The social network Edmodo (see Figure 2), was used as a learning communication platform to support the students’ learning at the individual, group and whole-class levels both inside and outside the classroom. Inside the digital classroom, each student was given a mobile computing device comprising a tablet PC with Internet connectivity and an embedded camera. The seamless learning environment comprised digital technologies that allowed students to access learning resources and interact with peers in inquiry-based learning. The teacher provided pedagogical support in implementing the 5E model and five instructional principles for inquiry-based learning. This study took place in a seamless learning environment. In the second session, the teacher chose one of his lessons to elaborate how he would conduct it using instructional principles, and discussed his pedagogical design with the researchers. The researchers then asked the teacher to reflect and pose questions. In the first session, the researchers prompted and discussed the inquiry-based learning model and five instructional principles with the teacher using PowerPoint slides. the beginning of the study, the teacher received two 1.5-hour training sessions from two researchers.
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