Learning historical and cultural contents via mobile treasure hunting in five-harbor district of Tainan, Taiwan

Stis Wu, Alex Chang, Maiga Chang, Yu Ren Yen, Jia Sheng Heh

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Abstract

Traditional formal education asks students studying in classroom and listening to teacher's lecturing. Recent years, teachers are taking students out from the classroom and doing field trip for learning history and cultural contents. Students can benefit from situated learning theory by interacting with the historical objects, local people, and cultural atmosphere. This research combines treasure hunting and mobile phone together to create a mobile treasure hunting learning situation for students learning historical and cultural contents during the field trip. In this mobile treasure hunting learning model, students act as hunters who can get hints through their mobile phones to find the treasures - the knowledge of historical and cultural contents. The mobile phones provide students not only display interface of treasure hunting maps and clues, but also position locator and treasure collector. In the experiment that eighteen elementary school students (5th Grade) learning in five-harbor district of Tainan, Taiwan.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education, WMUTE 2010
Subtitle of host publicationMobile Social Media for Learning and Education in Formal and Informal Settings
Pages213-215
Number of pages3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education, WMUTE 2010 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 12 Apr. 201016 Apr. 2010

Publication series

Name6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education, WMUTE 2010: Mobile Social Media for Learning and Education in Formal and Informal Settings

Conference

Conference6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education, WMUTE 2010
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityKaohsiung
Period12/04/1016/04/10

Keywords

  • Culture course
  • Elementary school
  • Field trip
  • History course
  • Mobile learning situated learning
  • Mobile phone
  • Treasure hunting

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