Let's do the time warp again – embodied learning of the concept of time in an applied school setting. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Loeffler, Jonna; Raab, Markus; Cañal-Bruland, Rouwen
• Is Part Of: Interactive learning environments. Volume 31:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 397
• Page End: 406
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Educational technology -- United States -- Periodicals; 371.33
• DOI: 10.1080/10494820.2020.1789669
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-4820

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Embodied Cognition approaches suggest that movements influence the understanding of abstract concepts such as time. It follows that moving the arms as watch hands should boost children's learning to read the clock. In a school setting, we compared three learning conditions: an embodied (movement) condition, an interactive App condition, and a text condition. Age, self-reported enjoyment, and group size were controlled. In a clock-time-test, the embodied condition resulted in better performances than the mean of the other conditions in small, but not in large groups. This innovative, theory-informed approach may advance learning of abstract concepts in children.