BE COOL! digital learning environment

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 qualitative), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

BE COOL! is a digital learning environment developed by Eysink and colleagues for primary-school inquiry learning, providing learner workspaces, group assignments, resources, self-regulation prompts, and teacher monitoring and feedback tools.

Components

• BE COOL! digital learning environment with personal learner and teacher sections: BE COOL! is a digital learning environment implementing the ability-adjusted jigsaw method for a seven-week moon-house lesson series in grades 4–6. Children log into a personal learning environment showing the learning-by-design steps and group members; inquiry assignments include learning goals with self-judgment before and reflection after, Resources and Help tabs, and a core assignment of six core questions per topic. A teacher section enables registration and grouping (using CITO scores and the Dutch Digital Action Protocol for Giftedness), monitoring of progress via five status symbols, and feedback pages with a response model and rating options; a teacher manual provides technical, practical, and worksheet information. (Tessa H. S. Eysink et al. (2020))

Claims

• A needs assessment with 14 teachers yielded eight main design issues for the BE COOL! learning environment, from curriculum fit to teacher monitoring and a teacher manual [+M]
• In a pilot with 155 graders 4–6, children were overwhelmed by a large non-structured set of inquiry assignments and lacked planning skills, leading to a reduced, predefined-schedule assignment set [+M]

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Key Sources

• Tessa H. S. Eysink, Alieke M. van Dijk, Ton de Jong. (2020). BE COOL! a digital learning environment to challenge and socially include gifted learners. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09754-9

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title	BE COOL! digital learning environment
description	BE COOL!
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