Young children collaboratively develop their own gestures to represent and explain challenging science concepts in a mixed-reality environment¶

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Currency · newest study 2023 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In the STEP MR environment, students collaboratively develop their own gestures to represent and explain challenging concepts such as states of matter. → Jacob Fortman 2023

Evidence¶

Jacob Fortman 2023¶

Jacob Fortman, Rebecca Quintana. (2023). Fostering collaborative and embodied learning with extended reality: Special issue introduction. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-023-09404-1

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The introduction's summary of the Tu, Danish, Humburg, Zhou, Mathayas, Enyedy, and Jen STEP study, analyzing how young children use gestures to communicate understanding of particles, reports "students collaboratively develop their own gestures to represent and explain challenging concepts."

"Findings show that students collaboratively develop their own gestures to represent and explain challenging concepts."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Communication Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

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