Kusunoki, Tama Art University
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Using handheld devices in educational environments
has begun to be recognized as suitable. Due to the drastic
revisions in Japanese curriculum standards for
elementary school children, new theories, systems and
practices to support children in their learning are
required. Therefore, we focused attention on science
museums, which are different learning environments from
schools. In this paper, we propose a system called Musex,
which is used to support children in learning and
exploring collaboratively in a museum with two PDAs
(Personal Digital Assistants). Through Musex, children
can collaboratively challenge some questions which are
related to exhibitions. Solving the questions let children
pay their attention to exhibitions naturally and
understand contents of exhibitions more. We evaluated
the system in a Japanese science museum and confirmed
its effectiveness.
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Citation:
Koji Yatani, Masanori Sugimoto, Fusako Kusunoki,
"Musex: A System for Supporting Children’s Collaborative Learning in a Museum with PDAs,"
wmte,
p. 109,
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'04),
2004
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