The School Book 4.0: The Multitouch Learning Book as a Learning Companion

Abstract

This manuscript introduces the Multitouch Learning Book as a learning guide for school chemistry lessons. It is an e-book with integrated multimedia content, in which additional interactive materials are integrated. The use of chemistry lessons offers various advantages in terms of individual support, teaching methods and the combination of teaching with extra-curricular learning locations. Multitouch Learning Books can be grouped into the Huwer and Brünken (2018) model, which describes the dimensions of the use of digital media in individual learning processes. The first dimension describes the three operating modes of the tablet as an experimental tool, a learning tool, as well as a learning companion, the second dimension describes the methodological implementation of the tablet and the third dimension describes individualization. In addition, this document introduces the independently created Multitouch Learning Book on the topic of the particle model. During the preparation process, the current state of the art in research on the topics covered and the possibilities for individual funding was taken into account. In addition, an empirical study was conducted to investigate the influence on cognitive learning growth.

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“…It is freely available in English and German via our homepage [8]. E-books have the advantage that they offer static and dynamic information and that they can also be used for lab documentation [9]. Our e-book is offered in a full version for teachers and a student version.…”

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“…Alongside, gamification allows deeper assessment of students' competencies and contextual application of obtained knowledge; and evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of students at different stages of problem solving. In fact, gamification allows use of game thinking skills for solving specific tasks (Huwer et al, 2018).…”

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“…This methodical implementation represents the various operating modes away from the status quo (blue circle, Figure 1): Conservation of the prevailing culture, Augmentation of existing methods by innovative approaches using ICT, the modification of student tasks that characterize the essential design of the assignment, Redefinitions in that various apps allow tasks that were previously not possible, such as the creation of short video clips using an EXPlainistry. In our case we present a redefined method of how to build up pupil's knowledge about the rules and symbols in a chemistry laboratory [8].…”

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