Abstract
Nowadays in the exam-oriented environment, the subject of Integrative Activities easily becomes neglected courses in Taiwan. The current teaching difficulties in the subject of integrative activities’ are as follows (1) students lack of reflections on textbooks, (2) unable to maintain learning motivation for a long time, (3) the way of assessment is not easy. To improve the teaching and learning difficulties of the subject in integrative activities, the purpose of this research was to integrate tablet PCs with the NovoClassroom Interactive Classroom System to build a digital learning environment, entitled NICE learning situation (NovoClassroom integrated Cooperative Environment), to facilitate learners’ discussion and thinking of environment issues through quiz, voting as well as reading activities and guide learners to have deeper reflections and the capabilities of internalization from the environment knowledge. According to the differences of the students’ learning achievements, students were divided into experimental group and control group. Through quantitative and qualitative methods the data were collected and analyzed. Results of this study reveal that: (1) 75% of learners have advantage in learning achievements of environment knowledge; (2) “Notes Function” and “Push Function “in “Interactive Classroom System” could enhance 83% learners’ reading interests; 76% learners’ questioning and answering, and 85% learners’ learning interests; (3) In the Q&A activity, “Push Function” offers the learners to share their answers with each other. The good answer will be pushed in class, which promotes the learners’ thinking abilities and makes them bring up more opinions. This study applied “NICE” to integrate activities and 7 elements of “REFLECT” are identified from using the environment and learning effects. The seven elements are R: Reservation of learning record, E: Encouragement of learning thinking, F: Feedback, L: Learning Jointly, E: E-learning environment implementation, C: Collaboration of small groups, T: Transformation of learning behaviors. Finally, some suggestions are given for future studies on instructional design in the integrated activities and functional design in interactive classroom system.