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During the last couple of decades our perception of what constitutes a good learning environment has changed. Thanks to the use of technology, education is evolving from a passive model towards a more productive model, where students generate knowledge, teach each other, and collaborate on activities that make learning fun and interesting. In some previous works we have adopted this attitude: creating interactive installations thought for learning in an amusing way. Design-based research has demonstrated its potential as a methodology suitable to both research and design of technology-enhanced learning environments, a further step consists in co-design: students directly involved in designing with researchers. This paper provides some comments on the evaluation of the learning experience using two interactive installations promoting eco-friendly behaviours, and describe our experience in codesigning with pupils. We also report the ethnographic research performed underlining the weaknesses and the strengths, the difficulties and findings during the whole work.

In the last decade, the use of technology in learning environments has impressively increased. Moreover, children are daily exposed to technology even though there is not a wide offer of these advanced solutions properly developed for them. Technology and learning have started to be combined, so it becomes relevant to offer to pupils solutions expressly developed for them. Some previous works of us have been developed adopting this attitude: creating interactive installations thought for learning in an amusing way. A further step consists in codesign: pupils directly involved in designing interactive installations with researchers who have developed them. Co-designing requires a proper approach. We describe here our experience in co-designing with pupils two interactive installations promoting eco-friendly behaviours. We report the ethnographic research performed underlining the weaknesses and the strengths, the difficulties and findings while co-designing with pupils.

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