Thinking Together approach with sentence openers to prepare primary students for wiki collaboration¶

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Description¶

The project's first phase used the Thinking Together approach: in three face-to-face sessions students set up and reflected upon ground rules for effective communication, and each received a sheet with five kinds of sentence openers — giving information, asking for another's point of view, expressing disagreement, expressing agreement, and giving reasons and summarising. The openers were also displayed for reference during wiki discussions in the negotiation space, to support collaborative talk modelled on Exploratory Talk.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Face-to-face preparation sessions before wiki work
• Sentence-opener reference sheets available during wiki discussions

Constraints¶

• The approach was implemented with 9-10-year-olds in a science writing project; the article reports the wiki engine's encyclopaedic orientation may have shaped what students considered appropriate content

Target Learners¶

• primary education students (9-10 years old)

Target Learning Goals¶

• collaborative talk
• exploratory talk
• collaborative writing

Affordances¶

• Dialogic Space Intersubjectivity Wiki Framework

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Pifarré, M. & Kleine Staarman, J. (2011). Wiki-supported collaborative learning in primary education: How a dialogic space is created for thinking together. International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 6(2), 187-205. https://www.springer.com/journal/11412