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Abstract
This article reports on reusable mobile digital learning resources designed to assist human geography undergraduate students in exploring the geographies of life in Dublin. Developing active learning that goes beyond data collection to encourage observation and thinking in the field is important. Achieving this in the context of large class sizes presents several challenges. Combining in situ learning with spatially accurate historical and contemporary multimedia, a set of location-aware digital mobile tools, or mediascapes, was developed. How scaffolding can be achieved in such a context, focusing on the development of students’ observational, enquiry, and thinking skills in the field was explored.
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Claire Jarvis
Claire Jarvis is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. Her research interest areas are geographic information science, spatial thinking, and geographic visualization.
Nicholas Tate
Nicholas Tate is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. He researches and teaches across a number of areas of geographic information science and earth observation, with a particular emphasis on surface analysis.
Jennifer Dickie
Jennifer Dickie is a research associate in the Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. Her research interest areas are in socioenvironmental interactions, particularly around aspects of climate change and energy.
Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. His research interest areas are in the cultural and historical geographies of social movement activism, and the geographies of sexualities.