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BingoHunt : Mobile Ubiquitous Vocabulary Learning. Ben Bederson, Tak Yeon Lee, June Ahn Human-Computer Interaction Lab CS / iSchool University of Maryland www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson @bederson. How did you learn vocabulary?. Engagement. Motivate by: providing context and meaning
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BingoHunt: Mobile Ubiquitous Vocabulary Learning Ben Bederson, TakYeon Lee, June Ahn Human-Computer Interaction Lab CS / iSchool University of Maryland www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson @bederson
Engagement • Motivate by: • providing context and meaning • being social • using your body • Approach • use mobile phones => look for words in the natural environment
Status • Trials with kids in the lab • Feedback from teachers at Barrie school • Teachers more enthusiastic than I expected because they saw it as a general tool • Students could act out word • Suggestion to record audio instead of text hint
Potential • Fits well into existing curriculumAND teaching practices • Adaptability very important Limitations • Works best for concrete words
Software Engineering Mobile App • Higher quality / hardware access • Harder to write/ port • Hybrid • We wrote our own container • Many people now using PhoneGap
Key Points Tool that can be repurposed is MUCH more valuable Tech banned or embraced in classroom? => BOTH Learn more: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/bingohunt Ben Bederson - @bederson www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson Funded in part by Nokia