Group Spinner: recognizing and visualizing learning in the classroom for reflection, communication, and planning

Ahmed Kharrufa; Sally Rix; Timur Osadchiy; Anne Preston; Patrick Oliver

Group Spinner: recognizing and visualizing learning in the classroom for reflection, communication, and planning

Ahmed Kharrufa
, Sally Rix
, Timur Osadchiy
, Anne Preston
, Patrick Oliver

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Group Spinner is a digital visual tool intended to help teachers observe and reflect on children‘s collaborative technology-enhanced learning activities in the classroom. We describe the design of Group Spinner, which was informed by activity theory, previous work and teachers‘ focus group feedback. Based on a radar chart and a set of indicators, Group Spinner allows teachers to record in-class observations as to different aspects of group learning and learning behaviors, beyond the limited knowledge acquisition measures. Our exploratory study involved 6 teachers who used the tool for a total of 23 classes in subjects ranging from Maths and Geography to Sociology and Art. Semi-structured interviews with these teachers revealed a number of different uses of the tool. Depending on their experience and pedagogy, teachers considered Group Spinner to be a valuable tool to support awareness, reflection, communication, and/or planning.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 11 May 2017
Event	ACM CHI 2017 - Denver, U.S.A. Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017

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Conference	ACM CHI 2017
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17

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Note: This work was funded by EPSRC awards EP/M023001/1. This paper was published in CHI 2017,
ACM 978-1-4503-4655-9/17/05, pp.5556-5567.

Organising Body: Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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Computer science and informatics

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