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Item A tangible user interface to facilitate learning of trigonometry(2019) Zamorano Urrutia, Francisco; Cortés Loyola, Catalina; Herrera Marín, MauricioIn mathematics education, studies reveal difficulties in the teaching-learning of trigonometry in secondary and higher education, due to the fact that students are not encouraged to achieve a deep conceptual understanding of abstract concepts. Several studies demonstrate that incorporating digital technologies has a positive impact on students’ learning. However, most of the existing technologies do not consider the use of the body and multiple senses. Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) in contrast, can host bodily interactions that have the potential of enhancing learning. Nonetheless, there is a lack of applications of TUIs for trigonometry education. This study consisted of designing and validating a tangible interface for the teaching-learning of basic concepts of trigonometry. The interface hosts a pedagogical experience that privileges exploration through physical manipulation and fosters intuitive and collaborative learning. A Pre-Test was applied to 121 students to determine previous knowledge, yielding a 29.1% performance. After two sessions using the interface, the results of a Post-Test reveal an increase of 37.1%, confirming the edu- cational effectiveness of the interface and the pedagogical experience to facilitate learning of basic concepts of trigonometry.Item Early childhood teachers making multiliterate learning environments: The emergence of a spatial design thinking process(2020) Cortés Loyola, Catalina; Adlerstein Grimbergb, Cynthia; Bravo Colomer, UrsulaGlobally, a critical debate about multiliteracies’ teaching in early childhood education is intensifying. Teachers and researchers worldwide are rethinking ‘multiliteracies pedagogy’ and ‘multiliterate learning environments’ to design innovative and meaningful educational spaces for young children. They pursue to better account for the role (and entanglement) of spaces, places, materiality, bodies, and power in early childhood education pedagogies. Multiliterate learning environments research offers the possibility to reconceptualize early childhood classrooms as real sites of thinking revolution and unique spaces for theorizing new contours of literacy pedagogy. This study explored and elicited early childhood teachers’ thinking and making multiliterate learning environments, with an ethnographic approach. We designed a single-case study emplaced in a university’s laboratory preschool. The participant observation took place for five months and had two different outspreading moments. First, to explore and familiarize with the preschool culture and to penetrate the learning environment codes, and the second, to produce ethnographic data collaboratively with in-depth interviews. Findings show that teachers’ design thinking process is culturally situated and ‘child interest- driven,’ enabling some child agency in spatial meaning-making as co-authors of the multiliterate learning environments they inhabit. The design thinking process unfolds through an ongoing iterative and collaborative four-phased-cycle. Teachers ideate and reflect on multiliteracies and place-making decisions that materialize learning environments based on the world of children. While making multiliterate environments through this spatial design thinking process, teachers are empowered as designers and as makers of a ‘third teacher,’ where a wide-ranging diversity of people, texts, practices, meanings, and cultural contexts intersect to build communication.