Smith, Hilary, Underwood, Joshua, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine Ann, Luckin, Rosemary and Fraser Stanton, Danae (2006) Identifying tools to support schools' collaborative teaching and learning. In: E-Science, Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. IEEE Computer Society, p140. ISBN 0769527345

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Abstract

Integration of e-Science and Grid technologies into curriculum teaching is currently an ambitious aim for teachers and school infrastructures to organise. However, it can expose classroom learners and teachers to a wider community of specialists and interested others, enriching the classroom experience beyond the knowledge of the local teacher. This paper reflects on two practical e-Science projects that utilised mobile hand-held technologies to bring the concepts of collaborative e-Science and the Grid to young scientists. Students engaged in hands-on exploration of their surroundings, and were able to communicate with pollution specialists and with a remote classroom of children who had used similar sensors. Communication and data sharing activities in these sessions exposed a requirement for a suite of tools and technologies not currently accessible to schools. From qualitative analysis of data across these two projects, we present a collection of supporting tools to help achieve this aim and future research direction.

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA0075 Electronic computers. Computer science
Depositing User:	Chris Keene
Date Deposited:	29 Feb 2008
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2019 10:19
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1461

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