Space and Technologies for Learning in Schools, Museums, and Workplaces: Recent Approaches in Design-Based Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

New physical learning environments are increasingly assumed to include a variety of embedded and distributed digital technologies. These spatial-technological relationships are among an ever-growing variety of characteristics relevant to our understanding of situated learning processes. This symposium brings this relationship to the foreground through studies in an art museum, science museum, middle school classroom, high school classroom, and university department. The aim of the symposium is to investigate recent approaches to the design of digitally mediated learning spaces. In doing so, we will identify features and design principles with applicability across all settings as well as contextual factors for specific settings and domains. This session presents viewpoints on innovative ways of thinking about advanced learning technologies, collaboration, and architectural space.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Section 3a: Learning Environments

Chair

• Ingeborg Krange, University of Oslo

Papers

• Designing Academic Technology-Rich Spaces to Facilitate Cross-Departmental Interactions - Christopher Hoadley, New York University; Matthew Lucas, New York University

• Location, Location: Using the Physical Space of the Classroom for Pedagogical Advantage - James D. Slotta, University of Toronto; Mike Tissenbaum, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Michelle Lui, University of Toronto - OISE

• Active Learning Classroom Use in College-Level Physics: The Impact of Technology Design and Adaptive Orchestration - Elizabeth S. Charles, Dawson College; Chris Whittaker, Dawson College; Nathaniel Lasry, Harvard University

• Designing Interactives in Art Museums: Situating Learning Technologies and Interactions in Gallery Space - Rolf Steier, University of Oslo; Palmyre Pierroux, University of Oslo

• Scope of Action for Learning in Science Centers - Ingeborg Krange, University of Oslo

Discussant

• Charles David Cox, The Pennsylvania State University