TY - GEN
T1 - Families’ imaginations in a meteorology workshop
T2 - 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020
AU - Chiu, Yu Chen
AU - Zimmerman, Heather Toomey
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant #MG-77-16-0137-16. The views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The paper presents a qualitative case study of families’ imagination practices around weather in two informal learning settings. The study investigates families’ imagined weather phenomena and meteorological practices as they created weather stations using the prototyping tool littleBits. The work is grounded in cultural-historical theory related to artifacts, imagination, and science representations. Participants include 7 families from two weather workshops, and data comprise families’ video and audio recordings. The findings show that prototyping artifacts — the technological tools — materially and culturally mediated how families imagined and represented science phenomena and practices. The study contributes to understanding the role of imagination in children and families’ science learning and science representations.
AB - The paper presents a qualitative case study of families’ imagination practices around weather in two informal learning settings. The study investigates families’ imagined weather phenomena and meteorological practices as they created weather stations using the prototyping tool littleBits. The work is grounded in cultural-historical theory related to artifacts, imagination, and science representations. Participants include 7 families from two weather workshops, and data comprise families’ video and audio recordings. The findings show that prototyping artifacts — the technological tools — materially and culturally mediated how families imagined and represented science phenomena and practices. The study contributes to understanding the role of imagination in children and families’ science learning and science representations.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102941382
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 146
EP - 153
BT - 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
A2 - Gresalfi, Melissa
A2 - Horn, Ilana Seidel
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Y2 - 19 June 2020 through 23 June 2020
ER -