The Effect of Tangible Artifacts, Gender and Subjective Technical Competence on Teaching Programming to Seventh Graders

Brauner, Philipp; Leonhardt, Thiemo; Ziefle, Martina; Schroeder, Ulrik

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11376-5_7

Cited by 23 publications

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“…This results in a better performance in single tasks as well as in increased self-confidence. This is in turn beneficial for the learning outcome, which is also compliant with other studies [36,37]. In addition, well-known spatial as well as temporal conditions facilitate orientation and satisfaction of users in the virtual world.…”

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confidence: 81%

3D Interactions between Virtual Worlds and Real Life in an E-Learning Community

Lucke

Zender

2011

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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Virtual worlds became an appealing and fascinating component of today's internet. In particular, the number of educational providers that see a potential for E-Learning in such new platforms increases. Unfortunately, most of the environments and processes implemented up to now do not exceed a virtual modelling of real-world scenarios. In particular, this paper shows that Second Life can be more than just another learning platform. A flexible and bidirectional link between the reality and the virtual world enables synchronous and seamless interaction between users and devices across both worlds. The primary advantages of this interconnection are a spatial extension of face-to-face and online learning scenarios and a closer relationship between virtual learners and the real world.

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Section: Social and Pedagogical Aspectssupporting

confidence: 81%

3D Interactions between Virtual Worlds and Real Life in an E-Learning Community

Lucke

Zender

2011

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Technology experience was captured on three different dimensions: Usage frequency (TUF) and perceived ease of use (TPEU) across several electronic devices and self-efficacy in interacting with technology (SET) were measured on a scale by Beier [7]. Self-efficacy profoundly influences perceived ease of use, effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and learnability when interacting with electronic devices [13,12] and is influenced by age and gender [4].…”

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Ubiquitous Computing at its best: Serious exercise games for older adults in ambient assisted living environments – a technology acceptance perspective

Brauner¹,

Holzinger²,

Ziefle³

2015

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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Ubiquitous computing and ambient assisted living environments offer promising solutions to meet the demographic change. An example are serious games for health care: Regular exercises mediated through games increase health, well-being, and autonomy of the residents whilst at the same time reducing the costs for caregiving. To understand which factors contribute to an increased acceptance of such exercise games in ambient assisted living environments, a prototypic game was evaluated with 32 younger and 32 older players. Game performance is influenced by age, need for achievement, and also gender. Acceptance and projected use are related to the believe in making the game a habit, current gaming frequency, and social influences. Notably, the game increased the perceived health of the subjects, which is an important issue. This article concludes with guidelines to successfully introduce serious exercise games into health care and future ideas to realize social inclusion in game design. on Serious Games Research Article 2 P. Brauner et al. Games for Health (specifically Exercise Games or Exergames), and technology acceptance research, that are presented in the following section.

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“…The empirical evidence in Brauner et al [4] suggests that tangible turtles have mild advantages over turtles presented visually. The results suggest that using tangible robots encourages a positive attitude towards STEM topics, although no considerable effects were found.…”

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“…Lego offers a complete, ready to use Bluetooth API 4 in their firmware that can be used in this module. The preparation of the laptops includes the installation of Eclipse 5 and the Android SDK 6 , as well as necessary smartphone drivers.…”

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Using smartphones to motivate secondary school students for informatics

Holz

Leonhardt

Schroeder

2011

Proceedings of the 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

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By analyzing and regarding the specific multimedia interests of both sexes, two theses for creating gender-sensitive and active learning environments were developed. They focus on integrating smartphones as interesting everyday objects into computer science courses to raise motivation. In the developed learning environment the students program an Android app in Java to remote control a Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot over Bluetooth by using the smartphones orientation sensor. A second version works with wheeled Arduino microcontrollers instead of NXT, to check whether the smartphone-induced motivation could be transferred to intensified technological topics. The learning environments were evaluated and the results show that using smartphones can have a highly motivational effect on students of both sexes.

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The Effect of Tangible Artifacts, Gender and Subjective Technical Competence on Teaching Programming to Seventh Graders

Cited by 23 publications

References 10 publications

3D Interactions between Virtual Worlds and Real Life in an E-Learning Community

3D Interactions between Virtual Worlds and Real Life in an E-Learning Community

Ubiquitous Computing at its best: Serious exercise games for older adults in ambient assisted living environments – a technology acceptance perspective

Using smartphones to motivate secondary school students for informatics

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