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This article introduces a new interaction model called Instrumental Interaction that extends and generalizes the principles of direct manipulation. It covers existing interaction styles, including traditional WIMP interfaces, as well...
DATE: January 1st, 2000
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The growing interest in integrating the arts across the curriculum represents an important change from previous concerns about teaching the structure of individual disciplines. It will require a change in...
DATE: November 1st, 1998
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In this paper, researchers at the Brookfield Zoo present a case study in evaluating a technology project involving partnerships between museums and formal education. THe focus is on the multiple-method...
DATE: September 1st, 1997
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This design experiment integrated studentsâ everyday discourses and knowledge into classroom scientific practice, thereby allowing for the creation of hybrid spaces, where students were able to meaningfully apply science learning...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This paper describes the integration of handheld computer technology into an existing web-based educational platform, the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) and the synergy it produces. This solution facilitated a...
DATE: January 1st, 2002
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In this paper, James Jensen of Ottawa's National Museum of Science and Technology (NMSTC) discusses a case study that provides guidance on how to integrate "effective market research" into museum...
DATE: January 1st, 1997
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Stroud Water Research Center (SWRC) will partner with Longwood Gardens (LG) to develop educational materials that help visitors understand the links between the hydrologic and carbon cycles. The goal is...
DATES: September 15th, 2009 - August 31st, 2012
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This four year project led by The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) will continue fostering interactions among projects funded by the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education...
DATES: May 1st, 2010 - October 31st, 2013
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is developing an innovative exhibit and teaching laboratory called INTERACTIONS. The unique feature of INTERACTIONS is the combination of an exploratory, interactive natural...
DATES: September 1st, 1990 - February 28th, 1993
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The Franklin Institute Science Museum will develop, install and evaluate a museum-wide Interactive Computer Information System (ICIS) designed to enhance visitors' exhibit learning through museum-wide visitor information access and connectivity....
DATES: January 15th, 1990 - June 30th, 1993
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The Space Science Institute will present Earth System Science (ESS) in a new project called "InterActive Earth," which includes a 6,000-square foot traveling exhibition and a comprehensive education program. Earth...
DATES: October 1st, 1999 - September 30th, 2000
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Classroom tasks should develop a spirit of inquiry and a sense of delight in discovery that will become part of the individual's learning style. Yet in the traditional elementary classroom,...
DATE: April 1st, 2001
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Inventure Place will present "Interactive Experiences Introducing Polymer Science." This planning grant will enable Inventure Place and its partner, the College of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of...
DATES: October 1st, 1999 - September 30th, 2001
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The award winning, computer animated, broadcast quality videotapes on a number of mathematics topics developed at California Institute of Technology under two previous NSF grants are the basis of this...
DATES: July 15th, 1996 - June 30th, 2000
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This report describes and discusses the findings from a field study that was conducted at the Vancouver Aquarium to investigate how visitors explore and experience large horizontal multi-touch tables as...
DATE: January 24th, 2011
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In this article, Michael Pierce of the Anniston Museum summarizes D. Jenkins's research on interactive technologies featured in the "Proceedings of the 1985 American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums."...
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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Scientists regularly use interactive visualizations and models of abstract phenomena in their work. There is a growing body of evidence showing students could also benefit from interactive visualizations. This study...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Interactivesâcomputers and other multimedia components, physical manipulatives (including whole-body and tabletop activities), and simulationsâoccur in all types of museums. There is considerable interest in the nature of the learning that...
DATE: April 1st, 2004
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Museums are shifting from being object and collection centered, towards a focus on space, affect and audience by producing multi-dimensional spatial non-lineal experiences. Interactivity is used unquestionably to verify this...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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The University of Central Florida Media Convergence Laboratory, New York Hall of Science, and the Queens Museum of Art are developing a 3-D, multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) of the 1964/65...
DATES: September 1st, 2009 - August 31st, 2013
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The on-line information environment has changed dramatically since the earliest on-line systems emerged in the early 1960s. Growth has occurred both in the number of users of on-line information as...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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In this paper, research on interest and motivation is revisited in the context of informal science learning (ISL) settings such as museums, out-of school or after-school clubs or groups, science...
DATE: January 1st, 2007
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Adolescents often pursue learning opportunities both in and outside school once they become interested in a topic. In this paper, a learning ecology framework and an associated empirical research agenda...
DATE: January 1st, 2006
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The tool was created by 4H Nebraska to measure studentsâ (7-10th graders ) learning and attitudes towards science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The tool also assesses studentsâ attitude about GPS...
DATE: November 30th, 2010
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In this article, Paul Orselli, president and chief instigator at Paul Orselli Workshop (POW!), discusses the impact of "internal capacity" or a museum's ability to handle core functions like exhibit...
DATE: January 23rd, 2012
