Preliminary Study to the Inquiry Learning Social Network Supported by the Internet of Things

Abstract

Traditional WebQuest-oriented inquiry learning cannot help students develop good scientific literacy, because students are very dependent on network resources. They cannot obtain reliable evidence, and they also cannot think independently. The result is that they cannot explore science deeply. With the development of the Internet of Things and social network, in this paper, we propose a preliminary model of learning-oriented social network. It targets on inquiry learning and makes use of the Internet of Things. Specifically, in order to accomplish the purpose of inquiry learning by observing the real world, our model adopts advanced technology to uniquely mark research objects, uses wireless sensors to measure the parameters of research objects, and takes advantage of the description and discussion of social network to explore the changes of research objects. At the end of this paper, we come up with the organization pattern and software structure of this kind of social network and also put forward the method of implementing inquiry learning based on this model.