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ERIC Number: EJ1439625
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1042-1629
EISSN: EISSN-1556-6501
Spotlighting Spectatorship: Elevating Observation-Based Learning in the Design and Evaluation of Body-Scale Learning Environments
Leah F. Rosenbaum
Educational Technology Research and Development, v72 n4 p2133-2157 2024
Research on the educational value of play tends to focus on active players, especially when evaluating novel interaction technologies. However, a long history of scholarship underscores observing communal practice as a primary means of enculturation and learning. This paper demonstrates learning opportunities available within a range of participation forms--from spectator to player and some in between--that emerge around "Geometris," a collaborative, body-scale geometry game, as installed in a children's science museum. Considering learning as participation in communal practice, I present frequency analysis of roughly 350 participants followed by thick narrative descriptions of 3 focal groups to characterize the learning opportunities available within diverse forms of participation in this technologically enabled gameplay. I also identify particular design elements--namely the user-agnostic input mechanism and certain crowd control measures--that inadvertently enabled these participation forms. Theoretical implications include the pedagogically relevant range of action-perception possibilities available across participation forms. Additionally, proposed design heuristics could facilitate these diverse forms of participation in other educational designs.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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