Development of a Pointing Type Annotation System to Facilitate Discussion for Fostering Knowledge Acquisition about Experiment Skills in Primary School Science Class

Abstract

We developed a pointing-type annotation system which runs on a tablet PC and helps learners to externalize and share their viewpoints on an educational manga case method teaching material, in order to support a teacher training course student aimed at fostering their acquisition of scientific knowledge about experimentation skills that they will use in real classes. By using the system, a learner can annotate a point that he or she has focused on within an educational manga page by using a touch operation to stick a “pin” on the point of interest and share such pins with other learners by superimposing their pins on his or her own annotated manga page. The results of our evaluation show that the system proved to be effective for the pupils to facilitate their learning and science skills development.