TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning in and beyond school gardens with cyber-physical systems
AU - Zuiker, Steven
AU - Wright, Kyle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/9/3
Y1 - 2015/9/3
N2 - This design-based research study considers the learner-generated design and refinement of a school garden. We report one enactment of the Connected Gardening project in order to illuminate and understand how a fourth-grade class organizes and refines its garden plot using observations of the physical environment and evaluations of data from a networked digital probe. By examining the ways individuals, materials, and activities influence, and are influenced by, one another, our qualitative analysis characterizes interplay among an ecosystem, a garden and graphical representations of environmental indicators in real time and over time. We consider the novel affordances of such a cyber-physical systems for supporting participatory culture within yet beyond school classrooms.
AB - This design-based research study considers the learner-generated design and refinement of a school garden. We report one enactment of the Connected Gardening project in order to illuminate and understand how a fourth-grade class organizes and refines its garden plot using observations of the physical environment and evaluations of data from a networked digital probe. By examining the ways individuals, materials, and activities influence, and are influenced by, one another, our qualitative analysis characterizes interplay among an ecosystem, a garden and graphical representations of environmental indicators in real time and over time. We consider the novel affordances of such a cyber-physical systems for supporting participatory culture within yet beyond school classrooms.
KW - design-based research
KW - garden-based learning
KW - participatory culture
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U2 - 10.1080/10494820.2015.1063512
DO - 10.1080/10494820.2015.1063512
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940436393
SN - 1049-4820
VL - 23
SP - 556
EP - 577
JO - Interactive Learning Environments
JF - Interactive Learning Environments
IS - 5
ER -