Using Interactive E-Books in Elementary School Origami Activities: Analysis of Learning Effect, Learning Motivation, and Cognitive Load

Abstract

Origami is not only a kind of lifelization game and art but also a kind of effective hand and brain skill training and learning activity. The origami learning activity can effectively cultivate students' ability to develop spatial visualization and can help elementary school students transform the graphic representation of the plane into the visualization ability of three-dimensional object of solid figure. The process of operating origami through tablet's interactive e-book can be used to train elementary school students' folding and unfolding ability, their concept for the thinking in three-dimensional space as well as the cognitive ability for shapes, so as to reduce their cognitive load. This research took the third grade elementary school students as the subjects, and applied the dynamic visual feedback process of origami animation and interactive e-book to conduct the teaching experiment. The research results are as follows: (1) The elementary school students who apply the e-book cooperative learning teaching have the significantly better origami learning effectiveness than those using the generally traditional cooperative learning teaching. (2) In origami learning activity, the elementary school students' learning motivation achieves the significant difference and the e-book cooperative learning teaching is superior to the generally traditional cooperative learning teaching in learning motivation. (3) The e-book cooperative learning teaching can make the elementary school students reduce their cognitive load during their learning of origami.