Foster articulation by having students build testable artifacts and explain ideas to other students¶

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Description¶

Articulation means "forcing students to explain and think about what they are doing i.e. making their tacit knowledge explicit." The paper identifies two computer levers: students can "build their theories or ideas into artifacts that can be tested and revised," with fellow students challenging limitations of those theories, and computers can provide tools and settings where students articulate ideas to other students. Forcing articulation generalizes knowledge from a particular context so it can be used in other circumstances, and articulated strategies can be compared across contexts.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Computational environments in which student-built theories can be tested and revised, and settings where students explain ideas to peers

Constraints¶

• Computational articulation requires even more explicitness than the articulation teachers typically encourage in schools

Target Learners¶

• School students, including those wiring robots, programming in Logo, or building adventure games

Target Learning Goals¶

• Making tacit knowledge explicit and generalizing it for use in other circumstances

Affordances¶

• Cognitive Apprenticeship Technology Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Peer Discussion
• Summarizing
• Probing Questions

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Collins, Allan. (1988). Cognitive Apprenticeship and Instructional Technology. Technical Report. BBN Report No. 6899, BBN Labs, Inc. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED331465