Learning Historical and Cultural Contents via Mobile Treasure Hunting in Five-Harbor District of Tainan, Taiwan

Abstract

Traditional formal education asks students studying in classroom and listening to teacher's lecturing. Recent years, teachers are taking students out from the classroom and doing field trip for learning history and cultural contents. Students can benefit from situated learning theory by interacting with the historical objects, local people, and cultural atmosphere. This research combines treasure hunting and mobile phone together to create a mobile treasure hunting learning situation for students learning historical and cultural contents during the field trip. In this mobile treasure hunting learning model, students act as hunters who can get hints through their mobile phones to find the treasures - the knowledge of historical and cultural contents. The mobile phones provide students not only display interface of treasure hunting maps and clues, but also position locator and treasure collector. In the experiment that eighteen elementary school students (5th Grade) learning in five-harbor district of Tainan, Taiwan.