Gidder: Groups in Digital Dialogue

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A research design project that combine wiki and mobile phone technologies to support high school students interpreting works of contemporary art across two settings, classroom and museum.

Groups in Digital Dialogue is a study of high school students interpreting modern and contemporary works of art. The knowledge domain is art history, a curriculum subject in which students are expected to not only master terminology and knowledge about artists and works -- but also to critically inquire and engage in meaning making processes. Museums are particularly interested in teenagers as a visitor group, and ICT-supported communication represents a means of achieving this goal, as youths are generally competent and familiar with many forms of digital technology. High school students are thus chosen for the study because they tend to make an effort to understand contemporary art, but also because they are a target audience for both contemporary art museums and developers of new mobile technologies. A combination of wiki and mobile phone technologies will be used across two settings, classroom and museum.

Gidder is a research design project that is part of the interdisciplinary 'Digital Design' initiative at UiO.  

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