Grade 5 students can sustain productive knowledge-building collaboration over a whole school year with a facilitative rather than guiding teacher¶
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q2 i? In a year-long Grade 5 knowledge-building project using Knowledge Forum and Idea Thread Mapper, about 20 students maintained productive collaboration with the teacher remaining in a facilitative role. → Peter Reimann 2021
Evidence¶
Peter Reimann 2021¶
Peter Reimann. (2021). Socio-technical configurations for productive talk. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn (2021) 16:301–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-021-09354-6
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Whole-school-year case study of about 20 Grade 5 students working on the human body with Knowledge Forum extended by Idea Thread Mapper, combining classroom observations, video-recorded metacognitive meetings, log-file, qualitative and social-network analyses with dynamically student-formed groups. The article's remark is an authors' evaluative interpretation of this design, not a comparative test.
"It is remarkable that students so young can maintain productive collaboration over such an extended period, with the teacher remaining in a facilitative rather than guiding role."
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Grade 5 students can sustain productive knowledge-building collaboration over a whole school year with a facilitative rather than guiding teacher |
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Grade 5 students can sustain productive knowledge-building collaboration over a whole school year with a facilitative rather than guiding teacher |
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