2024-03-29T09:27:01Z
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:02001741
2023-01-16T04:26:36Z
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Using Virtual Crafting to Enhance Mathematical Learning
Smarason, Gunnlaugur
Kjartansdottir, Skulina
Thorsteinsson, Gisli
open access
Minecraft (MVLM)
primary education
pedagogy (GBLP)
teaching methods
playful learning
mathematics education
iPad
A research study was undertaken to examine use of a Minecraft Virtual Learning Makerspace (MVLM) to enhance mathematics teaching. The study took place in an elementary school in the west of Iceland. The participants were a group of seven-year-old students and their teacher using Minecraft to facilitate his mathematic teaching. The main purpose of the study was to examine the context of teaching and learning in a conventional classroom when students also work inside a virtual space. Video data was collected, students and teacher interviewed and observations carried out in the classroom. The data produced was qualitative, the analysis based on grounded theory principles and an interpretive paradigm. The key issues under consideration were: the role of teacher in a MVLM educational context and how the MVLM affects students’ learning practices. The results suggest that the students were motivated and used the MVLM in a creative manner that enabled an understanding of mathematical concepts and solving of mathematical problems. The MVLM provided the teacher with opportunities to assign interdisciplinary, project-based collaborative tasks. The research indicated the importance of the teacher, as a conventional instructor and facilitator when preparing and guiding students in the MVLM. Moreover, during their work he ensured they had flexibility, that enabled their collaboration in a playful learning context. This facilitated their greater understanding of mathematical concepts.
名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科 技術教育学(横山)研究室
Institute of Technology and Vocational Education Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
2021-10-31
eng
departmental bulletin paper
VoR
https://doi.org/10.18999/bulitv.24.8
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/0002001741
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001741
10.18999/bulitv.24.8
http://gijyutukyouikugaku.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_58.html
2189-6348
技術教育学の探求
Bulletin of Institute of Technology and Vocational Education
24
8
25
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2001741/files/bulitv_24_8.pdf
application/pdf
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2021-12-21