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Collaborative and Constructive Learning of Elementary School Children in Experiental Learning Spaces along the Virtuality Continuum
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2002
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B. G. Teubner
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Learning is an active, constructive and collaborative process, where people construct knowledge from their
experiences in the world. Especially children need to learn through their senses and through physical activity.
However, there are few experiental learning environments for school children available, which involve the
senses and physical activity. Reasons put forward for this situation are the nature of the concepts to be learned
and partly the lack of manipulative learning material. This paper introduces a mixed reality learning
space collaboratively constructed by elementary school children during recent teaching experiments. During
the process of constructing and interacting with the learning space along a virtuality continuum the children
make learning experiences, which can be interpreted in a semiotic way and which allows the children intuitively
understand concepts from the two disciplines of computer science and of the arts.