Impact of Teachers' Uses of the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-Based Learning Environment (SMILE) to Enact Student-Generated Questioning Practices in Science Classrooms

• In Event: 54.058 - Technology, Literacy, and Content Learning

Abstract

SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-Based Learning Environment) is a technology developed to support student learning through student-generated questioning. Literature has shown that student-generated questions can positively affect students’ learning motivation and reading comprehension, depending on teachers’ design of learning activities. To explore ways that teachers may use SMILE to support student-generated questioning practices, we conducted the study with four middle school science teachers. They used SMILE to enact student-generated questioning practices that elicit and use higher-order thinking in the learning process. We will report teachers’ implementation experience and how student-generated questioning practices affect students’ learning attitude, learning performance (domain-specific content knowledge and reading comprehension), knowledge retention, and the role SMILE plays in this process.

Authors

• Hui-Yin Hsu, New York Institute of Technology

• Paul Hong Suk Kim, Stanford University

• Heike Heidemeier, Personnel and Organizational Psychology