Multi-touch tables – what is the research telling us? Part 1.British Journal of Educational Technology 43(6): 1041-1054. Multi-touch tables and collaborative learning. There are two YouTube videos of the authors’ work here: Overall, the multi-touch tables increased joint attention through the ability to re-position and re-size images, encouraging social learning and, ultimately, joint understanding. Enlarging, moving and re-sizing images helped in shared attention and shared understanding.MTT engaged in more shared viewing of images and more inclined to assist each other and discuss images they were viewing.MTT learners created “ … a shared understanding of the task more quickly” (p.MTT enabled more interactive comments leading to higher levels of reasoning.Paper encouraged more independent and quasi-independent talk with more teacher involvement, MTT allowed for increased elaborative and negotiating talk with less teacher involvement.Appears that the enlarging function for images positively aided in successfully completing the task.All MTT groups exhibited shared learning strategies – sharing points of view, reading aloud, resizing material.The researchers used a triangulated approach in their study design with 32 year 6 students aged 10-11 in a school in the UK contrasting “… how small groups collaborated during a consensus-building activity on either a paper-based or multi-touch (MTT) version of the same task” (p. 1041)., with the premise that collaboration leads to enhanced group cognition “… process of articulating, negotiating and coordinating the different views of members of a group” (p. The study explored “… how the multi-touch compared with similar paper-based activities as a starting point to develop more pedagogically effective activates with more complex resources and interactions” (p. Multi-touch tables, therefore, appear to be a good tool for encouraging this kind of social learning. The authors suggested that “Research on collaborative learning tells us that groups who build on each other’s ideas, engaging in mutually responsive conversation about their task, are more likely to solve problems successfully and learn from the experience” (p. This, the final post (for now) in this series on multi-touch tables, reports on a 2012 research study undertaken by Higgins, Mercier, Burd and Joyce-Gibbons – Multi-touch tables and collaborative learning. Multi-touch tables: What is the research telling us Part 3.Multi-touch tables: What is the research telling us Part 2.Multi-touch tables: What is the research telling us Part 1.Effective interactives for social learning.enlarging, moving and re-sizing images which assists in shared attention and shared understanding.creating a shared understanding of the tasks more quickly.enabling more interactive comments leading to higher levels of reasoning.shared learning strategies – sharing points of view, reading aloud, resizing material.layered information encouraging deep exploration.Tables provide opportunities for visitor learning through: where possible use software that can be updated in-house.staff training is needed in turning on and off and resetting.good Internet connectivity is essential.
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