A New Way to Use Wikipedia in Education: A Pilot Study of Map-like Wikipedia Visualization on iPad

Abstract

Abstract-iPad has started to appear in classrooms recently. Studies show that the tablet computer engages students in learning and improves student performance. On the other hand, Wikipedia attracts many attentions in education field as well despite of worries about credibility and reliability. We have developed a prototype of interactive Map-like Wikipedia Visualization in an earlier research project. In order to test the feasibility of such a new technology in classrooms, we conducted an explorative study which combines the usage of iPad, Wikipedia and the visualization in a high school in Macau S.A.R. This paper presents the design of this study and the result we observed.

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“…The web app iFISH provides an engaging environment for playful exploration of restaurants (Pearce et al, 2012) and library books (Pearce et al, 2014), in which the usage of search keywords is eliminated. Pang et al (2014b) attempted to use computer-generated maps for knowledge exploration in classes. Exploration Wall is a touch-based software for incremental exploration and sense-making in a large information space (Klouche et al, 2015).…”