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GUIDELINES FOR TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN A LIVE SCIENCE SCHOOL SETTING
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The aim of this study is to understand how teachers appropriate and use digital technologies as structuring resources for their students learning science and mathematics within an interactive science centre. In order to understand how learning happens, a conceptual framework and guidelines were developed for teachers to prepare and run activities with children. Teachers use the framework to setup activities to promote interaction of children with existing modules in the exhibitions, making experiments, collecting data, analysing it and sharing the results with their peers. On the methodological level, this study assumes an exploratory nature with a qualitative perspective, involving the teachers participating in the project. The results show that teachers considered the conceptual framework and guidelines necessary as well as extremely useful and stimulating for the development of learning activities.
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