iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), went back to a school in Lancaster to run Wizard-of-Oz studies to investigate how speech can be used to tailor feedback. At IOE and BBK, we were particularly interested in how the affective state of a student can be detected through speech and other interactions with the platform,…
You’ve heard why the iTalk2Learn Consortium think Fractions Lab is so exciting and now it’s time to hear what the students think… The Institute of Education has been trialling Fractions Lab in schools throughout the UK. In this blog post, one of the teachers at Moorside Primary School tells us how the trial impacted upon students in his class. …
The Institute of Education (IOE) have been working with Mathematics Specialist Teachers (MaST) from the Midlands and the Northwest of England to share and test the latest version of Fractions Lab. In our two latest workshops, kindly facilitated by Edge Hill University during their March MaST days, we were interested in how Fractions Lab may…
7/6/13 The Institute of Education (IOE) worked with a small group of 10 to 11 year old students towards the end of the academic year to undertake three main tasks. The students that participated in the research were highly motivated high achievers. Discovering students’ fraction representations The aim of this trial was to observe…