Abstract
In this forum we celebrate research that helps to successfully bring the benefits of computing technologies to children, older adults, people with disabilities, and other populations that are often ignored in the design of mass-marketed products.
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Editor
- National Research Council. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2012.Google Scholar
- Songer, N.B. BioKIDS: An animated conversation on the development of complex reasoning in science. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. R.K. sawyer, ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006, 355--370.Google Scholar
- McNeill, K.L. and Krajcik, J. Supporting Grade 5--8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 2011Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Pervasive science: using mobile devices and the cloud to support science education
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