Titre :

Improving STEM Learning Experience in Primary School by Using NEWTONProject Innovative Technologies

Auteur(s) :

El Mawas, Nour [Auteur]
Trigone-CIREL
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Education de Lille - ULR 4354 [CIREL]
Université Lille 1 - Département Sciences de l'éducation et de la formation [CUEEP SEFA]
Tal, Irina [Auteur]
School of Computing [Dublin]
Moldovan, Arghir [Auteur]
School of Computing [Dublin]
Bogusevschi, Diana [Auteur]
Dublin City University [Dublin] [DCU]
Andrews, Josephine [Auteur]
School of Computing Science
Muntean, Gabriel-Miro [Auteur]
Dublin City University [Dublin] [DCU]
Muntean, Cristina [Auteur]
School of Computing [Dublin]

Titre de l’ouvrage :

Lecture notes in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)

Éditeur :

Springer Nature Switzerland

Lieu de publication :

suisse

Date de publication :

2019

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Technology enhanced learning
STEM
Educational video game
Primary education
Solar system

Discipline(s) HAL :

Informatique [cs]/Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Education

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Nowadays school curriculum is changing and more and more teachersare incorporating STEM content and themes into their classrooms. Students needto be proficient in STEM fields in order to be ready for the new technology ...
Lire la suite >Nowadays school curriculum is changing and more and more teachersare incorporating STEM content and themes into their classrooms. Students needto be proficient in STEM fields in order to be ready for the new technology drivensociety. Game-based learning and the latest visual technologies such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Labs can motive students to studySTEM topics through an immersive and engaging environment. This researchintroduces NEWTON project that integrates into a learning platform (NEWTELP)different innovative technologies and deploys them in various European learningenvironments. In particular, Final Frontier, a novel interactive educational videogame about solar system designed for primary school children is presented.A research study that involved the use of the game in a primary Irish school fromDublin, has investigated the learner experience. An analysis of the results showthat over 90% of students confirmed that the game helped them to learn about thecharacteristics of the planets from the Solar system and they enjoyed the game andthe game features in particular the fun aspect, the exploration tasks, staLire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Éducation de Lille (CIREL) - ULR 4354

Source :

Harvested from HAL