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A Structured Inquiry into a Digital Story: Students Report the Making of a Superball

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  • Johanna Penttilä

    (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)

  • Veera Kallunki

    (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)

  • Hannele M. Niemi

    (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)

  • Jari Multisilta

    (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland)

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Schools have been islands isolated from mobile technologies for a long time. In Finland, schools are investing in mobile technologies with the aim of providing a tablet for each student. This trend enables classes to adopt practices where students not only use ready-made learning materials but generate content as well. This paper aims to investigate student-generated digital stories as learning artefacts through a case example from two chemistry classes in a primary school. After introducing a method of creating digital stories from a structured inquiry, the paper presents an in-depth analysis of a specific type of story, its construction and conceptual learning outcomes related to the story's topic (i.e., chemical reaction). The results indicate that storytelling based on a structured inquiry is suited for novice science learners. In the future, teaching visual communication skills and story scripting to students should be emphasised to make the stories more sophisticated.

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  • Johanna Penttilä & Veera Kallunki & Hannele M. Niemi & Jari Multisilta, 2016. "A Structured Inquiry into a Digital Story: Students Report the Making of a Superball," International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), IGI Global, vol. 8(3), pages 19-34, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jmbl00:v:8:y:2016:i:3:p:19-34
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