"It helped me do my science." A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning

Jason Yip; June Ahn; Tamara Clegg; Elizabeth Bonsignore; Daniel Pauw; Michael Gubbels

doi:10.1145/2593968.2593969

"It helped me do my science." A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning

Jason Yip, June Ahn, Tamara Clegg, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Daniel Pauw, Michael Gubbels

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the design evolution of two social media (SM) tools: Scientific INQuiry (SINQ), which transformed into ScienceKit. We detail our motivations for using SM tools in science learning and the design decisions we made over a 2-year, design-based research project. Our designs grew from our experiences using SM tools in the field and co-designing these systems with children. Our longitudinal case study and design narrative contribute to our understanding of the design and use of SM tools to support children's scientific inquiry. Specifically, we detail (1) the affordances and constraints we gleaned from the design evolution of SINQ to ScienceKit, (2) the potential of SM to guide learning behaviors, and (3) the role of SM for children and the community of adults and peers who support them.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	IDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	155-164
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450322720
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2593968.2593969
State	Published - 2014
Event	13th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2014 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: Jun 17 2014 → Jun 20 2014

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Other	13th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2014
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	6/17/14 → 6/20/14

Keywords

Children
Co-design
Learning technologies
Science learning
Social media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Yip, J., Ahn, J., Clegg, T., Bonsignore, E., Pauw, D., & Gubbels, M. (2014). "It helped me do my science." A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning. In IDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 155-164). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2593968.2593969

"It helped me do my science." A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning. / Yip, Jason; Ahn, June; Clegg, Tamara et al.
IDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 155-164 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Yip, J, Ahn, J, Clegg, T, Bonsignore, E, Pauw, D & Gubbels, M 2014, "It helped me do my science." A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning. in IDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 155-164, 13th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2014, Aarhus, Denmark, 6/17/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2593968.2593969

Yip J, Ahn J, Clegg T, Bonsignore E, Pauw D, Gubbels M. "It helped me do my science." A case of designing social media technologies for children in science learning. In IDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 155-164. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/2593968.2593969

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