Designing Tabletop Activities for Inquiry-Based Learning: Lessons from Phylogenetics, Neuroscience and Logistics

摘要

In this paper I discuss the lessons learnt from designing learning environments for science education. More specifically, I describe four projects I designed and (or) evaluated: Walden, a multi-touch multi-displays for informal science education; the Tinker Table, a Tangible User Interface for students in logistics; Phylo-Genie, a learning scenario for collaborative learning of phylogenetics; and finally BrainExplorer, a pen-based tabletop environment that enables direct interaction with a small-scale brain. I summarize my findings by defining 3 ways in which technology can enhance knowledge building for inquiry-based learning: via a "Representational Effect", by providing rich interaction techniques and by preparing for future learning.