Educational Affordances of Ubiquitous Learning Environment for Natural Science Learning

This study applies a developed Environment of Ubiquitous Learning with Educational Resources (EULER) and conducts a natural science learning to explore its educational affordances. The EULER helps teachers deliver lessons on site and cultivate student competency in adopting information technology to improve learning. To explore educational affordances, the proposed EULER is used for natural science learning. Participants include four elementary school teachers and 36 fifth-grade students. This study reveals eight educational affordances inferred students’ responses. The findings may not only help teacher understand how does ubiquitous computing technology aid natural science teaching, but also assist student realize how does information technology improve learning.