Creating a BYOD Tour Around Poznan, Poland – A Location-based Project for Teenage Students

Authors

  • Magdalena Agnieszka Brzezinska WSB University, Poznan, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v8i2.7994

Keywords:

location-based learning, place-based learning, BYOD, project-based learning

Abstract


This paper focuses on a project that encompasses place-based learning, location-based learning and problem-based learning in teaching of English as a foreign language. It shows how a project of this type can increase student motivation and help teenagers embrace local culture. It originated when the author of this paper was introduced to the Wandering platform and the Experiencity platform by one of the co-creators of the former, Ms. Talila Yehiel, a museum expert and a designer of tailor-made sites for museum visits. After examining the various options of the Experiencity platform on her own, and upon developing two walks: The Past and the Present: Jewish Heritage Walk in Bielsko-Biala and Karl Korn Walk, the author undertook to test it with her teenage students, designing a completely new location-based activity: Be Active and Explore Poznan. As recommended by Piaget, the author challenged her students and was a guide and facilitator rather than a lecturer. She made the students work together and find answers and solutions to the problems posed. She also trusted Vygotsky and Dewey in assuming that learners are social individuals and place-based education helps “students connect with their particular corners of the world” (Woodhouse and Knapp, [9]). The walk demonstrates interaction of teenagers with and in space: it inspects the particular characteristics of a place, it is cross-curricular and intrinsically empirical, and it forms a relation between place, self and community (Woodhouse and Knapp, [9]). It also uses local environment to make students active citizens, contributing to the society (compare [7], p.7).

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Published

2018-05-02

How to Cite

Brzezinska, M. A. (2018). Creating a BYOD Tour Around Poznan, Poland – A Location-based Project for Teenage Students. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 8(2), pp. 23–31. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v8i2.7994

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