An app for learning to write: preliminary results from a primary school study

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Published: Aug 31, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/147
Keywords:
Educational Technology, IT, Participatory Design, Design-Based Research, Tablet, Writing, Primary School, Entrepreneurship Education, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

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Liana Peria
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze
Claudia Perlmuter
Già Scuola-Città Pestalozzi, Firenze
Maria Ranieri
Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione e Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze

Abstract

This paper presents results from the first phase of a research project aimed at developing a tablet application for teaching primary-school children to write. The study adopts the methodological principles of Design-Based Research. The introduction explains the theoretical assumptions that guided the project, with particular reference to studies on the educational affordances of tablets and on different approaches to the teaching of writing. Subsequently, the article illustrates the context, method, phases of work, and results from the first research phase. This involved the students explaining their ideas about the writing process and about the types of technological support the might improve / facilitate that process. The article concludes with a discussion of the results and future developments of the research.

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2014): TD62 - Entrepreneurship education
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Articles - General topics

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Author Biography

Liana Peria, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni

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