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Talk of the Town mobile app platform: New method for engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities

Children do not just learn in the classroom. They engage in “informal learning” every day just by spending time with their family and peers. However, while researchers know this occurs, less is known about the science of this learning—how this learning works. This is so because investigators lack ac...

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Autores principales: Kominsky, Jonathan F., Bascandziev, Igor, Shafto, Patrick, Bonawitz, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36777208
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1110940
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description Children do not just learn in the classroom. They engage in “informal learning” every day just by spending time with their family and peers. However, while researchers know this occurs, less is known about the science of this learning—how this learning works. This is so because investigators lack access to those moments of informal learning. In this mini-review we present a technical solution: a mobile-based research platform called “Talk of the Town” that will provide a window into children’s informal learning. The tool will be open to all researchers and educators and is flexibly adaptable to these needs. It allows access to data that have never been studied before, providing a means for developing and testing vast educational interventions, and providing access to much more diverse samples than are typically studied in laboratories, homes, and science museums. The review details the promise and challenges associated with these new methods of data collection and family engagement in STEM learning sciences.
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spelling pubmed-99090042023-02-10 Talk of the Town mobile app platform: New method for engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities Kominsky, Jonathan F. Bascandziev, Igor Shafto, Patrick Bonawitz, Elizabeth Front Psychol Psychology Children do not just learn in the classroom. They engage in “informal learning” every day just by spending time with their family and peers. However, while researchers know this occurs, less is known about the science of this learning—how this learning works. This is so because investigators lack access to those moments of informal learning. In this mini-review we present a technical solution: a mobile-based research platform called “Talk of the Town” that will provide a window into children’s informal learning. The tool will be open to all researchers and educators and is flexibly adaptable to these needs. It allows access to data that have never been studied before, providing a means for developing and testing vast educational interventions, and providing access to much more diverse samples than are typically studied in laboratories, homes, and science museums. The review details the promise and challenges associated with these new methods of data collection and family engagement in STEM learning sciences. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9909004/ /pubmed/36777208 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1110940 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kominsky, Bascandziev, Shafto and Bonawitz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909004/
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