Collaborative Research: INK-12: Interactive Ink Inscriptions in K-12

通过这个为期两年的探索性项目，PI试图了解平板电脑网络可能在小学和中学数学和科学课堂上扮演的角色。PI使用课堂观察、学生访谈、教师访谈和学生手工艺品来确定这些资源的优势和劣势，了解它们给教师带来的挑战和好处，并为未来的硬件、软件和课程开发提供建议。PI调查联网平板电脑技术的几个方面，这些方面可能会改善学生的学习。这些措施包括教师以无线方式为学生提供“及时”的资源和反馈；学生创建、复制和更改科学和数学表示法，以便与教师和其他学生共享，可能是匿名的；以及教师以学生可以轻松融入他们的最终产品的形式提供对学生作业的反馈。研究假设是基于对大学课堂的初步研究，所以这个项目调查了新的研究问题，并提供了关于这项技术在课堂上的潜在用途的新知识。

Through this two-year exploratory project, the PIs seek to understand the role that a network of tablet computers may play in elementary and middle school math and science classrooms. The PIs use classroom observations, student interviews, teacher interviews and student artifacts to identify the advantages and disadvantages of these resources, to understand what challenges and benefits they offer to teachers, and to offer recommendations for future hardware, software, and curriculum development.The PIs investigate several aspects of the networked tablet computer technology that may have the potential to improve student learning. These include teachers wirelessly providing "just in time" resources and feedback for students; students creating, duplicating and altering scientific and mathematical representations to share, possibly anonymously, with the teacher and other students; and teachers to providing feedback on student work in a form that students can easily incorporate into their final products. The research hypotheses are based on preliminary research in university classrooms so this project investigates novel research questions and provides new knowledge about the potential uses of this technology in classrooms.