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Touch-screen manipulation of electrons and bonds as an interactive multimedia design for abstract reaction mechanisms

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Description

The pattern transfers control of learning to students through touch-screen interaction with multimedia content: students slide their fingers on the screen to move electrons or atoms, form and break bonds, predict mechanistic steps, and check their answers. The article states that "By transferring the control of learning to students with its touch-screen feature, students are able to form and break apart a chemical bond by sliding their fingers on the screen", enabling analysis of electron movement and bond formation and breaking. Activities were designed around the revised Bloom's taxonomy levels from Remember to Create.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Interactive multimedia content with digital imagery, sound, and animation coordinated with student interactivity
  • Practice activities that apply the principles of nucleophile, electrophile, and free radicals

Constraints

  • Applied to fundamental organic reaction mechanism concepts; the article reports field trials with other difficult concepts as future work

Target Learners

  • Net-generation university students accustomed to mobile devices

Learning Goals

  • Visualizing and predicting the mechanistic steps of organic reaction mechanisms and developing conceptual thinking

Claims

  • Ocra Mobile Prototype Element

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Tenku Putri Norishah Tenku Shariman and Othman Talib. (2017). OCRA, A Mobile Learning Prototype for Understanding Chemistry Concepts. 14th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2017). https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/978-989-8533-68-5
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title Touch-screen manipulation of electrons and bonds as an interactive multimedia design for abstract reaction mechanisms
description The pattern transfers control of learning to students through touch-screen interaction with multimedia content: students slide their fingers on the screen to move electrons or atoms, form and break bonds, predict mech...
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