Facilitator, functionary, friend or foe? Studying the role of iPads within learning activities across a school year

Anne-Marie Mann; Uta Hinrichs; Janet C.  Read; Aaron John Quigley

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858251

Facilitator, functionary, friend or foe? Studying the role of iPads within learning activities across a school year

Anne-Marie Mann, Uta Hinrichs, Janet C. Read, Aaron John Quigley

School of Computer Science

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We present the findings from a longitudinal study of iPad use in a Primary school classroom. While tablet devices have found their way into classroom environments, we still lack in-depth and long-term studies of how they integrate into everyday classroom activities. Our findings illustrate in-classroom tablet use and the broad range of learning activities in subjects such as maths, languages, social sciences, and even physical education. Our observations expand current models on teach- ing and learning supported by tablet technology. Our findings are child-centred, focusing on three different roles that tablets can play as part of learning activities: Friend, Functionary, and Facilitator. This new perspective on in-classroom tablet use can facilitate critical discussions around the integration and impact of these devices in the educational context, from a design and educational point of view.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1833-1845
ISBN (Print)	9781450333627
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858251
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2016
Event	2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16) - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 http://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

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Conference	2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16)
Abbreviated title	CHI'16
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	7/05/16 → 12/05/16
Internet address	http://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

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Young children
Tablets
Classrooms
Evaluation
Education

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Mann, A-M, Hinrichs, U, Read, JC & Quigley, AJ 2016, Facilitator, functionary, friend or foe? Studying the role of iPads within learning activities across a school year. in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 1833-1845, 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16), San Jose, CA, California, United States, 7/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858251

Facilitator, functionary, friend or foe? Studying the role of iPads within learning activities across a school year. / Mann, Anne-Marie; Hinrichs, Uta; Read, Janet C. et al.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2016. p. 1833-1845.

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